West Valley Behavioral Health

"First they were supposed to send me to a State Hospital, then they decided to dump me at a Homeless Shelter. Also, at one point the doctor gave me opoids and didn't tell me they were opiates. They left shortly after."

"A close friend of ours had to check in the behavior unit. The staff was relatively good. However the social worker made a hard experience, miserable. It is people like him is a big reason why we a problem today. They are there to be advocates. My friend wants to make changes and was asking questions and self advocating. This social worker literally left him at the Village at Meridian. I understand working in the mental health world is hard and he has probably seen 1000’s people like my friend but this is beyond the pale of acceptable. If you cannot continue to advocate for those that need love and help to be put in the right situation you should not be there."

"Except for the religious remarks Dr Banta "at least i had thought" had a really respectable professional relationship. After the closing of his practice in payette "id h&w" i expressed to him my worries about no longer having him as a doctor there he mentioned and vouged for me too attend his caldwell office even tho at the time i was moving to mccall. 3 or more years had past seeing him at his caldwell office they told me he could no longer take me as a client because I had missed to many appointments i had missed an appointment, made it to the next one, and missed the following one... And i suppose adding those 2 plus the appointments i had missed in stretched past 9 years would constitute as to many. But i figured he would look past that part because it seemed like we were friends or at least he made it seem like he really cared. but in reality i guess they didn't because for a comparison when if i ever missed a mental health appointment in oregon i had my doctors calling me and showing up at my house to see if im ok.. they were genuinely concerned as for this doctor if you can make an appointment because your father died then you get kicked out. As for the staff i always felt as if i was some sort of problem child like everything i would ask for something simple would be completely out of there way and was a hard task for them."

"I really like Dr. Banta and I feel like he genuinely cares. I never feel rushed by him. I have had mixed experience with the receptionists."