My son is currently inpatient at an acute psychiatric care facility called Rockford Center in Newark, Delaware. Rockford Center is owned by Universal Health Services (UHS), a for-profit mega healthcare corporation with locations nationwide. UHS does not operate as they claim to and they bill for services not rendered. They do not adhere to state regulations and patient rights are disregarded. While UHS makes sure to keep up with outward appearances, their patients- vulnerable adults and young children- are behind closed doors and at the mercy of those who serve them.

This is not news to UHS or it's facilities.

UHS has disregarded the patient safety and recovery of the patients it serves, as well as the communities in which it operates. Poor case management and understaffing at UHS facilities have led to adverse patient outcomes including:

-Sexual exploitation and abuse
-Runaways
-Inappropriate reliance on restraints and seclusion
-Physical assaults
-Medication errors
-Insufficient discharge planning
-Failure to properly identify and treat barriers to recover

In many instances, poor case management and understaffing at UHS behavioral health facilities has led to physical or sexual assaults, patients running away, and at times, death. UHS has placed its patients in jeopardy with its inappropriate use of seclusion and restraints, its pattern of medication errors and incomplete or inaccurate treatment and discharge planning. UHS’ profit-driven model of behavioral health care has forced communities to use resources to respond to emergencies that UHS has created. Several UHS facilities across the nation have been forced by authorities to stop admissions, often due to understaffing.

If a UHS facility is not already located in your community, there is a good chance UHS will be coming to your community in the near future. It is essential to the public interest that consumers of behavioral healthcare be protected against abuses by those whose custody they are remanded.

Who needs a real psychiatrist, when you can have a fake one?​

United States V. Universal Health Services and yet, the violations continue.

Former Presidents of the American Psychological Association had to say this...​

UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES (UHS) A LOOK INTO FOR-PROFIT INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE​

Check your state for UHS locations