Riverview Behavioral Health

Mar 18th, 2024

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Mar 10th, 2024

I have been working here for three years and have witnessed amazing changes in several patients. The therapeutic improvements are incredible and are getting better everyday. There are always challenges, but this team really has a passion for the work.
Mar 5th, 2024

Riverview Behavioral Health Hospital is the best place I have ever been to. The staff was very caring and helpful when I needed help. The food is delicious, and the staff is very nice when serving me. Although I am not a smoker; they do allow those who are a safe place to go if you are. I hope I never have to return but would come back here if I had to.
Mar 1st, 2024

I was sent here about eight years ago and still to this day I am traumatized about the things that happened to me here. I was verbally abused. I was not allowed to go outside the entire time I stayed despite there being a playground and areas for us to go outside, nor were any of the other people in my unit allowed to go outside the whole time I stayed. I was only allowed one phone call right before I left the facility, and it was to call home. In the group activities we were forced to open up about traumatizing experiences and if we didnt we were sent to our rooms with no contact with anyone and sometimes not allowed to eat until the next day. I was given meds that I had no idea what they were, I was only taking birth control upon coming to Riverview. I had to take several medications at this facility without talking to a doctor, that made me feel very weird while I was not told what they were. I urinated myself one night because of the medication and was forced to wear paper clothes for three days because they would not let me wash the only pair of pants that they had allowed me to wear from what my mom had brought me. I had people come into my room at random times throughout the night and wake me up at 2, 3, 4am to draw blood, give me more medication or to ask me odd questions. I wasnt given soap when I took showers or toothpaste when I brushed my teeth, and being in a mixed unit kids would go into each others showers and have sex with each other. Kids would have mental break downs at the table in the main room where we all stayed and staff would only yell at them and yell at other patients to not talk to them or they would be in trouble. The staff would never help you and if anything they would make every situation worse. It was best not to talk to the staff if at all possible. I was told I was going to have a therapist and a doctor contact me the day I arrived and wasnt contacted by either of them, only a therapist the day that I had left, three months later. I was placed in a class for schooling that was three grades above my grade level before coming to this place. After being out of this place for eight years there are a lot of things I dont remember. But the things I do remember still traumatize me to this day nearly everyday. Do NOT send your children or anyone you care about here. They will not receive the help or care they deserve.
Mar 18th, 2024