am extremely disappointed with the communication at The Meadows. My 16-year-old son is currently a patient, and parents are told they can call between 7-9 PM to speak with their child. That is already a very limited window. Tonight I called 15 times during the allowed hours and every single time I was told "the nurse is busy with patients" and that I should leave a message. I did exactly that, multiple times, and not one call was returned. If you give families a two-hour window to communicate with their child, then you should actually make sure someone is available to facilitate those calls. Otherwise, the policy is meaningless. Parents should not have to call over and over just to try to speak to their child, especially when that child is in a mental health facility. The lack of follow-through and basic communication is incredibly frustrating and concerning. Families deserve better than being repeatedly brushed off with "leave a message" and then never hearing back. read more

Ok this is really meant to be a joke account but this place genuinely sucks I'm not even gonna make a funny review on this. I was here back in March on the b1 unit and it really didn't help you weren't allowed to leave rooms when it was overstimulating despite the many windows in the tiny ass group room a lot of patients had fresh self harm and no one did anything about it and they let many people out while unstable including me this place genuinely doesn't help I was there two times because I didnt get the help i needed and despite constantly putting on the community papers that I wanted to hurt myself and saying I wanted to kill myself they let me go and it really upset me how they didn't use my preferred name at all. This place feels like a prison and I got worse after each time I leave I don't tell anyone what I'm going through in genuine fear that I'll have to go back. Not to mention it's extremely boring you sit and color and talk to other patients and are stuck in a small ass room all day. I genuinely might have to come back because of my mental state once again and I really don't want to come back to this shit of a place. read more

Never go here or send anyone you love here. A family member was recently a patient there, arriving for care on a voluntary admission because of suicidal thoughts, and what she needed was a safe place in which to receive thoughtful therapeutic care. This is the opposite of what she received. Among the issues that she reported: A male patient sexually assaulting a female patient and attempting to assault our family member and other women, while the sparse staff did nothing to prevent him continuing to wander loose in the unit. Due to the understaffing, the phone on the unit often went unanswered, so that the family members could not reach her despite frequently repeated tries during the permitted client phonecall hours of 7-9pm. Likewise, our messages on the staff voicemail to request a family conference with the nurse or doctors went unanswered. There was nearly no therapy and while she was told upon admission that they had all of her regular meds in stock, this proved not to be the case and so she did not have access to one of her meds while she was there. She was also not informed for a few days that she needed to formally request to be released before the 72 hour wait began; and then it was 96 hours because there was no doctor available on the Sunday when the 72 hour wait was up to sign her release form. There is apparently a well documented history of violations committed by The Meadows, as reflected in this article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/meadows-psychiatric-hospital-pennsylvania/? read more

I strongly discourage anyone to enter this place for their mental health treatment and care. The Meadows is understaffed to handle the needs of it's patients. The lack of communication is sad, at best, and the support you seek is non-existent. There is zero structure to your "therapy" and operationally it is substandard. Upon admission to the unit I was never given a medical history review or a formal meeting with a medical provider to discuss my needs and intentions. Not once during my stay had a staff member asked why I was seeking inpatient treatment. Not once. I did not talk to a doctor on the unit until my third day at this center, and that was about 5 minutes in length of discussion. I never met with a treatment team prior to discharge. I was never given an opportunity to discuss a treatment plan. They allow patients to listen to obscene music on the television (loudly) and watch horror movies as "Saw". Group therapy lasts about 10 minutes, if they even have group on any given day. There was soap scum and mold in my bathroom's shower. I noticed a camera in my bedroom the day before discharge. I spent 4 nights, five days and I was running out of there when my 72-hour notice was up. Please, if you need help, please find another provider. The Meadows psych center in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania is not looking out for you. They don't care about you or your mental health. You are a body they give medications to. I paid The Meadows to get meds, eat, sleep, listen to music on headphones, and color. I left worse than I came. read more

It was far from my expectations. Its a lockdown facility with no movement. I never saw a therapist or counselor the 8 days I spent there. It was a was of time and money. read more