Centennial Peaks Hospital

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Friday, December 25, 2015

MORE SCARY REVIEWS ABOUT CPH


FROM THESE REVIEWS LOCATED ON THIS WEBSITE  YOU CAN SEE THERE IS CLEARLY AN ENDEMIC PROBLEM.

Editorial review from Citysearch 2/17/2015

This hospital is very poorly functioning. I've been here a total of four times, and all of my expeirences had been great until my last one. My doctor was absolutely rude and insulting. My social worker was constantly threatening me to send me to the State Hospital, despite her knowledge of there being no open beds there. The charge nurse turned everything into a power struggle. I'm not saying that I was perfect in this situation, because I wasnt. I was in a very tough place in my life and I'm certain that I was difficult to handle. However, if you are going to choose to work in a PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL with ADOLECENTS, please please please, learn some common courtesy. While here, I was put on a ""desk program"" in which, I had to sit at a table, doing packets while everyone else was in group. Not only is isolation a trigger, but I voiced this several times. My doctor didn't seem to care too much and would not change my medication, despite my suicidal thinking getting worse. She seemed to think everything was a joke. And don't get me wrong, a few of the staff were actually very nice, but a majority of the staff members made my stay a living hell. I left here feeling worse than I did before admission. As far as the three previous hospitalizations here, they gradually got worse, however, Dr.Carlson is amazing and helped me greatly. more


Editorial review from Citysearch 1/27/2015

This place is awful. Don't go there if you know what's up. more


Editorial review from Citysearch 1/7/2015

I'm considering going for detox....should I not it sounds bad there more


Editorial review from Citysearch 9/12/2014

This facility is scary. It is horrific in every way you can imagine. If you or your loved one is considering a mental health facility, I would recommend going somewhere else. The doctors are cold and callous and do not care about the betterment of the patients. They are concerned only with getting patients in and out in order to make money. I would stay away, period! more


Editorial review from Citysearch 11/16/2013

Minus 10 Stars! This place uses unethical tactics with medication and food combinations that induce panic attacks for use in screening for those who do not have a panic response. The air conditioning in this facility is flat out torturous. All of the reviews that tell you to stay away from here line up exactly with my experience here. This place is horrible!! more


TERRIBLE 9/20/2013

It was just like "One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest..." Is there a review system that goes lower than 1?? These people were apathetic for the most part, withe exception of a few. My loved one was very ill while there, but staff continually said she was lying. This caused us to simply to BEG THEM to take her to a REAL medical establishment. She was very ill and had to get medical intervention in an ER after CPH simply dropped her off at the ER up the road, then said she was discharged for good from CP. They overtly tried to hurt my loved one's reputation amongst staff, and they obliterated trust. Centennial Peaks could have remedied this themselves had they treated my wife 4 days earlier when she told them she was ill. HOW can you NOT believe a person when she tells you she is sick and not treat her or at least find someone who can and will??!! Their rate is flat, so if someone needs extra medical attention, they are shamed and told they are asking too much (or simply told NO-- We will NOT more


Editorial review from Citysearch 9/20/2013

As a family member, going in there was just like ""One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest..."" Is there a review system that goes lower than 1?? These people were apathetic for the most part, withe exception of a few. My loved one was very ill while there, but staff continually said she was lying. This caused us to simply to BEG THEM to take her to a REAL medical establishment. She was very ill and had to get medical intervention in an ER after CPH simply dropped her off at the ER up the road, then said she was discharged for good from CP. They overtly tried to hurt my loved one's reputation among staff, and they obliterated trust. Centennial Peaks could have remedied this themselves had they treated my wife 4 days earlier when she told them she was ill. HOW can you NOT believe a person when she tells you she is sick and not treat her or at least find someone who can and will??!! Their rate is flat, so if someone needs extra medical attention, they are shamed and told they are asking too much (or simply told NO-- We will NOT get treatment for you. Other review sites as well as DORA need to hear about this atrocious place more


Editorial review from Citysearch 12/4/2012

This place is an absolute insult to the mental health community. I knew a person who recieved services there, if that's what you want to call it, and she was treated with such disrespect and judement by so called staff, I don't even know why they are in this profession if all they are going to do is judge people, take away their basic civil rights, outright lying to not only my friend but wouldn't even let her have an extra blanket. They punish patients for not participating in group therapy sessions by making them stay an extra day, involuntarily, everytime they choose not to particiapte they get another day added, what kinda help is that, sounds like punishment to me!.Absolutely discussting treatment!!! I wouldn't send my dog here. This place denied my friend her basic rights for visitors, not recieving her mail, and very vindictive behavior by staff members who did not like her. What!! I thought mental health was suppose to be a non-judgemental environment, what a crock, this place should be shut down without a doubt. They treat patients as if they are in jail not a care facility. Basic things are taken away at the staff's leisure, that is a denial that is not their right to take away, absoutely appalling. Do not send your loved one's there if you want true help, this place is not it for sure. They do not treat people with dignity or respect, the very foundation that mental health care is suppose to be based on. My friends' doctor did not listen to her, put her on all kinds of drugs and did not addresss the very issue she was there for, severe depression, this place made her more depressed. After a 72 hr hold they put my friend on a 90 day hold and stripped her rights away. They would not allow her wife to have any info about her, even though she was on legal paperwork designating so, she was lied to countless times by various so called case workers, nurses, doctors, that her spouse would be contacted but never was and would not give her the patient number, which is clearly stated on their website, to allow her to have visitors, they would get mad at her everytime she asked about it and acted like they knew nothing about it and it's in their website, that's discrimination. I have read many reviews of this hospital and none of it is good. Wake up people this place is a jail not a place to get help!! more


Editorial review from Citysearch 10/18/2012

This facility is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. Avoid it at all costs. I have to believe that anywhere would be a better choice than this facility. Rude, standoffish, generally unresponsive staff members run this facility utilizing threats and intimidation to force compliance on its patients. They have outright DENIED needed medication to patients without explanation, and get indignant when you as a family member want to question their methodology. more


Editorial review from Citysearch 9/21/2012

Awful, truly awful. At a time when I was angry and hurt, I needed compassion. What I got was rude, standoffish staff members who made empty threats in an effort to have compliance. If you need inpatient psychiatric care, go to West Pines or Porter Adventist. There, you will find a caring and engaged staff. There is not one positive thing I can think of for this place. more


MINUS 5 STARS 12/23/2011

If you have the resources and transportation to bring your loved one to another facility do it!!!! The headline on the brochure brags about being encouraging of family participation, but they only allow visiting for 1 hr of the day. You don't get to talk to a Dr unless you absolutely insist on it. Want to get a return phone call from a social worker-forget it! They had a blaring TV playing heavy metal music in the intensive treatment unit, pt urinating themselves and staff ignoring it, communication is non-existent, I could go on and on. After 14 yrs of working in health care as an RN this is by far the absolute worse care I've ever seen. I give them minus 5 stars. more


Terrible treatment and care 12/7/2011

Almost every professional I spoke with or encountered at this facility was rude. The doctors that I saw for a limited interview made a very extreme diagnosis that has sense been refuted by every mental health professional I've seen. I went in here for suicide watch and was treated like a piece of dirt. I've sense made it to a 12 step recovery program and am seeing mental health professionals for a more accurate diagnosis. People with addiction and suicide problems have enough experience feeling like crap, they don't need to receive rude an arrogant care by an extremely judgmental staff. After looking at the size of my bill for the 72 hours I was here, I'd say this place is a giant money scam. With little attention paid to what a patient has to say, sticking ridiculous diagnosis on everyone and charging way to much money for poor care, poor food and overall poor facility. I'm a great-full recovering addict, and this place has absolutely nothing to do with that process more


Intake Process was Terrible 3/6/2011

We had a very bad experience here at a time when help was needed. The evaluator was not paying attention, asked questions three times (simple things, like what is your regular doctor's name?) and made a determination based on a sitation that she made worse due to her impatience and general bad attitude. more


Thursday, December 24, 2015

HUMAN DIGNITY DENIED AT CENTENNIAL PEAKS

Respect, Empathy and Personal Responsibility

A remark made at the nursing station while I witnessed a poor woman who had been starving for 20 hours while waiting for ECT encapsulates another problem. “Oh I know what you’re going through,” smiled the young woman at the counter, “I’m hungry too.“No, you do not”, was my remark. “You may be missing lunch. This patient feels like she is starving to death” (the actual wording I do not fully remember.) Taken as a whole, aside from the occasional rudeness, the staff was generally polite and friendly but not compassionate. The CEO of Centennial can rejoice that she  could not have found a more loyal set of employees who (from the very bottom to the top of the totem poll) will consistently stick to the rules and be less inclined to find solutions that satisfy patient and said rules and will be guaranteed to pass the buck, abstaining from any desire to take individual responsibility for the well-being of the human being standing before them. In the upper levels,
she can be confident that those staff will generally not answer patient questions nor let them finish speaking when they are making an important point. One high level person even told me, “I wish I were as compassionate and open as you” — this person’s favorite word to me otherwise was “denied.”

 Even a minor example shows a patent unwillingness to go the extra inch on the part of the staff I knew for a fact that there was some juice in the back room when I asked for some. But the young female insisted there was no juice. When I reminded her that I had been given said juice by another staff worker not long before, only then did she bother to look and indeed there was juice. I received no apology.

As an empath, I can entirely understand the stress of the nursing station. Moreover, in 1990 I spent over 100 hours volunteering in a Nursing home and I have served a patient advocate on numerous occasions, including when my beloved teacher John Strugnell was recovering from a stroke. I understand the hierarchy, sociology and anthropology involved. I know that the staff are ever concerned with safety and indeed are in fact concerned with patient well-being, up to a point. They have to make quick and sometimes cold decisions to keep things running smoothly and safely. They have to be very careful with the rules for all sorts of reasons, not simply to keep their jobs. For this reason, I do not blame the individual staff members so much as I blame the ethos of the institution which is thoroughly rotten.


Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Some Chickens in Boulder Have it Better -- Lack of Fresh Air for Non-Smokers


At Centennial Peaks it is hard for non-smokers to get fresh air!

I do not think it is necessary to demonstrate the importance of fresh air and natural sunlight for anyone’s health and particularly for patients with psychiatric challenges. European sanitariums and even the famous MacLean hospital in Massachusetts use nature as healing. However, just as with prison inmates, patients do not have full privileges initially.[1]

Until the patient has seen a doctor, they are not allowed outside to the courtyard with the basketball court. And even so this access is highly limited (once a day it seemed) in comparison with the the number of times in which smokers are permitted outside during the numerous smoke breaks (at least four times, perhaps even more).[2] As a non-smoker with sensitive lungs, if I had not seen a doctor or had missed gym time, I had no other recourse to obtain fresh air except when it is clouded with smoke. As I explained this to a staff member with long smooth dark hair she sharply told me, “You do have a choice.” A choice between no fresh air and polluted air? I also begged staff to permit me a scant two minutes of fresh air before the smokers came in and this was summarily denied.





[1] On the sociology of the psychiatric ward, Erving Goffman,. Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Aldine Transaction, 1968.)
[2] The frequency of these smoke breaks, far greater than I have witnessed in other impatient units, combined with the unit actually supplying cigarettes is rather curious. It remains shocking that the unit is happy to supply a deadly drug yet as will be seen shortly, will deny me my lithium.