As a college graduate now seeking a Masters Degree, I am gravely concerned for any individual to be a patient or vistor at Arbour Hospital. In August of 2007 I suffered a mental breakdown after a sexual assault following my graduation. I was sent to Arbour and for the 8 hours I was there, already suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I was sexually harassed and touch by another patient in the facility. Not only did this occur directly infront of four ""bouncer-like"" body gaurds ( who obviously had no credentials to be there) but the it was infront of the head nurse on duty. When I approached her about the harassment, she told me nothing happened and then a few seconds later told me, mind you a victim of a severely damaging sexual assult, that what I wearing was ( a choice word) and told me to change. I was wearing a tennis skirt--more like a skort--and a polo top. When I reacted to the comment she screamed at me to go to my room-- almost as if she regarded me as nothing more than a mental case. I could not believe the level of horror I had just faced. Having studied in London and in Boston in Undergraduate years, I was surely a woman of my time who was intelligent and up-to-date on how mental facilities should run, ill or not. I never remember feeling so powerless and disregaurded. Although I was able to leave the hospital after 8 hours and be transfered to Beth Isreal Hospital, I cannot remember a more hopeless and unsettling facility. I was only able to leave because my loved ones heard I was at Arbour and immediately found me a hospital else where. If anyone else has had a terrible experience at this hospital please let me know. I will soon be writing to the Senator about the issue.
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