do not go to this place or send your child here. this place made me end up in the emergency room because they put me on lithium and seroquel at the same time. they knew that i was having issues at home but they never believed me. thought i was crazy and pumped me up with antipsychotics. i ended up in the ER the night after i took lithium. i was on the hotline with them and they gave me a packet on bermada or something like a brain issue. i was having heart palpitations and felt like i was about have seizures. i was panicking on the phone while they were so insensitive getting mad at me over the phone when i am the one asking for help as i thought i was going to die that night. i was having seizures and after that i asked to use the bathroom and mather hospital tried to send me to the psych room before you get admitted after i was having seizures in the ER for the medication they put me on. when i told them why am i even here i was just in the ER the night before. they had me sitting there eating and waiting as if i was about to go to the psychiatric. of course at that point they let me go home. i walked from mather hospital to my home in miller place because that’s how much i do not trust this place. i walked home from there because i was afraid of them and wanted to be away from there as soon as possible. partial told my mom to admit me when my mom was bringing me on the way to partial. as my mom was bringing me she tried to drag me pulling me by my arms out of the car forcing me to get admitted. when two doctors noticed they had me and my mom separated as if they were going to help me out considering she was trying to physically pull me out of the car against my will. mather partial told everyone i refused the covid test which is a lie. they never told me i was exposed to covid. had everyone from partial take the covid test when i didn’t even know i had covid until they admitted me there in a bedroom that i wasn’t allowed to leave in. they never informed me to take a covid test while everyone else knew and took a test. i was the only one who got admitted not knowing i had covid until after the fact. when i got discharged i was still having seizures. i called partial and asked them to please change my medication because i fell and hit my head on the bathroom tile while having a seizure on the medication they were putting me on in the hospital. they called the ambulance on me when i told them i refuse to do that. when the ambulance showed up i signed off that i will not go to the ER because i just got out of the psychiatric and i am supposed to quarantine until the next week. they took my blood pressure and had me sign off that i refuse treatment because thats how scared i was of mather partial. i am warning you do not come here or send your kid here and do not trust any of these doctors. im telling you because of mather even if i ever got a broken arm i wouldn’t go to the ER that’s how much i dont trust them. this hospital needs to be investigated. i go to well life network and have been better ever since. go to well life network in coram instead. don’t go anywhere near this place i am warning you they won’t help you. because of them i dont trust any doctors besides my doctor at well life who took me off the medications i did not need in my body in the first place. mather diagnosed me with bipolar. in reality i have borderline personality disorder and autism i used to go to DDI for it, also with stuff going on at home at the same time. i will get a new diagnosis as my doctor gets to know me more. however she wouldn’t have taken me off the unnecessary medication if she thought what i was saying wasn’t true because she is a doctor. i am not sure if autism is still on my child records or they changed it over time. either way the system has failed me for not recognizing that i am on the spectrum. do not go here unless you want to have trauma over doctors for the rest of your life. go to well life network instead.

Partial is an absolutely horrible program that triggers many patients.

When were you there?
– I’ve been there 3 times. The first time for 3 weeks back in 2015. The second time for 3 months in 2016. The third time for 3 days (I AMA’d) in 2017.
How many patients on average?
– 8-10
Does it treat both males and females? If so, is treatment separate or combined?
– Males and Females together
How often do you see a medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist (therapist), nutritionist, etc?
-Psychiatrist once a week, RD once a week, You do not see a medical doctor, and therapist 1-2 times a week
What is the staff ratio to patients?
– There is usually all the therapists and RD there at a time but one staff at a time in groups and meals
What sort of therapies are used? (DBT, CBT, EMDR) etc?
– DBT and CBT mainly
Describe the average day:
– IOP is 4-7 and PHP is either 12-7 or 1-7 depending on whether or not you have lunch there (its optional and up to the treatment team)
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 group
2:00 group
3:00 snack for those on weight gain
4:00 group
5:00 Dinner
6:00 group
*** This was roughly the schedule when I was there last
What were meals like?
-Boring and sometimes awkward. A lot of people there used behaviors at the table and tried to hide food and it was really frustrating to watch. There are tables in a square shape and adolescents are on one side and adults on the other
What sorts of food were available or served?
– For Lunch you picked from a turkey sandwich, PB&J, roast beef, cheese sandwich, egg salad, chicken salad, tuna salad
– It was hospital food and you picked from a menu; the food isn;t great but it is hospital food
– A variety of sandwiches, veggie burgers, pasta, fish, meat, rice and bean dishes
– there is always a daily special, but other than that there is a set menu
– you have a side salad or veggie with every meal
-you always have some sort of fruit or dessert
– milk/soy milk/juice (a caloric beverage) comes with the meal
Did they supplement? How did that system work?
– If you didn’t finish you were given ensure
– it’s pretty simple
What is the policy of not complying with meals?
– Answered above
Are you able to be a vegetarian?
What privileges are allowed?
Does it work on a level system?
How do you earn privileges?
What sort of groups do they have?
– medical group (you basically learn about the medications or medical consequences of EDs)
– Body image group
– Yoga group
– CBT/DBT
-Art therapy group
-Nutrition group
-Goal setting group
-group Therapy- adolescents and adults are separated for this group)
What was your favorite group?
– Art therapy and group therapy
What did you like the most?
– UHHHH nothing in specific. Probably just the structure it provided for me
What did you like the least?
-The main nurse: she’s NOT kind or compassionate and kind of a bitch. She also has no filter and speaks her mind. It is a hospital based program so it’s kind of cold and depressing..
– the food isn’t good
– The RD also sucks, she let me lose weight for weeks and didn’t raise my meal plan and then all of the sudden recommended a higher level of care (They may have a new one I’m not sure)
Would you recommend this program?
– If you need structure and you’re desperate
– Also if you want “no frills” treatment
What level of activity or exercise was allowed?
– up to therapist and RD
What did people do on weekends?
-NA
Do you get to know your weight?
– nope
How fast is the weight gain process?
-Unsure- but it is slow
What was the average length of stay?
– I’ve seen people be there a month and then I’ve seen people be there 8 months. So it widely varies
What was the average age range?
– I’ve seen as young as 12/13 to as old as 80
How do visits/phone calls work?
-NA
What is the electronics policy? (ex: cell phones, iPods, Kindle, laptop, tablets)
-adolescents have to hand in their phones before program starts; adults get to keep them
Are you able to go out on passes?
NA
What kind of aftercare do they provide? Do they help you set up an outpatient treatment team?
– They step you down from PHP (if you start there) to their IOP and then they help you set up and outpatient team
Are there any resources for people who come from out of state/country?
– Not sure. They provide transportation for adolescents who have trouble getting there and back though
Other?
– Honestly the program is what you make of it. When I left after 3 months I was in a good place and stayed out of treatment for a year (the longest span of time i’ve stayed out of treatment before). I AMA’ed in 2017 because I came out of center for discovery PHP and I was in a really good place and Mather was just so depressing it was weighing me down and I didn’t need the negativity
– I’m actually in the process of going into PHP again because I am struggling and it is the only option near where I live- unless I want to commute into NYC (which I don’t because it is expensive)