Morton Plant North Bay Hospital- Recovery Center - Land O' Lakes, Florida

Rese Thomas

Just discharged today. Writing review while memory is fresh.

I found 95% of the staff to be just fine! They were laid back and funny. I appreciated that.

The facility was horrible. Beds that are so broken down you basically are sleeping on a hard plastic thing. No real door to the bathroom. It's foam and open at the top and bottom like a public restroom stall. I overheard staff talking about them shutting down the unit I was in soon for renovation because of black mold, mold they had known about since 2014!! They intentionally keep the temperature in the 60's and almost everybody was freezing all the time. Staff frequently wore jackets during their shifts even. They place ankle monitoring bracelets on everyone. I don't understand since it's a locked unit anyways. Felt like an animal.

And y'all need to stop with that "Jesus loves you" shit. I have my religious preferences clearly set to atheist on my chart (you even confirmed with me upon admission!) and did not appreciate that.

If it wasn't for your amazing weekend staff, I'd be looking into lawsuits.

Ryleigh Lynch (Rai)

Stayed here for a week in 4th grade. I did what I had always been told to do and sought help when I experienced suicidal thoughts. However, instead of support, I was met with accusations of making my mental illness up. One nurse and two doctors told me it seemed like I wasn't truly there because I needed help. One even told me he thought I "got something out of being sick".
After I was discharged, the doctors told my mom to confiscate all my personal belongings, such as my phone, books, and art supplies; effectively cutting me off from any support network or coping skill I had previously.
Overall, my mental health was worse coming out of the hospital than it was going in, and I am still in the process of recovering on my own. If anyone is going through a crisis, I do not recommend coming to this hospital specifically.

ciro .

i just got discharged from this place, and i wanted to give my honest opinion on this.

some of the nurses were nice, and i loved certain techs, but overall i have to give this a 2/5 rating. we were not allowed to talk to other patients, all we did was sit and watch tv for hours straight, we did not participate in ANY group therapy, and they still expected us to behave and enjoy our visit there. i expect that this isn’t my last visit here, but i hope you guys put in the effort to actually do some activities that will help your patients instead of making them sit and watch tv.

kaz asf

i was a patient back here in 2021, so this may not be as accurate as today. however, the reviews i read from over the years seem to be exactly the same as my experience. we were sat in a common room, watching TV for about 5-8 hours a day. we’d see the therapist for less than five minutes a day, and received little to no group therapy or any sort of help.
another thing to note was the fact that the whole week there, a boy with autism was kept in his room for my entire visit, occasionally screaming and retaliating against nurses, obviously not in an environment suitable for him. every other time i walked past his room, he’d be restrained and being injected with a sedative.
whenever in the common room, some patients would try and make conversation, which would be quickly followed by a nurse shushing or yelling to be quiet. i don’t find how connecting with your peers is unacceptable, but sitting in silence watching property brothers for 6 hours is an acceptable form of therapy?

charles hellenberg

CHOOSE THIS PATH WITH GREAT CONSIDERATION!!

This place is a machine. The easiest way to describe this place and the only way you should view it is as a robot with soft gloves, that moves your loved ones through an automated staff and drops them the moment their responsabiluties are checked off on a list. Do not take it out on the staff. They are an emotionless machine with a smiley face stapled over their tormented face that has had to deal with some of the worst people, parents and horrible outcomes that only their profession can handle. They have to be that way or the job will eat their souls.

To the staff, I get it but even a machine can be compassionate. I could see your compassion ends the moment you check that box on your checklist. It's a wonder we have a mental health crisis in this country when we have emotionally destroy people triaging and treating mentally destroyed people. The health care in America is disgusting. And I haven't even thought what this is going to cost me! Mentally, physically and financially.

Chose this path with great consideration!

Ariana Sprowl

I was here for a short time as a patient, I want to start off with the fact that they will keep people in their medical gowns for so long in those freezing temperatures they have in there which felt like torture for me and a lot of the other patients there with me.

My second complaint would be that there are hardly any books or activities there besides watching the TV. A lot of the movies played were psychological thrillers, and very gory violent films (I really don’t think that is the correct environment for such movies), and I don’t understand the good that sitting around all day watching the tv is doing for anyone there.

The food is prison grade food, and they told us we had 30 minutes to eat our meals but we were rushed to eat in 15 min.
I am a slow eater because it physically hurts me to scarf up my food.

There is also a sheet on the wall telling us what time we had group activities and outdoor time but we never had either. Why have that sheet up if it is not followed?

The time that everyone spends with the Dr. in counseling is about 5 min per day…
Now with all this said, how is this type of community supposed to provide us with the help we were taken there to get?

One good thing I will say is that the nurses were very nice to me and I do appreciate that but the management has to improve. Or you’re just sending people who need help back home with nothing but the required time spent there to sign them away and wash your hands of them.

Alyssa Torres

I don’t care i don’t care I will forever write a review till Justice is served? Everybody just left the situation alone I still wanna know how my brother was able to kill himself and nobody watched him nobody cared do not send your kids here my brother was on suicidal watvh so I’m not understanding how y’all let a 13yr old kill himself my heart hurts y’all took my only brother for me I been grieving and grieving this place needs to be shut down and investigated it’s no way for years this place been getting bad reviews and it’s still open. How would yu feel to lose your only little brother at 13 when we sent him for help not to lose him. My heart hurts and one day I will get Justice for my brother. Let’s not mention when tagged on social media they will Blocked and delete your comments. And they had the nerve to send the police to my mom house because we was raising awareness on social media please please please somebody help me get Justice for my brother #longliveisaiah can’t belive my baby took his last breath in this miserable place

Maria Gonzalez

Staff is rude & they didn’t give me medication for 3 days I was withdrawing & I was vomiting & had uncontrollable diarrhea & their staff nurse Rebecca yelled in my face told me I was doing too much & raised her hand to hit me also I was isolated in a room due to me having these horrible symptoms Rebecca yelled & said you’re worst then a dog I told them I need professional help once again Rebecca yelled how much she couldn’t stand me & that if I shut up maybe I would get what I needed. Rebecca also said how she hated my guts because her boyfriend left her for a young Spanish girl like me & I reminded her about her. They left me without showering for days I felt disgusted & had rashes. I feel & hit my head is when they finally rushed me to the hospital the staff questioned if I really had fallen & Jackie also know as kitty said yes & demonstrated how I fell & need urgent care. The only people that looked out for me & took care of me one on one was Jackie & Calvin they would constantly ask Calvin if they could take over watching & caring for me & Calvin said no & I’ll say no always. Calvin told me that if anyone else watches me that they would harm me & I didn’t deserve the way I was being treated. Patients her are overly medicated & yelled at for asking questions the nurse & staff didn’t want to be bothered. This place needs to be shut down & Rebecca & the staff along side of her as well fired!