Perimeter Behavioral of the Ozarks

“.. this place made me scared, not better. I was scared of staying longer, so I pretended to be a good child. Im posting this about 1 year later after my stay!! THERE IS A NEWS REPORT ABOUT THIS EXACT PLACE. PLEASE READ THAT TOO. DONT SEND YOUR KID THROUGH THE SAME EXPERIENCE I WENT THROUGH. !! experience there. I was stuck in this facility for nearly a year, and while I was there there were 2 riots, police called, and alot of fights. I wont say it was completely bad, but there was more bad than good. I appreciated SOME of the staff there. I'm not going to name any, because I'm sure theyve quit as I've seen multiple of my favorite staff quit. Here's my story here: I arrived, of course I was happy to finally receive care. Upon being there, I was informed I'd get therapy, (which from what I KNOW, WAS ONLY ONCE A MONTH.) now this might not seem bad, but I struggle with severe PTSD. This doesn't make me special at all, but it does deserve to be recognized and when the kids there are all FIGHTING, CAUSING RIOTS, PLOTTING TO STEAL KEY CARDS, AND JUMPING OVER THE NURSES COUNTER. This is a problem. I wasn't a saint myself, but I NEVER JUMPED OVER THE NURSES COUNTER OR CAUSED A RIOT. There are 3 units. Green, orange, and blue when I was there, we separated by age, then "level". I understand that you staff would like to know what unit is most "dangerous" (as I overheard a nurse say.) but stop giving us labels. And I do recall staff having favorites, not treating everyone equally. And I'm not lying, there was racist prn, who had discriminated against our teacher who was of a different race. (From what I know and have heard. Staff and nurses dont seem to care that we as patients can also hear their conversations when they talk out in the open.) This disgusts me. This whole place disgusts me. A STAFF TOLD ME TO "SHUT THE flonk UP" and not gonna lie, I was upset so before that I did tell her to shut up talking to me. Was there a need to cuss back at me? No. Also, just an fyi, I saw a kid get nearly choked by another kid and the staff made jokes about it after. The only staff who had never done bad to me was the cafeteria staff. Mr. EDD I think. I don't remember his name well, but he made kids stuff for their birthday and had some wise words to share.of course he wouldn't just let you insult him either, but he had never cussed at anyone and keep going back and forth. Staff should know when to try to deescalate and calm down a situation, not sit there and groan about "are we doing this again?" (Happened btw). Before this becomes a novel, I have one more thing to say. Staff, if you claim to make more money working at a Walmart, then go work there. Because the kids don't want you there if that's the type of mindset youre gonna have while working at a mental facility. (A staff said this by the way.) Overall , I wish 0 was an option. But 1/5 because Mr edd was kind. I really hope things improved from the time I was there but, looking at recent things? It probably hasn't. Staff are more childish than the kids at times, can't be professional and talk about the appropriate stuff at the appropriate time, and SERIOUSLY, IF YOU MAKE MORE MONEY AT WALMART, THEN JUST GO WORK THERE. SINCE YOU DONT CARE. thank you if read this far. I hope if you're a parent, you will love and trust your kid and their experience will be better than mine.”

“Using an alias for safety purposes. Know that this facility changed their name to get away from years of allegations. Notice how for some reason the old name has different hours listed? Meant to make you think it's another place. Do not send your child here. This was in 2017. Within the first week or two of entering the program, I was attacked brutally and had an attempted murder by a patient, completely un-instigated. The patient had managed to obtain a butcher knife due to events going on that day and threw it at me. The knife had been left in the med room, which had been left open several times during my stay, which led to at least 5 separate incidents. The knife was brought into the hospital for an event where the staff were cutting up fruit for us and we learned a bit about nutrition. After this incident, no law enforcement was alerted, the incident was written down and told to my parents as it being a small butter knife, and she was still in the facility. The next day she ended up brutally attacking me, stating she was going to kill me. Only then was law enforcement alerted and she was sent to a juvenile center. Another day a resident was able to sneak a pair of scissors from the classroom and use it to injure herself so severely she required stitches. That same resident also did this to cut her hair on a previous occasion. One time a patient had been permitted to be alone for at least 30 minutes with a glass perfume bottle, and she used it to hurt herself. In the yard there were many pieces of broken glass and possibly other sharp things that were traded around. It took a very long time to deal with it, and I personally had to help clean up the glass because no one else would. There was another incident where (at least) two patients had been left around the open med room, they grabbed several used STD testing needles and were able to harm themselves with them. Another incident with two of the same patients led to them being able to overdose on various medications they had grabbed from the same med room. Only after this incident was anyone fired, although as far as I know nothing else was done. One day I was left in a bathroom that was locked from the outside despite trying to call to him that I was in there. I was in there for around 30 minutes (I know because of the breakfast schedule) until I figured out how to get out as I was able to unlock it from the inside. The staff involved was fired but to my knowledge nothing else happened over it. I will note that besides the first two incidents and the incidents with the two patients in the med room I am unsure as to the order of these events, but overall there was a major lack of supervision, neglect that occurred during my stay, and a lot of covering up of incidents. I recently remembered that there were several staff who made me do tasks that other residents didn't have to, such as paint staff's nails and clean my own vomit when the unit bathroom didn't work and they forced me to wait to go to the external one. They would be verbally abusive when I didn't do these things, and took away privileges at random. Do they know that's considered labor trafficking?”

“Absolutely horrible experience. We have to do the leg work every month with insurance and tell them what they need to send to extend out. Meetings scheduled and 15 after the meeting was suppose to start we have to reach out by email and ask what’s going on because they won’t. Just to be told oh I’m in another meeting and it needs to be rescheduled. No one ever answers their phone and even if you leave 5-10 messages a day no one will return a phone call. This place is a joke and they are not there for the children’s help. Someone needs to go in and get it organized.”

“I loved some of the staff, but sadly most of the good ones would quit because of how difficult it was with other staff not doing their jobs!! It was usually understaffed, and kids were fighting constantly. Got chopped in the throat by a staff member, short Erika. Tall Mrs Erika was great though! Had to love the wolf spiders(wish I was joking, kids were getting bit). Loved Mrs Ashley, as well as Mrs Blair though, her and Mrs Rose, Mrs McKenna, Mrs Annika and Mrs crystal who helped me get back to my mom, as well as Mr Arron, and I feel really bad but i forgot that one goofy guys name, and Mr Ed were amazing. And I absolutely loved Mrs Hailey, Mrs Ashley and Mrs Morgan, I don't think anyone has ever been so beneficial to my mental health. The lunch lady was great as well, I feel bad for forgetting her name. Signed, Baked Bean aka SMOL bean (if you know you know)”