Intermountain Behavioral Health Access Center - McKay-Dee

"Some people are amazing but do not go at night the phycirtrist will not be there help you and they dont have a therapist talk too too so good luck."

"I went in after a crisis at the recommendation from my physciatrist. I went in at 7 and didn't talk to a crisis counselor for an hour. By the time I did talk to someone I was freaking out cause I was basically alone in the waiting room and I was freezing cause they took my jacket and phone. They ended up keeping me overnight cause of a panic attack they caused. I had to sleep in a chair because they didn't have beds and couldn't find me a place to stay. I left at 12 the next day and never saw a doctor. The staff I did see were pretty nice."

"I had the pleasure of engaging with the amazing team of experts at McKay Dee Behavioral Health Institute over the least week. I was impressed with the self-evident grace and professionalism I witnessed across the board. I emphatically recommend the institution. As with any business, staff rotates and evolves over time. The power behind the McKay Dee Behavioral Health Institute lies directly at its intrinsically based foundational mission and values, as any effective positive force for growth must."

"A close family member went in during a mental health crisis. It took everything they had to go in and get help knowing it would cost them thousands to do so. Then they had to wait in a chair overnight and for over 12 hours with no sleep to see a so called psychiatrist Dr. Van Schalkwyk to only be spoken down to with his cocky attitude and questioned why they were even there? Never made eye contact and made them feel even worse. Gave them a script for vistaril that the ED doc could have wrote for them 12 hours earlier and offered no other help. This is the mental health help our desperate, depressed population is getting! It was awful, and a absolutely infuriating waste of time and money! And people wonder why there are so many suicides? I'm so incredibly sad and mad I encouraged my loved one to go."

"Worst experience of my life. Went in for help for severe anxiety and was stuck in a chair and told to wait until someone could help me. This was an emergency and I wasn’t given medication for FIVE hours. I should’ve spoken up but it was all I could to just try to breathe. When I spoke to the “crisis” worker he patronized me as I told him what happened. He and the staff members realized they messed up and no apologies were issued. I would’ve been better off on my own. If you are in a mental health emergency go elsewhere."