Springfield Hospital Center

To Salomon Building and Patient Liason (social worker) Alexis Hunter. My name is Yiriyah-people call me Ms. Shannon. I'm sending my biggest, deepest THANKS from Houston TX. My son, Michael, stayed in your care 6 months. Ms. Hunter kept me in-the-know, even though my son is an adult. Every time my son called, he sounded better and BETTER. The RELIEF that overcame my soul when he said, "momma, they're good to me. They take really good care of US." He recognized that every patient received the same standard of care. I'm in a well of grateful tears preparing this post. I work in the service industry, meeting many people who are new to Houston TX who rave about the help they receive here. This hasn't been the case for my son when he needed them. Whatever they prescribed, we couldn't find him several days and when we did he was too thin, had been fighting and kept asking "what's wrong with me? Momma, What happened to me?" I spoke to the Houston social worker about the meds being too strong-she did nothing. When dealing with the male assigned to him via social security, the guy didn't believe me about my son's circumstances-he hung up on me, wouldn't return my calls and closed my son's case. When Springfield received my son, he was worse than back to square one. He wasn't trying to be a burden. He wasn't himself.

Michael is a loving father.

He is trying Houston services again. I'm fearful, but there's no other option and he wants to be near his children and myself. I can't blame him for wanting family-as good as your facility was (to and for) him.

Thank you, each and every one, who worked at Salomon's Building. Thank you, Alexis Hunter. My son looks good and sounds GREAT.

From The Depths Of My Heart,
Thank You, Springfield Gems 💎✨

My brother has been receiving treatment here for just about 2 years. The staff has been extremely courteous not only to our family but to the patients. I am very impressed by the dignity that they give to the patients here. I visit weekly as do the rest of my family and have witnessed the kindness the staff has bestowed on the patients. My brother has improved greatly due to the medications, counseling, diet, and daily routines. I most highly recommend this hospital and would hope to have more facilities like this available.

My family has nothing but good things to say. My brother finally was able to get the support he needed. They were able to work with him on his medications to find a regiment that worked for him. They have been a godsend. It's been a long time since I saw the man he used to be. Thank you so much for giving me back my brother! He hasn't looked, felt or sounded this good in 20+ years.

I loved working at Springfield for my 6 month music therapy internship. The staff I worked with were great, they worked hard to provide quality care, and I learned so much as a student there. I am so grateful for the internship program, and so glad to meet the wonderful patients, lead groups for them, and work with a few patients individually. Truly a great experience.

Great place to work, It is the only hospital I know where you can be employed for more than 50 years. There are wonderful staff who still work there after 50 years and are in their 80s. There is a chance of getting hurt by a patient but this can happen at any health facility.

I loved it there. That was a very long time ago, and the buildings I stayed in have been left to decay, sadly. The most beautiful was Warfield Cottage.

I like the people here.

Why all reviews are so bad?
I was there with major depression and psychosis. The doctor was amazing! They gave me the RIGHT pills right away (compared to other 2 hospitals that couldn’t do anything…), and I started feeling back normal in about 2-3 weeks.

Yes, it’s not cool to be there, especially for a long time, but… Sometimes you just don’t have a choice. Good luck and stay healthy!

Is this place still running? I would love to come and explore, its showing up as abandoned but these reviews are saying otherwise.

I was there in the eighties. The patients were nice, but they had bad problems. I don’t understand how humiliating patients help them. A psychiatric nurse made fun of my acne, but it wasn’t so bad so I ignored it. I wish that the hospital helped me with my sleep disorder and deprivation. I think that I needed to be there longer. It was a mistake that I was discharged after only four months even though I didn’t like it there. I planned to work with wood if the people there decided to change their mind. I remember having really bad painful cramps during my period. The worse thing that happened is that I was not given medicine for physical pain. After being
I did not want anyone to really know why I was there. I guess that I was psychotic from sleep deprivation. The bad part is that hospital is not a place to help people with sleep issues. I don’t know about now, but in the eighties, they could not figure out how to help. I was young. I was sensitive. I do believe that I did get better in time by being patient with myself. Maybe it seems horrible because when we are a patient, we don’t feel well. Hopefully I will never return. My therapist told me that it is now a forensic hospital, but I don’t believe everything I hear.

I just want to give an update. After almost 10 years of my mother being there I got her out and as soon as she gets out and finds the right doctor it’s like a 180.
They over Medicate you and treat patients and their families like trash. I’m still trying to get my mother’s money and other things from them. Do what you have to, to not let anyone you love or even hate to be placed here.

DO NOT TRUST THIS PLACE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!!

Whoever does their human resources doesn't bother to vet or check on their employees. The support staff is more dangerous and mentally ill patients. There is a night manager that is abusive to the girls who work under her as well as the patients, after working under Catherine Harrison three months I needed therapy! She goes in and is paid to sleep! She doesn't do anything she is supposed to, she's mean and she abuses the patients who are unable to stand up to her. It's now coming out that she's even done the same to people in her personal life. This place is not to be trusted!

Rushes discharge. No one returns calls. Puts your loved one in places that are not best for their condition. My child was place in a home that had no supervision. Just someone to administer meds. No transportation to therapy or family connection. Horrible....and this is the "state hospital"

I'm not or was never a patient of this facility. However, after a month of being unable to obtain a medication I needed and being new to the area, I was calling any place I could think of to try and find help or resources. Mind you, I needed psychiatric help for a mental disorder)I was looking for hospitals near me and I just tried calling this place. I got someone on the phone and tried to communicate that I was in distress and looking for medical help/resources. I was promptly informed that they were a psychiatric facility and they were unable to help. I asked for a number for a local hospital or ER and I was told to look that up on my phone. I just screamed at the lady, "Can you do anything to help me?" She curtly responded with a No Ma'am. I won't lie, I told her to eff off. But I was appalled that a person in distress asking for help from a medical facility was that dismissed. Especially when a person suffering from mental Illness and they are a psychiatric facility

I can not believe the terrible reviews I read about this hospital. My son is in there eating nasty food with mold around him. I am so upset I can’t see straight! I will get him out of there even if I have to take it to the Supreme Court. People that work there should be ashamed for treating patients inhuman. This place should be shut down ASAP

First, I would like to say if I could give this "hospital" zero start I would. My mother has been at this facility since 2012. At this time I was in college pursuing my degree in social work. This hospital is a horrible place for persons coping with mental illness' along with their family members. They treat the patients in the hospital as if they are prisoners, disregarding them, verbally abusing them, and using them and test subjects for medicines and diagnosis'. When they speak to the family members and lack professionalism, empathy, and they try to use scare tactics to get family members to do what they want them to do. The doctors do not communicate or review patient charts to know basic information. My mom has moved unites 5 or so times and each time I have to give BASIC information such as her birthday, how ling she had been in the facility, her history of how she got there, etc. One time the social worker was filing for her social security card and called me to ask her birth date, shouldn't that information be in her chart? I have explained to the doctors countless times my mothers triggers, they continue to put her in a environment that triggers her violent psychotic episodes, that can totally be avoided. They do not communicate with the somatic hospital, because of their failure to communicate my mother has had ammonia poisoning. I have had doctors there tell me " if you were there for your mother she wouldn't be going through this", " you are selfish and only thinking of yourself", " do you want your mother to die". Each of these statements have been on the first time of me speaking to Dr. Jasmine & Dr.Reyes-Soto. They lack professionalism. Dr.Jasmine left SPHC and ended up working the the same clinic that I worked at as a social worker. I was not informed that she left and my mother was receiving a new psychiatrist, which I should have been because I am the legal guardian, I knew because she ended up working with me. I went up to the hospital for a meeting to address the issue and the new psychiatrist Dr.Nawaka was trying to get me to tell her where Dr.Jasmine worked and what her position was. I know I am everywhere with this but I have so many years of this hospital and there lack of concern for their patient, my Mother. Recently, I did not consent to a surgery that they wanted my mother to have because I wanted to research, talk to the gyn, talk to my mother, and make an informed decision. Dr.Nawaka serves me with papers threatening to take me to court. This hospital is not used to family members that care advocating on the patients behalf. If you do not comply with what they want you to do they will try to use scare tactics to get you to do what they want. Recently, my mother was sent to the somatic hospital emergency room for SFHC. There was a "nurse" sitting with her from SFHC on her phone the whole time. My mother had been there from 5 am and had not eaten the entire day. Why didn't the nurse advocate for her? My mom is a diabetic. Also, my mom didn't get any of her meds while at the somatic hospital that day my mom is diabetic, has high blood pressure, and has psychiatric drugs she should be taken. Why didn't the "nurse" from SFHC advocate for her. I am tired of the treatment from this "hospital" and the lies being told on me. I do not trust them with my mother's care. I asked for records of a incident and Uris told me I could not have them, THIS IS A LIE!!!! Please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors.