Rady Children’s Hospital - Outpatient Psychiatry

"So besides being a San Diego County Affiliated unit for the whole county. Most kids will end up at this place if they self harm in any way, shape or form, even speaking the words, a child will end up here. The lack of communication with the parents is what gets to me. No responsibility or accountability for what happenes inside this unit because, you're not allowed in there but schedule window times to speak with your child, you know like jail. My daughter suffered a few incidents with the staff here and NO One, not one person let me know this happened. These people are not here to help you, they are there to tie Your hands, like I was told in anything that happens to your child here. And you will never know it happened until your child tells you what happened, and the Blame game starts, "I didn't know it happened" "I wasn't here when it happened" "it was a different shift nurse or doctor." The excuses I got were just horrible why this unit is the way it is. Let's forward to the meeting of releasing my daughter, a meeting in the CAPS unit, with a broken AC blasting the room, we had to have a meeting in there, great spot CAPS unit, and a scribbled paper from the Psychiatrist, you're going to tell me that the release of my child from A psychiatric clinic is based on a sheet of paper written by a psychiatrist, no signatures or anything, just a paper, and when I tried bringing up the doctor Lied, about a longer stay, people deviate the lie or clean their hands so that they don't get smeared with the blame. Employees know there is a huge problem with Rady's and the way things run at this place, I know this because I was told this by an employee, but they're either quiet for their Jobs or complacent in them earning a paycheck. But I know there is a lot wrong how things run in CAPS. I bet someone will end up just giving me the patient advocacy number, which is just an Oxymoron number. And I am tired of the apologies and sorrys, maybe for a change take responsibility or accountability and fix what's really broken at this place, employees Know exactly what's wrong with this place and know the people that should not work there, you're just as responsible for the people doing wrong to children. Remember you are not there to HELP the child, You are there for the job you interviewed and earning a paycheck, you want to help, tell the people that are doing families wrong, call them out and tell your damn supervisor or manager or someone who will fix the problem. Almost everyone I encountered has been a Fake Help, in disguises of a nurse, doctor or sitters."

"I loved it:D made 3 friends"

"Not patient in explaning things or really knowing how to treat the patients and let you wait for over an hour!"

"Radys is an inefficient conglomorate. Every time I deal with them is a painful experience. The waits are crazy and they couldn't care less. If they weren't the only real game in town for pediatrics I would run away screaming."