Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center

Majority of staff irresponsibly gossips about patients and ridicules them after hours. Not friendly. Treats patients like they’re unintelligent and disturbed. Unsafe and unwelcoming environment for those trying to seek mental health help. Dirty environment. Staff does not listen to patients nutritional health needs. While I was there I told them that I was very strictly a vegetarian. They continued to give me meat based meals and didn’t care. Which made me extremely ill. After I left the facility I was ill for over a month because of lack of nutrition.
I had friends visit me while I was in this facility and they stated that they felt uncomfortable and unwelcome by the staff and environment. Upon leaving, the staff did not release all of my belongings to me and when I tried to contact them, they claimed they had given them all to me. The staff also relentlessly tried to convince my friends and family that I needed to stay beyond the 72 hour hold. Which I understand is for legal reasons, but they called my family persistently throughout my last day and tried to sway their decision to let me go home. Horrible atmosphere.

The beds were just old & broken hospital beds, the doctor didn’t truly make sure that you were mentally feeling better. Small facility. Not much to do other than smoke, or watch TV. You have to wait a few days to see the therapist. Not much room to go outside, other than if you were going out to smoke. If you go to the Outpatient Program, it just feels like school, it doesn’t equip to your individual needs. The medication they give you, makes you feel like a zombie. Just a bad place in general.

This establishment does not get enough funding. It is terrible. It is not effective. A friend I met in mental health therapy committed suicide. There isn’t enough money put into this place for it to work. IT DOES NOT WORK.

Its a nice clean facility. The first time I dropped my husband off he got great care and was well taken care of. They were so willing to help and kept his withdrawal symptoms under control and he says he loves the food. He will sometimes say he misses the food at rehab. He then checked in for a second time… And he has a horrible experience. No one cared they had less staff because they had less patients. They were just giving him meds and not explaining what it was that he was getting and why they were giving it to him. The physician the first time around was great and very attentive. The second physician the second time around was worse. Didn’t care to see him everyday and didn’t listen to his concerns. He claimed he would help and give prescription for after care meds and upon day of release the dr refused to give him the meds. A horrible place to bring your loved ones. I don’t trust a lot of physicians or nurses to take care of him properly but they did take great care of him and his needs with his walking condition. The second time around was horrible and they didn’t do anything for him. Be cautious when going here and be very hands on with your loved ones care. Alway be in the know and don’t leave them to do it all. Sometimes you have to follow your gut and when you feel you know they are wrong say it and let t be known. You are your loved ones advocate in a place like this. This should be a last resort type of rehab.

Got a lot of misinformation regarding the youth outpatient program. Asked 3 different people about it and got three different responses. Basically to make a long story short based on wrong information given I sat through an hour evaluation with my child for no reason. It was a waste of time and I did let a manager know I was given false information.

Don’t take anyone here that you care about. They fill you full of drugs. Sedate you till your numb and can’t talk right. They hold you down and force the medication causing you more trauma than you came in with. They don’t answer the phones. they put you on hold forever. The staff is rude and mean to the patients. They do not understand anything but their narrow minded Christian ways. Everyone else is the devil to them so they drug him up and keep the money. please stay away from this place if you love your family. Try the healing sanctuary of OC or something better. I wish I would have taken her there but it is to late…

People beware. 14 years ago we came for help with 2 of my 4 children. the 2 children i had custody of for the first 15 years of their lives. Loma linda helped the bio mother get custody leaving my children to live on their own at a camp. This. resulting in my son rebelling and ended up in prison all of his adult life. Please people reconsider going to this establishment.

After 3 serious bouts with depression both very dark and almost suicidal. I checked my self in.
At first i was very scard and skeptical.
After getting my meds right (and spending 3 days locked up with some REALLY mental people), they got my meds to the point where i could think clearly.
Then i was enrolled in a 6 week program (partial hospitalization). At first i was very skeptical and hostile towards the process (they did not explain it was based on science and research by DR Burns and the Feeling Good Handbook and Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (which by the way your should read if your having depression and anxiety problems).
I decided i did not want to be sick any more and started to embrace the program. Some of the reviews above are true. It may not work for everyone.
I was ready. and I was done with having problems. I WANTED A SOLUTION and I WANTED TO GET FIXED /​CURED… It took work on my part. I did the exercises and followed the program.
I am not 100% cured yet however I have skills to deal with it and am functioning now.
Thank You LLBMC.
Also, I must add that the staff (overall) was very caring. The doctors can seem overworked and you have to repeat your store over and over, however they see 500 patients a week and really know their meds (you psychiatrist says try this and let me know. i went through that for years).

I thought I got over my grudge over this place since its been over 10 years since I was placed here by my doctor worst part is me being a minor 15 years old. I’m so bitter until to this day. I get nightmares about getting wheeled in here and everything is confined. Doors are magnetized so leaving is not an option. My first night was the worst. I remember being dragged into a padded room at 3am because one of the people who was interviewing me decided it was best to put me in there. I remember being scared and I wanted to go home. They injected something on my butt region and I was not feeling right. I was really dizzy but I still remember it vividly. There were other kids there ranging from 14 to 17. I was beaten by one of their staff who was with me inside my own room. I don’t know why he punched me on the face really hard. He told me I started it but I never laid a hand on him. I was so afraid to tell anyone about it because he threatened he will make me stayed there longer. Which I realized was becoming a reality. I was there for 2 weeks. I gained weight there because of the drugs that I was being forced to take. I tried my best not to swallow the pills. Depakote and some other pills I forgot the name. The lady in charge of the drugs made sure I took them or else I would get punished. I stlll remember the faces of those who came in and left before me. Some stayed for only 4 days. I still have contact with one of them who was there. When I got discharged I was so upset. They told me they made a mistake for prolonging my stay. I’m still shocked at what they said. They told me «even monkeys fall off trees» These are the same people who were pumping drugs in my system. I really wanted to push for a lawsuit but I just didn’t want nothing to do with them. Now I’m 27 years old I’m speaking out to warn parents not to sign the dotted line. You will regret it… I feel so betrayed by my own parents. I would never put kids here.

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If you get this hospital, if you aren’t rich, be very grateful! I went to canyon ridge a month after this one and that is the worst institution ever. Now the other reviewer said they don’t think things changed, i was there only 2 years after her, in 2006, and t had changed. The staff were nice, i actually really liked the food, the chaplain and group ‘church’ services are now optional, you can choose to just sleep in on sunday, there is no track that you get put on, everyone is in group together, you are on a board with points for behavior, which basically the only thing that you get to do that is different is eat from the cafeteria instead of a tray brought to you. I love the staff, though i don’t remember names, there was the main guy who is Indian and is pretty funny and nice. I don’t know that i got full help or anything but it was an okay experience, they kept me from hurting or killing myself, and the place was very well organized with everything they do, mind you i went there as a teen there’s a downstairs adult section and i can’t say how that one is.