My spouse was admitted here despite being discharged by a doctor already, and then held until an entirely different doctor could evaluate and discharge her. Horrible miscommunication that led to my wife being unable to come home and go back to work.

The place is overall okay. My experience was decent. The food is good, and the rooming is pretty clean. The staff on the other hand wasn’t so nice. A lot of times they were demanding towards the psych patients and rude to us for no reason.

This is a very helpful place that provides you with coping skills and therapy so that you are able to live your life happily again. You can actually have fun here even though you’re in an in-patient psychiatric hospital. Does not feel like a prison like Mountain View Hospital.

Amazing place with top notch staff. They have a gym you go to everyday to shoot basketball, lift weights, or do yoga type stuff. The grounds are well run. Youll paint, do crafts, listen to music, learn about your illness. The actual medical care is top notch. See a doctor everyday (not a resident). The nurses are all compassionate and dedicated. The techs are cool if your chill they are chill. They give Suboxone if you need it. They let you stay on methadone if your on it already. Ive been there a number of times as a patient and I will not go anywhere else in Birmingham. The other hospitals are terrible compared to uabThe only downside is everyone wants to go here so youll spend a little time in the ER waiting on a bed.

When I was 15, which was 5 years ago, I was hospitalized here. I don’t know if they still have the same rules and what not but It was honestly very helpful and I felt like I was being cared for. I was a troubled teen and was in and out of other mental hospitals that left me with PTSD. However, UAB was the best and I would recommend going here over any of the others faculties. You don’t feel like a mentally ill patient here! (Unlike the other mental hospitals)

The food is really good but the staff isnt very friendly

I just got out of this hospital about 3 weeks ago for attempting suicide, and it was the second psych ward ive been to, my 3rd time going to one. i will say compared to the other hospital i went to this one was pretty great. it actually made a difference in my life and, although there were incidents where other patients went off the wall and got into arguments (i have ptsd from domestic violence and abuse so that gave me anxiety attacks) i know that we all had our own problems and other than that everything was fine. there were one or two nurses that didnt have the best attitude and came off rude, but the majority seemed very caring and actually talked to the kids like we were actual humans which seems to be rare in places like that. the occupational therapy we did was really useful and taught us to occupy our minds with things we enjoy doing and saved all the personal talk for the therapist/doctor. i can honestly say i learned a lot from this facility :)

I was visiting yesterday and visitation hours are from 6-8. It was exactly 8:00 and they told us visitation was over, so as we got up to leave we asked who his nurse was because we wanted to speak to her. (He had just been admitted around midnight the same day) Another nurse looked at us and says Ok well its still 8:00 oclock in a very rude tone, like it doesnt matter we need to leave. 8:00 oclock or not, we have every right to speak with whoever his nurse is. The hospital does not close at 8, just visitation hours and the nurse did come out to speak in the hallway, but that other nurse was very rude and unprofessional. If she acted like that with us then Im sure shes even worse with the patients. I would like to file a formal complaint, but Im not sure who I should contact and I didnt get her name, but I would definitely recognize her.

Jessie Odell in regards to our autistic son George.Well we were singing dr Kathrine sherry Freeman’s praises until we had to burry my granddaddy today who had been sick with cancer. Our son was in her care, and after checking him in, our granddaddy took a turn. I called Dr Kathrine freeman to advice we would be checking our son out for the funeral so he could say goodbye to the only granddaddy he has ever known since he is adopted. Dr Kathrine Freeman said she wouldn’t advise that. I told her I appreciated her advice but we’d still be taking our son to the funeral as that is what families do in Alabama. Evidently she isn’t from the south? She had already explained her it was her opinion that my son didn’t understand anything. My son is autistic with a low iq. He understands just fine, the issue is figuring out how he processes things. On top of her calling Alabama’s dhr supervisor in an attempt to block me from taking our son, she also attempted to issues an AMA (against medical advice) which could cause our insurance company toReject the charges, and refused to send any prescriptions for the mental health drugs my son receives. When your childHas been on mental health drugs for moreThan a week or so it’s very dangerous to stop them cold turkey. Luckily our family physician is able to help us so my son wouldn’t suffer from withdrawal symptoms, such as seizures and other issues. I fear for the safety of other children at this facility under her care who’s parents may not have the means to reach out to a trusted family dr to help in the event she does this vindictive, and unprofessional behavior to someone else’s child.About the time my granddaddy’s service was over today she had her secretary call our cell phone to inform us that since we removed our son from the hospital she would no longer be able to work with us and took it upon herself to cancel all my son’s appointments at Ireland Center.Mrs Ireland has been a friend to my family for years and this isn’t the kind of legacy for helping children she would have chosen to leave behind.It appears this dr seems to miss the point that the parent is the one who makes decisions. Dr’s are hired to (advise), this doesn’t mean we will always agree with what they advise. Especially when the death of a loved one is concerned. At this point we are now filing a formal complaint with the Alabama Board to review this Dr’s lack of professionalism and dangerous practice of dropping a patient without necessary mind altering medications.I’m really disappointed that she turned out not to be the caring dr we thought her to be and instead a very dangerous one.Jessie Odell

Worked there as a staff nurse and would again. Great place to work!! Great people , staff and doctors!!

The business office, specifically the billing office, will send you straight to collections even though your account is still being adjusted by your health insurer (which UAB provides to their students) and by the time you pay the account and ask that it be removed from the record considering the whole process was done incorrectly, they get upset because you are not to question their poor communication with the outside vendors they hired to harass you.

In order to be admitted into this hospital they MAKE you go through the ER. It took us 9 hours of waiting to be seen, only to be told oh well heres some other medicine, try it and follow up with your normal doctor. If you want to be admitted just threaten suicide because thats the only way to get in.