This is no words besides "hell," to describe this place it starts at the top. The doctor's license should be revoked. He should be also sued for malpractice. He does not spend more than 2 minutes or less talking to you. He has no problem though prescribing drugs without knowing anything about you. Get new management and a new doctor or this place will eventually get shut down. read more

Do not know how this facility is open. I really hope it is closed soon in the future. I had a loved one committed here and they continuously extended the stay via legal holds and did not let anyone know and refused to tell them what was going on. All phone calls are monitored and mysteriously hung up the moment they shared what was happening there which I will not disclose since I feel the review will be removed. Additionally, they are absolutely committing welfare fraud. They get an exorbitant amount daily for anyone on Medicaid. read more

Was told before coming I'd be there for a week at most. I get there and I'm told the usual length of stay is 21 days! I understand different patients need different level of care but why house extremely violent individuals with ones who are sad? read more

My cousin is currently in their care and we have been doing everything to try to get her out and safe. They have taken her off her medication that she has been on for years on the spot and changed her medication to 11 of them. She doesn't feel right and the medication is over powering her. She isn't getting the CORRECT help she NEEDS! read more

No visitors allowed. People screaming all the time. Read the other reviews here and it is no mystery why. They only evaluate patients once a week so OF COURSE all patients are forced to stay for 7-14 days. They want to scam your insurance. Dr Navuluri also doesn't believe patients when they have medication side effects, and doesn't believe that adults should have psychiatric problems and insults patients for having them. took two days of being stuck in inpatient to get any medications. He should not be a doctor. read more

I cannot believe that this place still isn't shut down! I was sent back here in 2015 and to this day I have PTSD, it was the most traumatizing experience I ever went through. Patients fighting 24/7, techs recording patients' meltdowns on their smartphones, over drugging patients with the booty juice shot, and doctors milking the insurance company to force patients to stay longer than they have to. I shared a room with a combative schizophrenic woman who almost killed me in my sleep by strangling me and it took 10 minutes for the staff to come and get her off of me. Men and women are housed on the same floor across from each other, I slept with a pillow between my legs because I was terrified I was going to be assaulted in my sleep. Forcing patients to take medications that give them wicked side effects and taking patients' controlled substances off cold turkey while they convulse during withdrawals. No group therapy, no clocks on the wall, no TV, food is like prison food, and pillows are made out of newspapers. Bathrooms are disgusting! Poop, black mold, and rust all over the toilet and floor. Elderly people are being tackled because they have dementia. This place is what Hell would like when you die. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR LOVED ONES HERE! SHUT IT DOWN! read more

I stayed back in 2019 and it was the most disgustingly dirty place I have ever been in my entire life. There was dirt and god knows what on the floor, and few tiny bugs too. The maids there just didn't clean right and no one cared. The people who worked there are completely unprofessional to say the least. One of the patient's toilet did not work and they didn't fix it. One patient sustained an injury from tripping on urine that they did not clean right away. The poor elderly were sharing their diaper rations. STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS. read more

I'm happy to finally be able to write this review. If you are someone looking for impatient help or your doctor is trying to send you here... RUN. I went to inpatient and high school and now about a month ago. So I had a lot to compare. This is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PLACE. The staff members do not care, a great majority of them. They threaten patients with shots even if they're no being aggressive. I watched a patient be dragged through the hallway, limp, from a room with cameras to a room without. And then the patient was punched multiple times. There is no DBT or CBT therapy given there!! There was a woman with a white coat (can't remember her title) that would put her phone in her from coat pocket and record us. When I brought it to people's attention she came to try and defend herself and made rude comments in the halls. It's ghetto. And again the staff does not care. There is so much more I could say but you get the gist now. DO NOT GO HERE. AND I WISH THE MAYOR OR SOMEBODY WOULD LOOK INTO THIS PLACE AND SEE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN. read more

Don't go there run far away..I'm still trying to save and get my family member out of there..I can't believe this place hasn't shut down .

ZERO STARS!!! This place is a nightmare! They illegally billed for things my husband wasn't taking, they billed for dates insurance deemed NOT MEDICALLY NECESSARY! Insurance told them to release my husband they kept him five more days and now want us to pay tons of money! They didn't help, they made things worse! My husband was terrified there. They had him with someone who was extremely dangerous, he said women were raped in there and staff refused to do anything and wouldn't even call the police. Patients attacking other patients and staff and he felt completely unsafe in there, he felt unsafe with me visiting because patients were roaming when they didn't have visitors, including dangerous ones. The place was disgusting. Urine, feces, other bodily fluids throughout the halls, walls, floors, in visitors area. My husband said he was scared he was going to catch something from all the blood and nastiness throughout the bathrooms, the showers, and everywhere. They need to be shut down! My husband should have been released within 7 days and was kept for 14 days! He gained over 20lbs as they fed him nothing but junk food and unhealthy food. He said they were given sandwiches, chips, cookies, all sorts of sugary foods. Medicines were not explained and if you asked what they were giving you and why they'd try to keep you even longer. I worked in the medical field and you don't treat people like this, especially ones who were scared enough to seek help, now they never will!!!!! read more

If you or a loved one needs professional mental care, please, for the love of all things sane, DO NOT GO HERE. I was kept in ward B for 15 days (for not complying with the pill cocktails they were dosing me up with), as I have refused pharmaceutical pills since I was a teenager. The levels of professionalism, cleanliness, and care varied with every worker, but overall, this place was absolute hell and had my mental health in a rapid decline. It's inhumane to treat people the way that I, and other patients, were treated. How does a place claim to rehabilitate people, when they don't even give out medication for chronic pain, don't allow the prisoners a breath of fresh air, and don't offer any real physical exercise, among some of the biggest complaints among the other inmates. Overall, this place is a hellhole. My therapist was so disappointed that I had ended up there, as their reputation as one of the worst hospitals in the state really speaks for itself. Please, do not send anyone here, unless you really, truly hate them and want their insurance to be billed insane amounts for prison'esque "treatments". Inhumane, does not rehabilitate, punishes people that ended up there in a crisis situation; Samaritan Behavioral Center is only good for bleeding you and your insurance out, and breaking people with any sort of mental disorder and/or on the spectrum. This place deserves to be shut down. read more

This is basically a criminal enterprise​ that rips of Medicare and Medicaid. They need to be investigated​ and closed. They harm rather than help people. The "psychiatrists" basically lie to you and claim they have gone to court to keep you and may decide to keep you for months. They beat people and put people who don't need it in 4 point restraints ( a practice that is being outlawed because of so many deaths) force drug you. I was sent there by an error of physician orders (which he is paying for). I knew EVERYONE had to stay for at least 8 days and so I tried to tough it out... you have no choice, you are on lockdown​. It is terrifying I am a cancer patient who was in hospice and was supposed to be transferred from Beaumont Troy to Beaumont Royal Oak, I was told because of an available room mix up. I was on high doses of narcotics and being locked up meant I had to go cold turkey. They put me through that, vomiting night and day until by the time I got home I was going into shock and EMS took me to the hospital where​ I stayed on the oncology floor for 6 days as they tried to get me better. A nurse at the "Behavioral Center begged the psychiatrist called Dr. K to let me go to a real medical facility and he refused even though I was a 70 year old woman with a heart problem and very sick. I think they are used to letting people die because a friend who came to check up on me ( btw no visitor is allowed to see where they REALLY keep you because it is so bad), heard the service desk woman downstairs say on the phone a " Well he had better get his shit together or he is gonna be just another dead body on a Detroit street. It scared her so badly she was about to call the police. I have no doubt that they are capable of this letting someone die. Never send anyone you care about to this jail thinking they will get help. They won't and it is dangerous. Very dangerous. read more

Would give 0 stars if possible. Not a treatment facility. Staff are not trained or knowledgable, and the "doctors" spend less than 5 minutes with patients and just mark off everything on the sheet to increase the likelihood that the patient can be held so they can bleed them dry for insurance money. Absolutely criminal. Will be filing complaints with the regulatory board. read more

We took our mother here to this hospital for help. While in the hospital she was beat up by one of the patients that was there. The nurse did not even notice that my mother was walking bent over with a limp after the beat down. When she went into that facility she was walking straight up without a limp. At first we did not know if this was a dilusion because she said she did not see the person that came into her room and beat her. A day later after discharge we found out that it was at night and the room was dark. Secondly the doctor discharged my mother even though we told the nurse that she was still having major dilusions and was not ready to be discharged. He was not a good doctor. He would not talk to us even though we requested speaking with him. My mother was treated like cattle. It was good she was discharged because we did learn the truth of what really happened when she was there. I would not recommend taking any of your loved ones to this facility. read more

Read the other reviews! They are so true! This place is a concentration death camp, I was sent here back in 2015. I ended up at Beaumont Botsford for depression and OCD, The social worker there said to me, she was going to send me to the worst place to get my crap together and boy she did! I remembered that morning when the am EMTS came, they told me they were taking me to Samaritan in Detroit. When I got there, there were already patients fighting against each other and I was getting a massive panic attack. They stripped me of everything, and placed me in a room with this roommate who had severe schizophrenia who screamed in the middle of the night! They only gave me one blanket and one flat pillow, and the showers... don't get me started, they were absolutely disgusting! It looked like there was rust or poop on the wall in the showers, and I never took a shower for 10 days when I was there. I just washed up because those showers were so gross. The psychiatrist doctor was a sociopath, he wanted me to stay longer! By the 4th day I was feeling better with my bad thoughts and med adjustment, and I was feeling good enough to go home. Nope! They will make you stay and milk your insurance! The doctor kept saying to me, "if you keep asking I will just keep extending your stay." and he did! I stay there for 10 long days, it felt like hell!! The patients who got upset, the nurses and techs gave them and held them down to give them a haldol shot without their consent. It was so disturbing seeing large men tackle women just to give them a injection. They were knocked out cold for days and did not even wake them up to eat meals. The food was absolutely disgusting, reminded me of jail food when I never even went to jail before. Very cold meals, never listen to your special dietary needs. You are forced to eat whatever they gave you. Group therapy, there was no group therapy!! If there was one, it would've been 1 once every 2 to 3 days later. There was absolutely no TVs (besides the one in the dining room, but shut during those times) or clocks on the wall, so you did not even know what time it was. I swear this place is a prison disguised. I was forced off my anti anxiety medications when I got there, they were going to make me get off xanax cold turkey but thankfully my mother called and balled them out saying that you have to slowly wean me off. They are trying to kill you there! The techs would record patients having meltdowns with their smartphones, and when you try to tell the nurses, they would gaslight you making you like you are insane.. My mother was trying everything to get me out, because they were making me stay longer than I needed. Like I said, I stayed in there for 10 days and the 10th day when I got discharge, it was the most happiest day of my life! I told myself I will never step foot in a psychiatric hospital ever again, and that was 3 years ago. I still have nightmares and flashbacks being locked up in there, please do not send you loved ones there!!! You are not doing them a favor by sending them there, you're actually making their depression and mental health worse.. I wouldn't send my worst enemy there, this place is a death trap and needs to be closed down! read more

The behavioral center is a nightmare, especially for someone with PTSD. It took everything I had to stay sane in there. Men were hitting on women and trying to make sexual advances (and vice versa), there were sometimes multiple fights daily, it was very unclean (food messes everywhere, people would be soaked in urine or have deficated on themselves...and then sit down and the furniture not be cleaned til the following day. Multiple people hadn't showered more than 1 time in the 14 days I was there...yet they stress hygiene). The doctor MIGHT spend 30 seconds a day with you, if you are even that lucky. He does a fantastic job of misdiagnosing people and prescribing the wrong medication. I have very bad anxiety, and he prescribed me with antidepressants. I'm not a depressed person at all. I felt like a complete zombie the whole time I was there. I felt like I was going to pass out half the time from not eating enough because the food portion sizes were so small. The only good thing about this place is that it felt like the techs were on our side most of the time. If you treat them with respect, they treat you with respect. It was a very stressful environment to be in, and I feel sorry for anyone that has to be in there. It's supposed to be a place to get better, but how can you do that with people of all different diagnoses in the same place? You cannot put a person with PTSD in this type of environment, with constant physical altercations, and expect them to be ok. There needs to be hospitals out there for specific/individualized mental health conditions. read more

Please do not send your family members here if you are looking for professional and courteous staff. I have been on the phone approximately 8 times today begging for my son to be given his medication. In addition to mental health and substance abuse he has severe seizures. I am deeply concerned as I am typing this he is about to have one. He has been at this (I'm not sure what to call it) for approximately 30 hours and has only been given one pill. His doctor faxed over his medications he has been on and I'm not sure why some of them at least has not been provided. Upon trying to contact someone to assist I have been given the run around. I have been told tell the patient to ask. He has ask numerous times. I consider this place set up for failure. Never Again, will I allow my family to be transferred here. If a staff member reads this and would like to contact me that would be awesome. I have tried to email and do everything the correct way and have gotten nowhere. DO NOT SEND YOUR LOVED ONES TO THIS PLACE WHATEVER ONE WOULD CALL IT. read more