About Rehabilitation Program: Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center: Herrick Campus
Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center: Herrick Campus provides a comprehensive rehabilitation program that has received positive reviews from patients. The psychiatrists are described as excellent, and the overall patient experience is good, despite the challenges faced by some individuals with complex mental health conditions. The hospital is praised for its ability to stabilize patients and provide high-quality care, with well-informed and educated staff. The Comprehensive Cancer Clinic at Herrick is also highly regarded, with patients commending the professionalism, encouragement, and kindness of the medical professionals. The hospital's attention to patient concerns, timely test results, and personalized follow-up calls from the in-house pharmacy have contributed to a positive experience for those undergoing cancer treatment. Overall, the Rehabilitation Program at Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center: Herrick Campus is described as a valuable resource for those seeking mental health and cancer treatment services.
Was held on line for 1 hour!! Then the office said they are not taking out of state doctor's order! That's absurd! California does not have such a law and injury happened during a winter break out of state! I told them my insurance will make you whole but they insist on this policy. Was transferred to a manager but was hung up!! Not recommend this horrible service to anybody.
Somewhere in the annuals of Alta Bates Summit Herrick Campus laying between the informal " No Admit" list and the staff opinions from which legends are made is the Spector of my soul..from 1998 through 2024..I must have racked up some frequent flyer miles by niw . But really the benefit I included was age and experience which I want to share ,particularly to parents of patients to help make decisions about your relatives treatment. The current models and practices are a FAR cry from where I found myself in 1997.To honor both myself and other victims of the old model,it deserves recalling that Herrick was primitive,cruel,punitive,and the essence of what is meant by pathologizing I was assaulted by a health care flor staff who ripped a shirt off me before she threw me in a shower and one need not wonder,the shower was equally assaultive. I was in a wheelchair for a decade with a trauma based conversion disorder.Despite the well meaning efforts of Jane Hagstrom ,a great advocate viaing for sainthood, the staff she oversaw were often rogues ..some educated and some painfully uneducated bullies who were drawn to the one field where the dehumanization .. invalidation, devaluation,and delegitimization..were the norm,from the field that brought us Eugenics,patients were treated as an inferior,defective albeit willfully deviant group,a degradation to the healthy and an open invitation to the various forms of Narcissistic Abuse. Over the years,slowly,the more Incompetent and cruel staff were let go or reassigned.I recall Joseph and Cameron and Mark ,a charge nurse now relegated to psych intake as among the unkind and unethical Staff like Gail and Kriss Anne wre hired to infuse actual human contact and psycho education and by their being present demonstrate welcoming and tolerant orientations. As archaic models wre replaced along with younger doctors like Matthew Fitzpatrick and now Di Giovanni,the concepts of containment and reprogramming begin to give way to Trauma Informed Care that is actually transactional. As it turns out the more you try to pedagogically approach illness, distress,distortions as wrongs to be righted the more the patients feels attacked and resists and resents and suffers worse sx in a state of fight or flight. Now the new approach is non confrontational,offers massive affirmations aimed to get patients to calm down,cooperate and align with themselves and the mileu. To his is far smarter and less abusive,if course,but the realistic component of actual engagement between personalities is lost. While modifying styles to each condition or state,Herrick can still bring a level of engagement that maturely addresses each person.Patients are not babies and while extreme care is given,by some staff,to vulnerability,their is a core person who is not being addressed. Since trauma based personality disorders are overrepresented in acute settings, the Medical Directors really ought to incorporate advanced models in individual and group like Mentalzation in practice forms designed for intake. Also,a process group cannot mean a discursive free for all as Gillian is presently running his groups on 4East A ..it's discombobulating and poor modelling to not have structure,good boundaries and an apparent model to focus a group and make it meaningful.Hevis kind and smart but he needs to pick a framework and stick to it Do not throw out structure and the sort of integration it can bring. towards an outpatient plan that does not include lifelong recidivism If you are looking for a somewhat successful stabilization unit,Herrick has improved to the point where you are likely to get that,but with all tje resources of this "not for profit" more intentional,aim oriented treatment should be incorporated Be super careful who you allow to be the treating MD. Here is a good MD short list; Dr Fitzpatrick,Dr Di Giovanni,Dr Arnold,Dr Baldwin.Dr Epstein,Dr Fischer. There is within psych intake some super heroes,present and retired. Among them Margot Liebermann,Nancy Macquire,and the famously ideal driven Dr Joseph Tang
The staff members at floor 4EA have the Excellent bedside manners, very accommodating, humble & professionalism. The quality of care are Excellent from the Psychiatrist Dr DiGiovani, Chaplin Cindy, Nurse Manager Mary Ann & Lisa, Nurses: Robert, Jeff, Denise, Andrew, Angel, Richard, David, Yvette, Toni and all the Nurses at 4EA (Sorry if I forget), my social worker/Case manager Ms. Nancy. I am so grateful for all the staff members and doctors for helping me to my journey of healing. I will love you forever always Jocelyn.