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Living Hope Institute
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citysearch c.
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As a medically diagnosed, clinically depressed adult male and healthcare professional myself (physical therapist), looking for professional help, I turned to the ""Living Hope Institute"". It was one of the single worst and most expensive (emotionally, psychiatrically and financially) mistakes of my life. The ""professional staff"" are Bachelor's level or less people who are just looking for a job. The nurses are, basically, lazy. They carry out their duties as if they are doing patients a favor. One ""therapist"", a Bachelor''s level social worker, charged me and my insurance company $285 for an ""individual psychotherapy"" session during which the therapist told me that I must ""relax"". I was charged for ""speech pathology"" services, when none were rendered. Medications (type and dosage) were dispensed incorrectly, and nurses became anywhere between defensive and vindictive when this was brought to their attention. I was seen by a psychiatrist twice, and I told him which medications I wanted. He didn't give a damn. It didn't matter to him. Untrained, unskilled, inexperienced young individuals conducted many ""recreational therapy sessions"" during which we played games and drawings of male and female genitalia were drawn on the chalkboard. One ""therapist"" gave a full hour's lecture on the DSM-IV. While that may have been interesting to mental health care workers, it had absolutely no therapeutic value to the patients in attendance. He didn't care. It was ""filler"". The booklet describing the program is literally laughable. As it turned out, the program was, in reality, executed by a contract agency, designed to maximize profits and minimize expenses. However, patients were never told this. They were led to believe the the ""Living Hope Institute"" was a program operated by St. Vincent's Doctors' Hospital with St. Vincent's staff members. Avoid this program at all costs, regardless of how much you are hurting.
Pros: Absolutely none, unless you derive pleasure from throwing your money away.
Cons: A program that seems designed to add psychopathology to already distressed patients.
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