Fairfax Hospital (Everett)

My son was there for 12 days and he said the staff , Drs were very polite and helpful to him his stay helped him tremendously.He liked the food and the snacks would recommend to anyone needing mental health Conditions/Crisis and just all around a Definite service needed in every Community.Thank youguys so much for helping my son

Horrible place. It highlights everything wrong in this country with mental health care!

This place exceeded my expectations but still has work to do. I've had awful experiences with residential centers in Utah so the bar is very low. The staff here are kind although as a patient there's a level of advocacy you need to have as the staff seem too busy a lot of the time, presumably due to understaffing. There are some exceptional staff who did a particularly good job at making me feel human and cared for. my case manager was difficult to get ahold of. I wish she were more transparent about what she's working on that's making her too busy to talk since I didnt see her for most of my stay. I do also wish she didn't interrupt in conversation as much. But she did take my wishes for discharge into account Phones aren't allowed due to HIPAA privacy so I drew some views inside the unit. The rooms and hallways are very spacious and each bedroom has its own bathroom. Multiple people used wheelchairs and there was ample space for everyone to get around

The staff was incredible. My daughter finally had someone who actually listened to her.

If I could give 0 stars I would. This hospital is NOT a place for healing, if you come here there is a 99.99% chance of leaving with PTSD. It's been a little over a year since I was there, it's taken me this long to muster up the courage to leave a review. I still have nightmares about being there. While I was there, my body was violated by the staff members! I was horrified they didn't tell me what they were doing. They just put me in a small room and did their thing. No one talked to me. No one explained anything to me. I was so dehydrated no one told me how to get water. I thought I wasn't allowed to have water. I thought I wasn't allowed to have hygiene products. No one told me that I was allowed to have them. Nobody gave me any hygiene products. All they do there is drug you. I never meet the doctor, how can I take meds when I don't even know the side effects or what I'm being given and without meeting with a doctor. They're drugging you, What seems to be almost every few hours. You were guaranteed to go through withdrawal when you leave. My biggest problem is no one listen to me. It seems like no one there spoke English and if they did they had such a heavy accent, You couldn't understand anything they were saying. The only time any staff members who actually spoke English came out was during visiting day. This place will make you feel like you're going crazy. There is nothing to do but stare at the walls being trapped with. Your thoughts is scary. There's nothing to stimulate your brain. Literally nothing. They take away everything. You can't do anything but stare at the walls. The human brain needs stimulation. I don't know how many staff members I told this but over and over again to different staff members I told them that I have dyslexia I cannot read. So every time they gave me paperwork and I told them I didn't want to sign it because I didn't know what I was reading. They forced me to sign it anyways. I asked if they could please read it to me and they didn't. They told me to just sign it, It was fine. I am not comfortable with the fact that I have no idea what I signed. I felt very forced to sign paperwork. I I don't even know what I signed. I have a reader on my phone so I'm able to have my phone read to me what's on my screen and I use text to speech. This is how I get around. I also have some serious medical conditions, one of which almost got me killed while I was in there. Thank goodness my roommate was there. She saved me. Staff members were completely useless. If it hadn't been for my roommate, I probably would have died. Also no one told me how to use the phone. No one told me that there was a passcode to put into the phone before putting in the phone number you want. So I thought the whole time I was being locked out of the phone that I wasn't allowed to use it. Little did I know you just needed the passcode the passcode that no one told me. So the only time I could talk to my family is if they called me because I was unable to call them. Apparently they gave it to me on a piece of paper, a piece of paper I could not read! After my roommate got released i was scared for my safety and I told my family this on the phone. My family helped me and told me about AMA. If you get sent to this place I highly suggest you get AMA it means you can leave. They don't tell you this mostly because they don't tell you anything. I can sincerely say this place is not safe. This place is not okay for people with disabilities. This place is not okay for people with medical issues. This place is not okay for anyone! This place should be shut down! There's so many more things that happened there that I'm not putting in this review. So much happened that it is not possible for all of it to fit. I should probably just make a book actually explaining everything. Probably make a movie! I hope for the people who are in there right now survived this place so-called "hospital".

Help me with my mania big time

I was in for 11 days due to self harm, suicidal ideation and was generally not stable. The staff were incredible. Ousman was always positive and happy, zemen always was open to have a talk, benson was also super talkative (even though he liked to use air quotes a lot) ali was amazing and so were the staff in the kitchen. Mental health staff go through so much abuse it's not even funny. They genuinely want to help and yet people scream at them because they actually have to put in the work to get better and they don't want to. The only problem I had while I was there was the dietician. She did not know how to put in a diet restriction for a gastric bypass patient and when I would try to explain it, she would talk over me and not listen. So almost the entire stay there I could barely eat anything but the kitchen staff were really sweet and tried their best. I also would have my meds switched and stuff and I wasn't communicated with about some of it but I'm much more stable. It is also really hard to read the case managers writing so I can't read my diagnosis and I'm trying to get a copy of my medical records so I have them and do do my outpatient providers.

The staff are overworked and major oversights can happen. They continuously raised the dose of a medication, despite me reporting extreme side effects. The pharmacy also smelled like urine. They said they'd lower the dose because I didn't even need to be on this substance, and they forgot. They don't make voluntary stays easy to leave either. I felt trapped most of the time and it didn't feel like mental health care. I gave two stars because it wasn't all bad. I made friends with many of the fellow patients and the food was uncharacteristically good.