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Still recovering from fraud the MD lied to the judge and the judge rubber stamped the lie. Ongoing trauma discharge and memory loss from my youth. Lack of accountability and acknowledgement of harm. Ongoing cptsd flashbacks daily . Asked for trauma care and was told my insurance didn’t cover it by an embarrassed therapist. No historical healthcare intake. Had not emotionally integrated my youth yet. Three times denied disability. Administrator didn’t seem to be concerned about the fraud. Life endangering harm. Not acknowledged.
Chronic ED I’ve been at Del Amo twice. Once for the ED Unit and Once for the trauma unit. Have you looked into River Oaks ED Unit. They take Medicare. Not sure if they take vegan patients though.
Staff seem nice on the phone but this review is horrifying. This is the only Medicare facility that will treat a vegan patient without a waitlist that I can find in the US, but they have a MINIMUM weight!
Is it worth going to a med floor to stabilize for travel clearance for this program?
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2010
I just got out of Del Amo’s Trauma program on the 25th of April. I worked with the dietitian as well for ED issues. If you have the right attitude and good individual therapist this program can work wonders. But I tell you, it’s all about the work that you put into it. This program has saved my life and been there for me when I had no other options. Plus, even now being out, I have the staff to call any time I need to… they don’t hesitate to be there when you need someone to talk to. I know a lot of people have negative experiences here, and I did the first time I went inpatient in the ED unit back in 2004, but things have changed a lot. However, like I stated, they don’t force anything on you here – except finishing all meals of course – so you have to be really willing to want to change your lifestyle. Have any questions, ask away…. I’ve been there 3 times now, and yes, would return if I needed to.
I was there of May and June of both 06′ and 07′.
You start your day off by waking up between 5-8am in order to get vitals and med’s taken care of and to take showers. (The showers are nasty. Make sure you bring flip-flops being patients hoard food and puke in the showers) Around 8-8:15am you shuffle off to breakfast which isn’t in the main cafeteria but in the regular group room where your trays are brought to you. You start off with breakfast by saying affirmations or some sort of nonsense. After that you get a break and can go out to the courtyard to smoke or to walk around it if you are allowed. You have a core group about 9-9:30am and at 11am. I think it was either art therapy or some kind of role play group. Art therapy was such a joke. It was just coloring with makers that hardly even worked and tearing out pictures from ancient magazines to make collages. Note: I said “tearing” out pictures. You weren’t allowed to use scissors. Not even plastic ones so you had to tear everything out. For someone with OCD this wasn’t fun. I’m sure preschoolers have better art supplies then we had. Food and feelings at noon. Lunch is at 12:15pm. You get 45 minutes for meals. After lunch around 1pm there is a cog group or nutrition group depending on the day of the week. Note: Both times I’ve been there, there were different dietitians. They seemed to get scared off easily. They had no training in eating disorders and were clueless. Literally I ate the same thing each day I was there and wasn’t challenged besides having Mighty Shakes and Ensures for weight gain and when meals weren’t finished. Back to the typical day though…Somewhere around 2pm was another group. I forgot what it was called but you basically threw clay at a wall and to get out your anger which was necessary because the place sucked so much being there. Around 3-3:15pm was an educational group. At 5pm was dinner. 6pm core issues. 7pm I have no idea what we did. We might have had time to work on assignments and such. Around 7:30-8pm there were 12 step meetings in the hospital. If you had content from your doctor to you could go to those. They were mostly AA or NA 12 step meetings. I went to them just to get off the ED unit. Around 9pm was reflections and med’s.
I wouldn’t recommend this program. The 2nd time I was there I snuck into the nurses station and found a bottle of pills and overdosed on. Not with the intention to kill myself but with the intention to get the hell off off the ED unit. Let’s just say it worked thank God and I’m no longer welcomed back.