Milwaukee County Mental Health

Giving one star because it is the lowest option. I would literally give them -10 stars if I could. I was in there for 3 months and they could never figure out a diagnosis or treatment plan, at the moment of dicharge I was a hot mess and to this day I still have horrible flashbacks if I even need to drive to that part of town. Management and doctors were horrible. I remember some of the nurses that took care of me and they are the only ones I can say were actually making an effort. It is hard to treat people with dignity when you rely on direction and treatment plans from incompetent doctors.

This place is horrible. They like to over medicate people they treat patients like they aren't humans. They don't have proper food. Just isn't a good place to be. There are better mental health facilities where, patients are treated with decently.

The amount of gross incompetence that we have experienced at this place completely baffles me. Never have I seen a more disorganized s*** show in my entire life. Unfortunately, this POS government facility is where anyone is brought for initial treatment so there is no escaping the complete waste of space that is this facility. If you have a family member at this place, GET THEM AWAY.

The reason for my review is a personal experience when I was admitted to this place I felt like I've I was being treated like an animal this place sent me into a deep depression it made it very hard for me to trust others and even trust public officials usually I have a very big respect for the men and women that protect our nation this place in a couple of others made me see things in a different light but it didn't change my optimism that are good men and women that protect our nation that's why I called for a personal welfare check of this entity in a couple more like it not just. For the patients but the staff when I was admitted I felt a very weird tension even fear from the staff point of view as if they were scared of something to be fair some of the staff were respectful but they all still carry that sense of fear it's a very interesting dynamic when it came to the night staff I think it needs to be a overall review on the mental health stability of all parties sincerely I hope that we can work as a community to change these things

I have a son with schizophrenia and a few serious head injuries. The left hand doesn't talk to the right. I think that almost everyone in Milwaukee, including the employees at this entity, must be lead-poisoned, given how stupid, uncritical, incurious, and apathetic they are. They appear to be incapable of engaging in problem solving, and offer stupid solutions such as "if you feel afraid, you should call the police," when I am discussing a seriously ill child who previously attempted to commit suicide by cop in front of my very eyes. Also, they lose paperwork, and then don't offer to straighten out the mistake they made.

My son is there and his staff was polite on the phone and his nurse is a phenomenal women. I never trusted this place because my brother died due to neglect, but; my son? I pray they got this.

Unfortunately I can't give a 0 star. My aunt had been in and out of hospitals for the past 2 months as the psych's kept clearing her. She was brought to Mental Health by police, she informed them she thought she was being poisoned and that witches were putting barnacles in her head. Per their records she asked to stay inpatient, but they told her she did not meet criteria to stay inpatient. After her refusal to leave, the sheriff's deputy dropped her and her walker off at a bus stop within view of Mental Health . She sat on the bus stop from 8:22 am on 3/10/22 until she was found laying on the ground on 3/12/22 at 3:15 am. She ended up with frostbite and legs were literally frozen. After a month in the hospital she died.