William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital

"Horrible place, staff abuses patients, criminal activity constantly, not to mention the bugs, and mice. They constantly house patients in pairs of 4 in rooms meant for 2 people. Law Enforcement is either crooked or can't do anything this place needs leveled and criminal charges should be filed against everyone especially the director"

"This place is horrible at times they hang up on you when you ask a question cause they can’t figure out to transfer you to the right person and their phone systems are almost always not working properly and the voicemail is broken as the switch board stated always a issue with this place if it’s not the care of the patients it’s the staffs rude behavior and them not knowing the system dhhr needs to get it together before this place ends up shut down"

"Honestly? This is all you really need to know about this place… From Metro News: A health service worker at a state-run psychiatric hospital was charged with strangling a patient, and four more workers were fired over allegations that they participated in patient abuse or watched it happen. The abuse happened this fall at William R. Sharpe Hospital in Lewis County, according to a criminal complaint and a state report on the events there. The situation was first reported by the nearby Shinnston News and Harrison County Journal. Staff member Michael Coleman, 22, was charged with abuse or neglect of an incapacitated adult and strangulation. He was accused of pushing a patient with a traumatic brain injury onto a bed from behind and then getting on top of the man. “The attack appeared unprovoked,” a State Police trooper wrote in the criminal complaint."

"I would not go to this hospital again. This hospital was so bad that I got sick enough to get shot up eight times. The staff did not intervene with fights naked patients. Gave showers in groups forcefully. Left garbage in laundry carts. Gnats everywhere body fluids were put on walls and windows on the floor patients were hitting and punching walls. Bouncing heads off walls. Sitting of sprinklers. . Innocent patients who were innocent bystanders almost got hurt good luck I personally hate this hosital"

"Got two chairs thrown at my head on my first day there within twenty minutes of each other. Day five, I saw a helpless 18 year old severely autistic patient get verbally abused by another patient and staff did nothing, only stepped in when another patient yelled at the abuser and gave the hero “booty juice” and restrained him to his bed for three and half hours, causing him to miss lunch and 2pm snack and they didn’t touch the abuser. Day 11, another girl started taking my crayons and coloring books without asking and she broke all my crayons when I asked for them back. She didn’t even get punished. Day 13, had a mental breakdown due to the amount of people (N1 was severely overcrowded, with like three or four patients to a room meant for two) in my unit and all they did was give me an atavan shot in both arms and hype me up on some pills. Day 17, watched staff restrain a girl for her getting angry at them for denying her a haircut (N1 got one every two weeks). Another girl was laughing at her but didn’t get into any trouble. Day 18, had a girl yell at me for no reason whatsoever for having an absent seizure (I stare off into blank space when I have them and have no control of where or who I’m “staring” at) and she almost got me in trouble but wound up getting “booty juice” for trying to fight a staff member. Was here for twenty three days and this place didn’t help me. On top of everything, the place was full of bugs and I basically had to become a vegetarian due to how awful the food was all I ate there was salads, which hurt my digestive tract in the long run."