South Beach Psychiatric Center

“I'm just thankful for some excellent of out patient care doctor with staff of OVL clinic is so good excellent care of me alot ofmenegent from 2009it to help with my mental health from out of the hospital in 2009 so amazing how Staten island does not having a too be able to open Saturdays clinics and mental illness issue so that they're all overwhelmed limited services offered and services offered at my listings for mental health clinical on with Staten Island because I really regret for moving from Brooklyn to staten island because I have relapse on my drugs nobody's care if you are a city worker's from park and recreational and that why I was just fire from my jobs from 2004 to schedule an appointment with Staff of northwell clinics for Some treatments and nobody's else's is open Saturdays on Saturday morningt I have know that south beach psychedelic clinic has a budget and they don't do me enough for work and self-schedule appointments with school that I am currently a fill in cleaner jobs available to get some available clinics appointments for Saturday morning again they don't do enough for tryapist and self-schedule appointments and they don't care if you are middle class citizens and I also have working keeping my NYCSSS CLEANER jobs in cleaner jobs with anter problems with my profile and they don't care if you are a city worker's with a profile and they like to leaking it out patient medical files”

“There is not enough options for mental health system. We are so grateful to have found a place for my grandson South Beach adolescence I cannot say enough about Dr. Pong psychiatrist and Rose therapist they have gone above and beyond and truly do care as if my grandson was one of their own. They are simply amazing forever grateful . in my opinion, people should appreciate this facility as parents we should be so grateful to have help when we’re feeling hopeless”

“If I could give no stars I could. They do what they want, when they want, the staff is incompetent and dos not care. They are only there to collect a check. Please do not think any staff that works for this facility is good or has integrity. They do what’s best for them, not the patient of their family. They course and trick vulnerable people into signing and doing things they shouldn’t”

“If I could add negative stars I would. I don't even know where to start. They overmedicate patients so that the majority are drooling, and practically in a coma, their shirts have a lot of their saliva. The doctor never tells you when they've increased or added a new medication until you notice it in your medicine cup and the majority of medication of generics look the same or have the same color. The water to take a shower takes 20 minutes to get lukewarm water. The food plates are the size to feed a 10 year old and I wouldn't even feed the food to a dog, for example 4 tiny pieces of meat in the beef stew. They force you to attend groups to learn idiotic skills such as watching music videos or meditation videos and meditation I could do on the outside on YouTube. They don't teach basic skills to those who are lower functioning or college classes to advanced functioning people. Some nurses provoke you so you are given even more medication. There are no workout equipment except for a few treadmills and recumbent bikes and are limited to one class a week. We weren't allowed to create email addresses and were locked out of our rooms, the majority of the day. We had very hard smaller than twin size mattresses and less than an inch pillows. You're stay here can vary from several months to 10 or 20 years. The way mentally ill people are treated are treated worse than inmates. Then they release you to community residence's (group homes), or apartment programs. Those facilities can be extremely dirty or have inadequate air conditioning for people on numerous medications that can't tolerate heat well. The whole system for mentally ill people are very misinterpreted, abusive, not understanding, and once released are living with a personal needs allowance (money to do what you want for the month), of less than $250.00, while they take our whole SSI or SSD check. Abusive and unknown to most people. The majority of the population are misinformed which is why you see people homeless or begging in the streets.”