Just for the PAU - psychiatric assessment unit.Very friendly, took good time to talk to us. Separeately at first, then together - makes sense.Also kind people working area offering lots.Never been in a hospital area like this before, won't be nervous about it in future.
The online pictures of the Waterford Hospital are not realistic. It looks so pretty outside on these pictures. But you have to be in there as a patient to see that the hospital leaves much to be desired. I have been there on and off for almost 20 years as a visitor. It has always seemed to me to be more of a prison environment than that of a hospital. It offers little for patient care and the environment will make a person sick if he is not sick already. Wasn't this hospital built in 1855? Sick people -especially those that are mentally ill- need to be treated with patience, gentleness, and loving care because of the terrible things that go through their minds. The patients sometimes don't know what is happening mentally within and without. All nursing staff should be caring and patient, and most of them are and should be commended, but some may have seen too much and their patience has worn thin. Any one of us could wind up in the Waterford. We should be doing more for these people that are in so much pain. They should not be in a place like that! I will never pretend to know what our governments do with our tax dollars, but I can assure you that they are not spent on the Waterford hospital or the care that mentally ill patients receive. I also believe that the doctors who treat the patients should have more input when it comes to governmental or hospital policies and procedures, for they see it all and understand the pain that these lonely people go through. For now I pray that God will help our children for our governments will not!
My daughter has been in and out of the mental health system for the past 10 years and has attempted taking her life 4 times. In those years she was never diagnosed but was put on an antidepressant and a sleeping pill to stop nightmares from an attack that happened rather than help her work through it. My daughter told the psychiatrist the antidepressant wasnt working but the psychiatrist wouldnt change it and sent her home after 3 months in hospital still on the wrong meds which had her getting worse by the day. She recently attempted suicide again and this time got a diagnoses of BPD, Anorexia/bulimia and substance abuse issues along with depression, anxiety and signs of PTSD while at the health sciences. During her stay there she was able to see her old physiologist at the Waterford who instead of treating her for the disorders a Dr. outside of the Waterford gave he decided to tell my daughter that he dont think that is whats wrong with her which has put her in another downward spiral and has her thinking that its just her being stupid rather than the BPD and has us fearing what she will do next. She finally had a reason for whats been happening to her all these years and was starting to crawl out of the hole shes been in since last winter only to fall back in because of him. The Dr. wanted more testing done but instead of the psychiatrist on staff at the health sciences doing anything he told her to speak to the physiologist at the Waterford instead of checking her for himself has did the psychiatrist at the Waterford when my daughter asked to be tested for other issues that are genetic in the family. If a psychiatrist cant be bother to treat you and a physiologist cant follow a patients chart and treat them for what they have been diagnosed with they shouldnt be allowed to work in the mental health system. We will be putting in a formal complaint against these people and are currently trying to find new Drs for her which isnt an easy thing to get unless admit yourself in to the hospital or hurt yourself to the point where someone has to listen. This place deserves no stars but you can't put up a review unless you rate them with a star
This place is awesome!!
I went to this hospital looking for help. Instead of getting help, I was treated like I was wasting their time and was told to go see my family doctor. They denied me help (as in no help at all, not even actual advice) because I forgot to mention I had been prescribed a certain drug: it was an anti-depressant I can't take because I'm epileptic! I pointed this out but they wouldn't listen.Even though I'm epileptic, I can drink alcohol. The reason I am pointing this out is because when I left the hospital, I did something I had not done in five years: I went to the liquor store and bought alcohol and when I got home, I drank it all. I never had a drinking problem in the past and after the date I "relapsed" (was pushed to drink again thanks to the visit at the Waterford Hospital) I did not drink again but I find it ironic that you go to a place such as the Waterford Hospital looking for help but instead you leave feeling worse, you leave feeling so much worse that you buy alcohol to try to numb the pain. I did not get sick nor did I have a hangover from the "relapse" but I just decided not to drink again since it's not something I normally do, except in situations like the one I experienced.
Waterford Hospital, Eastern Health is a Canadian Hospital based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Waterford Hospital, Eastern Health is located at 306 Waterford Bridge Rd, St. John's, NL A1E 4J8, Canada.
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