Oceans Behavioral Hospital – Baton Rouge South

“Do NOT make the mistake and go to the facility. Atrocious, demeaning, neglectful, and forced to sign documents against my will, physician never saw me, had to find legal assistance to leave this god forsaken facility. The nursing staff and counselors are awful. The state needs to intervene. Pending suit against them now.”

“My daughter was sent here from the IOP program. This was the worse place she's ever been sent to! They are incompetent with giving you any kind of information. I called to ask what time could I come visit my daughter on a Saturday and was told by someone over the phone visiting time was 4pm- 5pm. I got there exactly at 4pm, just to be told that I couldn't see my daughter because visiting time was from 2pm-3pm. Granted, it was pouring down raining when I got there and as I stood in the rain to visit my daughter! They have no remorse, because since I was given the wrong information and they seen I got there exactly at 4pm in the pouring rain on top of that, they could have still let me seen my daughter! Even, if they couldn't take me in the back by her, they could have walked her up to where I was to visit for no more than 5 or 10 minutes! I asked them to please tell my daughter I came to see her and I walked from out the rain back to my car and I just started to cry and ask God to please heal and help my child so that she doesn't have to be going in and out of places like this and around people who only see her as a paycheck and nothing else, because they could care less about how these people are treated! My daughter was discharged a few days later, and when I got there it was a guy standing there to deliver the patients lunch standing there to get in so I buzzed the speaker and told them I was there for my daughter to be discharged. Needless to say the deliver guy and me must have stood there for like 10 mins or longer, so much so that the guy pressed the speaker button again to remind them that he was out there with lunch. When the lady finally came to open the door to let us in she asked me to have a sit that she was going to get my daughter. Again, sitting and waiting for at least 10 minutes or more in the front area by myself no one up there to tell me anything! I had to call the nurses station to remind them that I was there for my daughter, and then had to deal with the nurse attitude of "we trying to get her together!" How can you be trying to get her together when y'all was the ones telling me what time to come pick her up??!! Anyway, the door finally opens and my daughter comes out. I couldn't tell you who let her out the door because no one came out to speak or tell my daughter bye or take care like most facilities do, and to top that off I had to wait with the delivery guy to get let in the building, but not one person came to let me and my daughter out the door! I had to fiddle with the door to unlock and open it! That was very unprofessional and I have never been treated like that by any place. I reported it, but no one over there cares! I will never allow my daughter to go back there ever again!! This was her first and very last time!!”

“I just got out today and I will say that it was the scariest thing walking into but the people were absolutely amazing! They don’t get enough credit”

“Do NOT send your loved one here! My Mom was sent here from St. Elizabeth after being diagnosed with late stage dementia. My first time getting to see her I did not recognize her. She was so emaciated and had open wounds on her arms and legs. They claimed they did not deal with wound care. They kept her drugged up and would not give me any information on her treatment. They never gave her any clothes I brought her and took her prescription strength glasses from her her first day there and lost them. They kept her longer than necessary to make money off of her too. This place is horrible!!”