Reviews of MTMHI (Psychiatrist)

Joan K

An absolute hell hole. I have worked in the Mental Health/Social service field for about 50 years off and on. I was a patient at this facility 10 years ago and 7 years before that. The horrors I experienced and witnessed are unimaginable. I could not self advocate as I was so fragile and depressed, and the PTSD afterwards rendered me almost totally helpless. I so much better now. My nightmare will not be in vain. The direct physical and psychogical abuse I saw and experienced there should not have to be experienced by any human or animal. It was at the hands of direct staff. I was beld down and choked.I was hoping it had gotten better. I see from scanning the reviews, It has not. I now work with people who sometimes come from tbere. This story has to be told. It can no longer be swept under the rug. I refuse to accept that this happened to me for no reason. I will tell my story, for the healing of all.

Jeremy Logue

IT'S MAKES BETTER PEOPLE'S LIFE EASY...............

Crystal allison

I was there for 5 days in May. I hated it there. Don't want to ever be put there again!

TKO TK

This is an extremely scary place

David Leonard

This is David's wife he is there now not even 4 hours in there he is calling asking me to get him out. He signed his self into vandy Friday this is the only place that has a bed is what they say. He hates it and said that place is not going to help him at all. It's going to make him worse he's in unit I and it's BAD. He's worse off now after being there 12 hours than he was when he went in. I'm trying my damest to get him transformed to some where that will help him besides this place that's hurting him

Pamela Evans

This place is real horriable i have a son there and its really horriable I dont advise anyone to send anybody there for treatment I would shop around first before I would leave anybody there they need to be investigated the whole hospital staff no good it's very few

Kc Edwards

One of the best mental health facilities in Middle Tennessee.

Shannel E

This place is terrible. Patients can’t receive phone calls and only have two times a day they can call out. They’re treating them like they’re in jail. I couldn’t speak to my mother while she was in there. I live in a different state and they can’t make out of town calls. They don’t give them full check ups. She had blood work done and they didn’t check for everything. They didn’t diagnose her or give her a proper evaluation. I can imagine what else goes on in there. The counselor sounds incompetent. The receptionist are rude and give you the run around. Seems like the people that works there are more mental then the patients. Please don’t put your loved ones in here and if they’re in there try your best to get them out. Hopefully this place gets shut down.

Sean Thompson

F unit as awesome

Roya Behinain

Appreciate all the care and service MTMHI gave my sister. Give 5 star to dr. Don Elazar

andie thomas

This place helps so much and the staff are amazing.

Jenna Johnson

The staff is physically abusive and highly contributed to 2015 being the worst year of my life. I tried and failed to end my life, and literally all they did was remind me every second of every day I was there about how I wished it would've worked. I can't even bring myself, mentally back there right now, but just know that the actual bedrooms don't have cameras, and the staff knows that and uses that. They do scary, scary things to patients, I guess to try and make sure they never get to leave. I got out. I GOT OUT. and that's what reassured me that I'm strong. I'm stronger than I ever realized I was because, somehow, I got out of that hell. By the time I got out though, I could no longer even form words, verbally. I could form thoughts, but not words. Not any more. I had to actually write down everything that happened to me there and check myself into a different place that actually helped and turned my life around. That place was Rolling Hills in Franklin. If you care about yourself or your friends or family, and they need mental help, steer clear of this place. They will not help. Not in the least!

Cameron Creste

My experience at MTMHI was a nightmare. I was placed here by St.Thomas of Rutherford after I had a suicide attempt because of my PTSD in Murfreesboro over the Holidays. I was placed in the forensic ward because it was 'the only bed available', and both hospitals and the ambulance documented me as uninsured even though I had the insured party contact them to arrange payment. Staff were discriminatory towards me as well as sexist. A patient made death threats for hours on end, threw a punch at me, and threatened to break into my home and rape me, and staff did nothing. One man attempted to break down the door to the room I was in, although thankfully another patient came to my rescue. Another two men touched themselves and pulled down their pants in front of me. One of them later ran up and down the halls naked with a bedsheet loosely wrapped around him shouting in Arabic and another language. The staff told me that they didn't have or need a translator. A staff member told me openly that he did not pay attention during trainings on addiction, and another said sensitivity/diversity training was offensive to them. I have a neurological condition, and cannot be prescribed antipsychotics without seizure or side effect risk, but was nearly injected with Haldol upon refusing to take it and they refused to contact my outpatient psychiatrist. The in-facility one stated that all patients were automatically prescribed it upon admission. This place was a series of health violations so disgusting I still am haunted by the smell. We had no toilets in the entire unit that worked for several hours, and on and off for several days, only had access to the one in the seclusion room and no showers. The food was served undercooked, including eggs, and meat, and they had no idea how to avoid allergens - they served me a gluten-free menu with crackers, and a roll listed right below the words gluten-free. I was barely able to eat without getting sick for ten days. In addition, I often was given less than 16oz of liquid a day with no way to access more because of another patient who was abusing his water privileges. I also witnessed staff teaching each other how to fudge my blood pressure and pulse even though I have a heart condition. Staff regularly got into domestic disputes with each other in front of me, which was extremely retraumatizing. I was left alone with a male patient who was making sexually explicit remarks towards me (who later attempted to break down my door) after staff rushed to tend to an outburst in another ward. Additionally, the few staff members that care for patients are underpaid and overworked, while the inconsiderate and abusive ones bully their way through. I made a complaint formally to the patient advocate. As a mental health advocate from out-of-state, I was sickened with the conditions the patients and even the staff were forced to endure. I also read, highlighted, and detailed all rules and any violations of them, as well as used my knowledge of federal law. Some staff turned their name badges around or refused to tell me them, and the clocks visible easily to patients had incorrect times, so I had to look at the clock through the office window for an accurate one or glance at staff's phones, which they were constantly on. They will violate your rights if you do not know them, so I encourage all patients and ex-patients, especially at MTMHI, to visit the ACLU's website, as well as support organizations including TMHCA, NAMI, Mad In America, PFLAG, NAACP, Centerstone, Peer Bridges, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Your best advocate is yourself in any inpatient hospitalization, but these organizations all have a good library of articles, basic info, and routes to legal services. Proceed with extreme caution in admitting oneself or loved ones to MTMHI, and be aware that it is located next to the School for the Blind and a large power line, both of which have a fence surrounding them. MTMHI, does not have one. There is a reason patients escape from here frequently. I still have nightmares and insomnia.