Reviews of Fairview Psychiatry Clinic (Hospital)

Abby Sassy

I only have been admitted once to behavioral pediatric unit at the University of Minnesota fairview riverside hospital. The staff was so awesome.

Nathan Fryzek

This is the only psychiatric hospital I've been to inpatient, so I don't have much to compare it to. For inpatient only one staff member ever did anything inappropriate to me. And since there were probably 30 staff I interacted with, I have to say I think that's about as good as you're gonna get. Outpatient psychiatrists I had seen kept having me try these new unapproved medications which did absolutely nothing for me or gave me life threatening side effects. At this hospital, however, they went straight to the tried and true medications for my disorder which ended up helping me significantly within three days of taking them. The psych associates and some nurses working there didn't seem to know much of anything about mental illness (which is okay because they were mostly just there to monitor and keep an eye on everyone). They would often try to convince me to get better, as if my illness wasn't physical in my brain. The pain was so bad that I spent the whole time trying to think of ways to make it stop via death, and there trying to convince me to get better was more than offensive. It would be like telling someone who just got shot to just get over it and get better. With all this being said, the important part, protecting me from myself and getting me on good medications were done well.