Western Pacific Med Corporation

"It’s a place where those can get help. If you really want it. The staff is very professional. When dealing with matters of addiction. The first step is getting help and recognizing your disease. Western Pacific Ventura offers counseling, as well as many different services offered."

"RUBEN ORTIZ/DIRECTOR is an extremely unprofessional administrator. The company is corrupt in it’s fraudulent billing of medical. I worked for the company and quit do the numerous ethical violations, promoted by the Director and the company in its entirety. Administrators would come in when counselors that were so severely overloaded (60 patients per case load is a mandatory minimum) could not meet the insurance requirements for time counseled of the patient and write fraudulent counseling sessions so MEDICAL pays them their money. The WESTERN PACIFIC Company cut corners and almost everything. The Director Ruben Ortiz is a bully and verbally Condon sending to everybody. He speaks with. He is one of those types of people that feels he knows everything there is to know about treatment. The sad thing is he doesn’t know how to treat people and substance use disorder treatment is a people business. The counseling here is a joke. The requirements for medical is TWO- 1 hour seasons per month. The patients their, on average are seen probably for two- 20 minute sessions per month. And as I said “AVERAGE.” The dispenser Armando is a great assets to their company. The other dispenser is highly ethical. Ruben Ortiz talked bad about me because I quit before he even got the director job to patients and other counselors. As soon as he took over all but one counselor left the company. He is tyrannical and lazy in his view case management responsibilities.The company does ASAM assessments but doesn’t do anything to help the clients in a holistic treatment model. They will not make phone calls to help the patient acquire the basic needs so the patients can actually focus on recovery. This is an example of how the Director Ruben Ortiz thinks he knows it all yet he is totally ignoring “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” which is the basic approach to substance use disorder treatment. And the most horrendous part of it all is he doesn’t even care. Ruben Ortiz actually thinks what he’s doing is the right way to do it. Western Pacific would be better finding a new Director and cleaning up their unethical practices. Their way of treatment is indirectly, killing people. If I could give no stars, I would."

"I was a patient here. For the most part I was admitted within a month time a patient for a year and still have support from multiple counslers. if you work your program right there is chance you can get clean. I highly recommend."

"Western Pacific is a great place with a wonderful staff but the one downfall is the dosing nurse is the slowest moving person I've ever met in my life so expect to wait if she's doing doses that day!!! LOL"

"I'm probably the first or second person in history to be rolled up and sent from Glendale to Ventura, it could have been almost anywhere away from L.A. but Dr. Mark remembered me mentioned Ventura a long time ago as a place I would consider transferring to. I just needed a bit of extra encouragement because I would procrastinate my life away saying not today, perhaps manana! I used to drive out to the fairgrounds almost weekly when I first started driving in 1975, or ride with my surfer buddies from No. Hollywood to "C" Street off the 101. So I know the place however, its been a few years. The same dosing person, Wilfredo gave me my first dose ever at Panorama City in 1992! He gives me my dose at Glendale today! Talk about stress, just parking in that lot in one piece! I'm the first client ever to walk thru the door of No. Hollywood Camarillo at Tujunga, but couldn't stay had no funds. I'm down to 20 but going to be stuck there for quite awhile cuz I had to kick 75 MG's at LA CJ with only Clonodine, didn't sleep 20 days, almost killed me. I and a friend are thinking of filing yet another class action against LA Co. Sheriff's Dept. Because ACLU can't seem to find the time. I'm sure that if and when it's officially announced many of you will want to hop aboard! Till then, it's only a rumor!!! BTW can't blame anyone for wanting to stock up, even though you can be charged with illegal possession of a controlled substance even if you only kept your own methadone too far past the date on the bottle! If Armageddon or the "Big One" , 8+ on the Richter scale you're gonna wish to God you had some saved up, your supply may be cut off for weeks! You will be one very unhappy camper if you have to kick cold turkey, and one or the events if not both is ,not if, but when? It's only aatter of time, so when you put enough food and water and flashlight and radio to last two weeks, you better hope you saved up enough methadone to last that long. So we are in a real dilemma here the clinics are not allowed to give out more than enough to last till your next pickup day, and it's illegal possession to save up that much, so what to do!? Even I have not figured out that one, except ask your friend the cook how to convert codiene back into morphine after a full extraction and turning it into free base form and back into Morphine Sulfate clue, you need some sulphuric acid, or hydrochloric acid to turn it into injectable form or hydrochloride! You can probably get away with keeping an old bottle of #3 codiene pills past expiration date, just be a good cook or chemist not too dope sick to go through all the steps. The only way outta this legal tight spot I can think of. No I'm not spun, just my first night back after the ordeal I described earlier. I'm now ending this so I'm still allowed into the Ventura Clinic!"