My heartfelt thanks, to the stalwart professionals at Salem Gastro, for kind, attentive and…read morediligent care. Having one's fecal exhaust chamber mowed like a fresh green lawn on a warm summer day, tends to place a tip of anxiety on the nubbins of ones already plagued conscious mind. Needless to say, the procedure was literally over before it began. The colonoscopy was a quick and effortless affair, with a young. but well seasoned doctor at the helm. What began as an agonized wrestle with the strict confines of my mortality, ended with a wink and a nod. You have my sword, and my axe! sincerely, Eric Richter!

Appointments take weeks even months to get , I have asked questions through there advice nurse and…read moream told it will be referred but I never hear anything back

The Oregon state hospital needs from what it sounds like it needs is to treat Their patients with…read morerespect and better care and treatment. They also need to be able to do better criminal background checks to people who are wanting to work there for their own job and not to employ people who are criminally negligent on purpose and psychological testing on their staff to make sure they aren't risks themselves of ending up in the state hospital system itself. Also to make sure that they the Oregon Health Authority employs people who are qualified for the job and who are not going to abuse patients in the State Hospital by using psychiatric medications as chemical restraints and not to abuse the patients physically too because they are mentally ill and they probably don't understand why they are being abused and being treated negligently by staff. I as a Oregonian am very worried and concerned about this situation because I my self have a disability and also have an Autism diagnosis and other diagnoses which are OCD and ADHD and I am also on the states Medicaid OHP plus if I ever end up at the State Hospital I would probably go nuts there because they don't have good care of the patients there,and if anybody from OHA reads this I NEED YOU TO REDO THE STATES MEDICAID SO THAT I CAN GET ALL OF MY MEDICAL INSURANCE THROUGH KAISER PERMANENTE AND NOT HAVE MY DENTAL AND PSYCHIATRIC CARE SOMEWHERE ELSE BECAUSE ITS VERY TIRING AND TRI FOR ME . So please be understanding OHA so that if you decide to go ahead and contact me I will be happy to listen to your feedback and information on this issue and matter.

I had literally the worst time here of my life and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I got a false…read morediagnosis and was forced to take medications I don't need whatsoever. I was made to stay extra long for like no reason and the staff didn't care at all that I needed my own room and not to share. Staff are horrible there and don't make the experience any better. They just want to throw medications at you and aren't there for you at all. They have vending machines they don't let you use, even though I had management ask if we could it got turned down. They have countless policies making everything uncomfortable and no comfortable spaces you can go to and no private room for tv watching. Compared to other hospitals I've stayed at there wasn't a good common area to make you feel less claustrophobic and they didn't let us outside enough. They don't offer nicotine lozenges like I was able to do at another hospital and said I'd have had to just recently have had nicotine withdrawals to even get a patch, which I think patches are gross. They didn't listen to me at all about my medication preferences and literally called me schizoaffective for no good reason at all. And me begging them to listen to me about medication needs fell on deaf ears. They misplaced my belongings and I was not able to get those back either. The mats are extremely uncomfortable, the pillows are too low of quality. The clothes I got were horrible compared to a different hospital stay where the clothes were actually nice. They don't offer enough activities throughout the day which left me constantly pacing the halls trying to get through the day when everyone was rude there and not good to associate with. Again they refused to give me a room to myself. Also they do an awful job situating the other patients in a different section for higher demand patients which led to me getting attacked twice and threatened twice as well. One of the staff literally said to me he thought he could beat me up if we got in a fight. And another staff made a falsified account of me apperantly lunging at him when I did nothing of the sort. Worst hospital stay of all time. Epicly horrible place that takes you away from society and doesn't offer anything in return for being stuck there. They literally wasted over 5 months of my life telling me I was delusional for no reason. Their game is to just force feed people medication who really just have behavioral problems, to make it seem like they're doing their job. I mean I could really go on. They even went through my bag of things at the end taking things out and not letting me know or what the justification was, like a hackysack. Like why? And the items are overpriced at the market, leaving you with like no money for the week. They don't take you to the market often enough, nor the coffee place. The coffee they make in the mornings tastes god awful too. And the tea selection they had was so bad it gave me headaches. They have poor water quality and no bottle fill stations. They don't let you receive packages which was the first encounter I've had of that, so I couldn't get anything nice sent to me as a consolation like even a book or candy bar. The facility is so dirty and they didn't even clean the second room I moved to, it had messes everywhere. For someone with no problems I should've been in and out really quick but instead they failed me for my evaluation the first time and forced me to stay. The evaluations take too long to wait for. Then when you do an evaluation they make you wait forever for a response, unlike all my other experiences where you heard the determination right after the evaluation. There was no computer in the common area so you couldn't check your emails or do anything important like paperwork you'd like to get done during your stay. They are severely understaffed and have too many people staying there, leaving no chances for smaller group activities for someone like me who was getting overwhelmed with the amount of patients who all happened to be very rude to me. Worst mental hospital ever. Aside from one I stayed at where there were only reclining chairs in a common area to sleep on. This stay was even worse. I give it zero out of 5 stars. Avoid this place at all costs, and if you ever go to jail in Oregon, don't give them any indication of struggling with mental health bc if they decide to send you you will just get fed through a broken system and sent to a broken facility with terrible management and staff. Most horrible experience of my life ever aside from jail which the government shouldn't have jurisdiction to do to someone. I'm still fighting to get my medication prescription fixed.

The staff, you are great I really appreciate them. The…read moreminute you walk in it's a great experience.

Recently brought a gentleman to this facility And was very surprised by the lack of professionalism…read moredemonstrated by one of their employees. The lady forced herself between me and the patient and proceeded to abscond with him. I informed her that it was my wheelchair that the patient was in and I would like to operate my own wheelchair to which she abruptly said "no" and proceeded to tell me that she needed to do some of her own duties before I could take my chair with me. I informed her that I was merely transport and I was short on time and did not have time to run around the facility with her to, she attempted to proceed anyway. There are further considerations to mention regarding liability in the event of incident. The longer the patient is in my equipment likelihood I could be held liable for any incident. As a courtesy, I try and accommodate them as much as I can, but if I am short on time, they need to stop trying to intimidate me into accommodating their schedule. It would be different if they had requested my services and were paying for them, but they are not my customer.

I spent 20 days here after a 2 day stay at a local hospital following a total knee replacement. It…read morewas not planned, nor did I partake in choosing where I went. I got excellent care and occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) 5 days a week. The staff treated me very well and I learned a tremendous amount in PT & OT. There will always be times where a wait feels a bit long no matter where you are, but you must realize the nurses know how to prioritize the severity of the requests. I feel that if my other knee ever needs replacing, I will certainly plan to stay at Evergreen Windsor the next time to recuperate as well. Thank you Windsor Staff, for the great care! (Colorful Resident from room 28) 9/23/16 Insurance only covered 20 days of inpatient rehab, so I have 6 more PTs scheduled at OHSU-as outpatient. My first OHSU evaluation therapy was yesterday and the therapist said the progress I made from the therapy at Windsor was excellent, and this is after having no formal therapy for 9 days. I have been exercising at home the way Windsor PT and OT taught me, but wouldn't have scored so well at OHSU had it not been for my Windsor stay. Thank you Windsor staff. My new knee and I will always be grateful!