Homewood Health Centre

I have travelled to 45 countries and worked in 20. I really like living on planet earth. Homewood is the worst place I ever ever seen. My brother had a psychotic break and got me forcibly committed. I had literally nothing wrong with me, and they gaslight and abused me for 24 hours, trying to find something wrong with me. I followed up with them about this for a year and they never responded. Absolutely terrible. I went in feeling fine, thinking I would have a laugh with them about my delusional brother, and left severely traumatized.

Private Corporation. Monney making enterprise. Management largely absent. Someone should report them under "Protection of Public Participation Act" Unhappy staff - 100 Open vacancies attest to that. Will you get good care?

Racist Culture 2.0 . This place is a cess pool of racist attitudes towards Indigenous and black people by staff and clients.It is not a safe space.This is shameful considering the contract are from large cities and terroities.If you are a person who is not white dont agree to go here. Clients using racial slurs while watching sports. And Inuit and First nations being profiled differently than the white people. Its like an old boys club attitude. There needs to be accountability to making patients feel unsafe thatn it affects trust that hinders treatment goals. Its like we have stepped back in time the attitudes are as old as the buildings

Do not under any circumstance use the services of this organization. They are BY FAR the worst company I have ever worked with and would not recommend their services to anyone. If you are in need of mental health services this is NOT the company you will want to go with they are a bargain bin organization.

I trusted the program and the medical staff. I was pushed into taking a medication that I was hesitant to take from the start. No one listened and I finally had to give in. I was told, there was a very low chance you will gain weight. So I ignored all of the reviews online and in books. Within 5 months of taking the medication I had gained over 50 lbs. 10 to 20 of which I probably gained the two months I was there. I didn’t seem to notice because I thought I was doing better. The psychiatrist or the nurses didn’t think to weight me before I started and weight me during. I’m so angry, and hate my body now. I never had a weight issue, I was never overweight, I didn’t have a eating problem, never had to diet before I went to homewood. This place is the reason my body is unrecognizable to me. After a year of stoping the medication, I’m still no closer to my original weight or body type. I’ve had to deal with body image issues that I didn’t have before. I’m upset and cry a lot about how fat I look, I can’t wear any of the clothes I have, I hide myself indoors. I’m very angry that I listened to medical staff that didn’t care if I gained weight or not. They just wanted me get better quick so I left “looking better”. To anyone that is going, my advice is to do your own research and don’t trust everything the medical staff tell you. Medication is not the only treatment for mental illnesses. Advocate for yourself, ask questions, don’t just accept and take a medication you’re not comfortable taking. Please, I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’ve been through and still going through. Started meds November to March , within 5 months I gained 50 pounds. I went in homewood at 135-140lbs and when I stopped the meds I was 190lbs. This weight gain completely changed my body mass index, the shape of my body, the size of clothes I wear. It’s hurt my self confidence. I’m overweight and can’t move the way I used to, eat the way I used to, wear the same clothes I used to. This medication was evil, and no one should take it that’s not in old age. What would have helped and wouldn’t have lead me to a 50 pound weight gain is if my weight was monitored. I truly believe it should have been, because the medication was known to cause weight gain more than others. That would have been proper medical care. Don’t leave your health in this places hands, they honestly don’t care, they want your money and then for you to leave and hope that you don’t complain about the terrible treatment. I will forever hate the psychiatrist that prescribed me these terrible horrible meds.

I arrived at Homewood yesterday to intake early. No doctor available. Show up a 8. No doctor available. They call me back at 8:30 and I go to intake and then have to wait in line. My intake time was 8:00 am. If I had of drove myself...I would have went home after the second time of intake. Its the second day and I've been up since 2am cause they check your room every 2hrs. I've been struggling hard to get here and all I want to do is get treatment! And all I can do is stay in my room aka prison cell. I came here for help and all I have recieved is minor conversation with doctors, a schedule with nothing really on it.a room to rest my head and food in tummy. It would be nice to recieve some kind of acknowledgement and help! Instead of me sitting in my room twiddling my thumbs to Death! I like how the owner only replys to positive feedback from patients. Jokes! Still waiting on Treatment. Very slow process. Did I mention the lack of sleep? I'm left irritable and discontent every night I've been here. Meds and ear plugs are the trick... NOT! I feel as though I have to abort this program soon. I am unable to function properly and not able to do my programing effectively for me. If I can't sleep well then I can't function properly and the Dr's should know this. I dont know who to ask for help anymore.

This place is an absolute DISAPPOINTMENT. Zero help. You can just print off papers, lock yourself in your room at home, and do NA or AA zoom meetings. Other than that we watched a few Ted Talk videos. I should have believed these reviews and what I heard people in AA share about this place before I came. They really sound nice over the phone, but once you're here staff is rude. A few of the nurses are nice, but everyone in management doesn't care about actually helping you with addiction so the ones that do can't help because their hands are tied. Go literally ANYWHERE else!

A very for profit institution that spends too much time trying to look good and not enough time trying to listen and change. The Eating Disorder Unit is underfunded and overworked. 3 core members of staff left in the 3 months I was there and I understand why. At the same time the nurses on staff could be mean frankly. One nurse in the ED unit said i needed to 'learn how to differentiate' when I said I was having trouble hearing the name of my recently deceased sister daily. They say they offer trauma support but you have to 'qualify' however no one did in the entire 13 weeks I was there. Multiple people left the eating disorder program early because it wasn't helping them. No understanding that exercise is healthy, it's just banned entirely for the first few weeks at lest that you're there regardless of your weight. No meal or meal ingredients could be substituted unless you had an allergy. A little meal flexibility in the eating disorder unit would go a long way. The cups they sent for our meals were frequently cloudy, marked or had physical residue on the inside but when this was mentioned they said "all items are sanitized". I suppose the glasses and everything go to the kitchen and they just send them through the sanitizing machine. Instead of washing items that have residue or staining they just run them through the machine and send them out after. Regardless of the actual residue on the items they send to our unit to use. After mentioning this problem a few times they just got new cups.They gave the wrong dose or wrong medication to multiple people multiple times, they gave me the wrong level of my epilepsy medication at least 4 times. They frequently had "off unit" nurses who were genuinely confused about rules and schedules. Because Homewood couldn't consistently have 2 eating disorder nurses for 1 inpatient unit of 12-18 patients. Just... a lot went wrong in this unit of a very for profit institution. They have staff shortages, stains in bedsheets, dirty glasses but they also have a whole gardening squad for this enormous property except you cant even use all of it anyways depending on what unit you're in. Plus the laundry is still coin operated.