Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center

“I was sent here like not that long ago and all I have to say is that it was terrible, it’s like the staff are unprofessional because there are a lot of times where staff didn’t do anything when they clearly need to, like this one time another patient was crying because there was something wrong going on with their body at the time and the staff in the room with us which was mr Paul didn’t do anything about it because he thought they were joking. A lot of other times, there was this other patient that was harassing me for no reason like throwing stuff at me and calling me names and again the staff (including mr paul and multiple others who I forgot the names of) didn’t do anything about it. Also the staff here like miss Leslie and mr Joe (the TA) are really insensitive and literally make fun of patients. I feel like Ms. Joyce was the only one who was nice to be around in this place and I’m really thankful she was there for me when I needed help and when I was feeling down.”

“I was here for 20 days and it was by far the most traumatizing thing I've ever done the first night I was there they went into my room at like 3 or 4 am then drew 6 TUBES of my blood and messed up really bad that I had a bruise for around 5 months, and they let all the children so stuff that I was not comfortable with that I managed to Cry TWELVE times in one day and I was actively having a panic attack and my friend from the facility was calming me down and gave me a hug and we both got yelled at like what the hell? Thought I was here to fix my mental health not make it worse and the codes triggered me REALLY bad. I would cry and shake every goddamn time and there were at least 2 codes for my ward every single day and I got yelled at by adults. But I really liked Amy that's the only thing I liked”

“I was sent here when i was 16 in 2019 and it was very insane negligent place i cant believe this place hasnt been shut down. First of all how are troubled 17 year olds allowed to live with tiny children all living together? Literally watched a 16 year old girl get in a physical fight with a 7 year old girl. I was friends with a 15 year old girl who had been there for over 6 months who told me she was having some type of relationship with a staff member he told her they would be together when she got out. She showed me a video of that staff member throwing up gang signs in a music video on youtube on the computer when we were at “school”. My question is how did she even know about this music video and she knew what gang he was in if he didnt show her? It had his street name not his real name in it … I witnessed a kid slamming their head against the wall so hard for minutes on end in front of everone while staff members completely ignored it and continued conversating amongst eachother. When i asked them why no one was doing anything i was yelled at. This was all in a 2 week stay.”

“I went here as a child and it was genuinely traumatic. Send your kid to Four Winds if you can because that place actually treats you like a human being. Sucks that your mental health is dependent on whether you can afford private health insurance. The system is broken and the poor on medicaid go to facilities like this and the kids that can afford it go to Four Winds, and any mental health physician in this state that's honest will tell you that. Maybe this facility has gotten better in the last ten years, but I highly doubt it.”