I came to here to get emergency care. I was in a very heightened state and admitted to wanting to harm myself. I saw a therapist who completely dismissed me and told me to "just get thru the hard times" and "I'm not worried about you because you have no plans to kill yourself". I didnt feel suicidal until meeting with this therapist. He belittled my experience and provided NO CARE. DO NOT COME HERE IF YOU ARE SEEKING HELP, they will make you feel worse and leave you with nothing. NEGATIVE ZERO STAR RATING. read more

If family members call in to harrass you they will take there word for it. There very intrusive, aggressive, if your not from Colorado expect abuses. They will yell at you, staff will feed you against your diet, they will yell if let them know, nurse will throw your food away, staff will yell at you if you speak to them when there talking about you to another patient. They will keep stuff or meds when you leave. They don't listen. They want your insurance money, then get off on be abusive and putting on street to sleep in freezing cold. I attempted suicide for first time cause of this place. CEO a millionaire... read more

This place provides really bad service and unacceptable treatment for its patients. Especially the counselors for the DBT program. I would suggest looking elsewhere for treatment or treatment plans. I will never return. read more

These clowns won't even answer the phone y when somebody answer they keep sending you to a robot the fuck is wrong y'all idiots get another career read more

I have had an amazing and healing experience at MHCD. As a result of losing people I loved and pandemic isolation, I experienced severe trauma and needed help. MHCD intervened with therapy and Esketamine treatments that have turned my life around. Almost everyone I encountered there was loving, caring, and professional in their work with me. The first therapist I was assigned to was not the best fit, but I was able to request a change to work with someone who is focused on my healing and giving a great deal of attention to supporting a new direction I've chosen for my life. The Esketamine treatments have been very powerful to help me discover and integrate parts of myself that I was ignoring and were necessary for me to find joy and fulfillment in my life. The staff at the Esketamine clinic also have been very caring and clearly love the work they are doing. They also were flexible in accommodating my specific needs. With regards to the other comments on MHCD, I would suggest that like any large medical clinic, you have ask for what you want and be open to what is offered to get the best results. It may take a bit of extra effort to get online counseling scheduled, they seem to have some difficulties with it. read more

I hate social media. Hate it. Yet, I am so incensed by MHCD, I not only posted a scathing review on Google, I am doing it on Yelp. I was a client at MHCD from 2000 on, and I dearly loved the nurturing environment they used to provide. Now, the individuals who still seem empathetic stand out due to their rarity. I left MHCD about two years ago, where I was a second floor patient. A sadistic Nurse Practitioner named Lauren Murphy refused me one of meds because she said I was using hard drugs (even after a LabCorp test confirmed only cold medicine and thc were present). I suffered without that med at least four months. Suffered. And the second floor manager, Lisa Beaton, also a fairly new hire, supported her decision. I found a new place for treatment and left. Another nasty hire of Lisa's, who's a med dispenser, Jose, yelled at me. He is still employed there, even tho numerous patients have been abused by his conduct. I went to the Patient Advocate, Vincent, for help, and he sure helped support the MHCD side but not mine. Not at all. The entire climate of MHCD has changed, at least on the second floor, although another consumer told me Lauren Murphy no longer works there, which is good news for clients at mhcd, bad news for her new clients. I used to love MHCD, love it, I believed they all had myself and other consumers in mind as the customers they served. When I left MHCD, besides my two case managers, I felt we were incidental and unimportant to the powers that be. I can advocate for myself, but what about my fellow neurodiverse patients who are too decompensated to speak up? They are the purpose of MHCD, we are, and they are being neglected or otherwise mistreated. Please, MHCD, take out the trash and support the employees who help! You apparently lost Lauren Murphy (yay!) but many other people remain who tarnish the help of the great employees! read more

Mental Health Center of Denver has some serious issues to address with their non-clinincal staff. Those staffers that work as building managers, work as payees in the Personal financial services department & those who run the housing program. These people are often poorly educated in general. It is quite clear that more specifically they are given little to no training on how to deal with mentally ill people. I have several griends in MHCD housing. I am appalled by how they have been treated. The staff of the housing program feels threatening they're housing residents with being thrown out on the street is the way to deal with someone who is trying to address their concerns. I have had more than 1 person tell me they have been verbally abused, even cussed at & called names. This is housing for the mentally ill problems will arise. MHCD makes little to no effort to protect housing clients from exposure to drugs, alcohol, physical violence, and even assault that is brought in by other housing clients. I know someone who was almost beaten to death in MHCD housing. The incident was never even really acknowledged. The abuse of clients in MHCD housing goes all the way to the head of that department. Ive had friends go into the office to try to resolve their concerns only to be berated, verbally attacked, called names & threatened with groundless eviction. This is a disgrace. MHCD should not be employing other MHCD clients working unsupervised as residential building managers. They need coping & sensitivity training. They're behavior only adds further stress & injury to already compromised people. As for personal financial services. There is absolutely 0( zero) transparency or accountability there. My payee dropped the ball many times. I was turned over to collection over & over because bills that were included in my written budget weren't paid. I became aware at 1 point that one of my bills had not been paid for 4 months. It was listed on my monthly budget. My payee's solution was to pay the arrearage all at once taking 1/2 of my income for an entire month- $400.00. I couldnt even feed myself that month. I also requested in writing an accounting of my expenses etc. so that I could determine where my $400.00 went if my bill wasnt getting paid. I never received it. To this day I have no idea where the $ went because P.F.S. refuses to give me an accounting. This is clients $ they should have immediate access to a full accounting when requested. Dont bother to call your payee. I have left over 100 messages over the years I've been with PFS and have only had return phone calls 7 times. MHCD needs to take a very hard look at how their " supportive" services are run & how theyre doing more harm than help in some cases. They need to stop hiring clients for positions with any type of authority over other clients. They need to train the non clinical stall on sensitivity, situation diffusion & just everyday respectful and normal conversation. They need to have classes on respect & compassion. Not just orientation. Ongoing education, inservices whatever the case may be. The consumer advocates need to be unbiased. Its been my experience a branch of MHCD & the consumer advocates have a habit of "teaming up" not to resolve issues in any reasonable manner but instead to brow beat clients into submission so they will stop complainingMHCD management and board of directors should be ashamed of the level of abuses the people they vow to help are suffering at the hands of their own employees! They need to be investigated. read more

I Stayed at a group home for a week was not treated with Dignity & respect The staff member with little education was rude saying Oh we don't do Glutten allergy here mad fun of my Diet even The jail knew I had Glutten Allergy Had an other patients call me rude nasty names was verbally abused at Park Place while staff are Drinking energy drinks which probably had meth in it Park Place was a dump I went to Topeka Kanas Crisis shelter to get away the place would take you out on pass let you have your belts your shoes strings did not judge at all, took allergy to foods seriously, as long as you cleaned helped out. & did choirs its Called http://www.valeotopeka.org/services_hotline.cfm go there for help clean nice nothing Like MHCD, http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020130607A90/HOUSTON%20v.%20HICKENLOOPER read more

I just want it on record that I tried very hard, and made every attemp to properly wean off my meds. I called multiple times about chest pain, ran every test possible. It's the meds causing chest pain. Not 1 person at mhcd gave a fuck including Dr. Erin Stauter, whom I called & left mutipIe messages for. started calling Friday and ultimately had to go in Tuesday afternoon. WITH ACTIVE CHEST PAIN Only to be turned away & told to schedule an appointment. For the chest pain I have now... Schedule an appointment. Thank God up above for Kaiser. read more

Watch out how they bill you. Don't let them tell you that there is a co-pay behind. Without any documentation. And when you pay all the co-pays, you should be entitled to a credit. Not with this company. Don't talk to the manager. Will accuse you of not being nice to his employes. When you confront him and he raises his voice, which you do the same, he will hang up on you. Will recommend this company to no one!! read more

Watch out for this comment because it won't last long here. There are people that don't care about freedom of speech and I think google is one of them. There three major problems at this clinic that I think need to be addressed. I spoke to the manager with my first complaint but the second time around they would not let me speak with management. Firstly, Dr Marshal made very rude and racist comments to me. I complained about him to management and the situation improved. Among other things he called me a servant which I think was inappropriate and unprofessional he was saying this indirectly and I think this has to change. Its not fair to talk to clients this way. Secondly there is a problem with some of the staff that help with social security applications. Kelsey Shanholts helped me with my application and she didn't even know that applicants are required to have a certain amount of points to apply, she was very enthusiastic and polite which I think is good but she worked on my case for six months and then told me that I did not have enough work credits. I don't think this is efficient use of labor. They should have some sort of training for new staff I think this will be cheaper in the long run. Some of the staff here don't even know the difference between SSI and SSDI I think this should change. Thirdly, there is a problem with their temporary homeless housing program. There is favoritism and preferential treatment when they choose people for these beds. Addisu Haile made an application for me about a year ago and a year later Christina Allard told me that for some reason I had been sidelined because there is a housing crisis in Denver. I then wrote a complaint on google maps and somebody hacked into my account and removed the comment blocking me from the Gmail account where I keep important documentation I am still locked out of one of the accounts and I can't even access the account using googles recovery system. Christina Allard refused to give me assistance finding housing saying that she was not my case manager but when I asked Dr Cummings I was told that Christina was my case manager. I have been referred back and forth between "coalitions for the homeless" who are now helping me find housing, I have been homeless for close to two years. I don't think it's fair to provide services for mentally ill people without case management this is another thing that should change at MHCD. I've been hearing voices in my head since 2006. These voices threaten to harm me and put me in prison for my beliefs threatening that they will frame me for crimes I have not committed. Sometimes these voices are scary. I have been taking medication for over three years and not one day have these voices stopped. Now I'm dealing with side effects of the medications because they are very strong. Treatment for schizophrenia costs a lot of money and everybody pays for it directly or indirectly through insurance premiums and Medicare taxes. I think it's a matter of public interest what happens at this clinic. There are too many people sitting around doing nothing whilst mentally ill patients sit outside homeless facing violence from people that don't understand them. I don't think this is fair and I think it's a pity that nobody cares. Like Obama said "We are the change we seek" I feel people need to know what's going on here. Ive been considering taking legal action against this facility for discrimination, I was seeking a pro bono lawyer and anybody who has had similar experiences please email me here elimkb768@gmail.com, there's a very small chance that we will get a lawyer or even justice but people have to know what is happening here. read more

I was a client with MHCD for two years. I needed help; I was dealing with many issues beyond my control. The case managers assigned to me were indifferent and not much help. They weren't very knowledgeable about available resources or how health and human services work. Unless you are court ordered I suggest looking into other options. read more