Amazing experience, my traditional counselors, never came close to asking the questions Dr. Hayes…read morehad me consider. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.!

Dr Houston and Kera Tooley, NP r both great practitioners. They r experienced and knowledgeable…read more They r kind and caring. They worked with my 88 year old mother, getting her C-Pap settings and her oxygen settings to a level that was comfortable and beneficial for her. They have provided care for my illness as well. I would recommend them for anyone needing a pulmonologist.

I've never actually met this guy but my interactions have been interesting. I was referred to him…read moreby my neurologist after doing a cognitive study with a neoro pyschiatrist, that he referred. The shrink doctor deemed that I was in good shape but I had disclosed that I typically only sleep about four hours every night which apparently raised a red flag, or two, which resulted in the roundabout referral. One more note before moving on to the sleep disorder doc, staying up late and getting up early started when I was very young because my Dad worked the 2nd shift and my Mom worked the 3rd shift. I would see my Mom off to work & wait up for my Dad. We'd hang for a bit, sometimes eat a bowl of cornflakes on the porch then it would be midnight or later before hitting the sack then of course up early for school. Then there's waking up at 2:30AM to do morning radio for years, my love if sunrises, etc. well the point is my sleep habits are as old as I am and just didn't seem to be an issue. But there we were, on the way to a sleep doctor. My first consult was simply Dr. Houston calling to do a brief screen and scheduling me for a sleep study at the Sleep Center of the Gulf Coast in Foley, AL. (review forthcoming) where I had a very pleasant experience. Soon afterwards I received a call from Dr. Houston who informed me that I had horrible sleep apnea. Okay I am very familiar with sleep apnea from my years in the medical field AND the years I've spent managing #1 son's really awful sleep apnea. However I don't snore, I don't dream, I don't wake up tired or with palpations and I'm a heavy REM sleeper but I just seem to always wake up before sunrise, it's just not a symptomatically obvious case to me. I got a CPAP machine in the mail, did a telehealth orientation for the unit (thanks to Covid) and I haven't heard back from the sleep doctor to date. I am scheduled for a follow up with him in the future but that's the extent of my interactions. Bottom line: I'm not ready to voice any suppositions at this point but CPAP is a great technology for those who need them and quite frankly nearly every breathing human being could benefit from using one every night. However I am skeptical about my need for this machine and have a little bit of skecptism the process that I experienced to get here.

First time here to see Dr.Lipscomb for our yearly cpap visits..we changed drs due to the complete…read moreincompetence and rudeness of our last drs office staff and months spent trying to straighten that out..we don't need the aggravation anymore..so this dr was recommended as someone trained in this..Margaret his nurse is wonderful,, helpful and friendly goes that extra step..the dr is wonderful,patient addresses all your concerns ..he is in his own practice not with a group and it shows by the time he takes with you , not rushing you out cause of some insurance quota they have to meet..He is a primary care physician first but trained in cpaps and pulmonary care.. we were very happy with him..so if u need cpap help he is the one to go to as well as primary dr..

Dr Kenzie Hendricks was my doctor until she showed her real colors. Foe 2 years she was bubbly ,…read morehigh energy and friendly. she got me on a PAP program for oxempic. I was thank and treated her well. this year my application got so screwed up that I still haven't got my meds. I had to conta her several times to correct it. she made so many mistakes like missing dosage, no medicine chosen and failing to fax my application. She got to the point she was blaming me for her mistakes. she has become unethical and not trustworthy. I'll be leaving south Baldwin because my complaints fell on deaf ears. senior doctors failed to do anything. As far as I see it they also are unet. patient cat should be 1 st. not so at this clinic. Nor with Dr Hendricks.

Dr Benson is an excellent psychiatrist that diagnosed our daughter correctly and basically saved…read moreher life..He's very articulate and takes the time to explain mental complexities that so many do not understand. I highly recommend him.

I'd like to express concern with this place. Although I thought everyone was nice, there are…read morehygiene issues here. One, the rooms could use more frequent cleaning. Next, and the most concerning, the doctor was not wearing gloves and stuck their finger in my child's mouth to check her latch. I wish I asked her to wear gloves if she was going to do that, but it was too late. I never knew doctors not to wear gloves when examining. While with us, she touched the door knob, which is a (potentially) highly contaminated area. The room we were in did not have a sink so how am I to know she even washed her hands at all before this? I debated reviewing this place, but I decided to, in hopes that it will prepare future parents and caregivers to make sure their doctors wear gloves, especially if they're putting a finger in a newborn baby's mouth.

I'm still shocked at the lack of empathy this place has. I ran late to an appointment for my two…read morelittle ones and the doctor refused to see me. I was told they only give you 15 minutes before they move on and will no longer see the patient. I was 16 minutes late. I know that I was 16 minutes late because I called them from the parking lot to make sure it was okay to come into the waiting area, I wasn't sure of Covid restrictions. I tried to explain to them that I had to drive an hour and a half to get there, leave work early (hard to take off with manpower shortages due to covid), and pick kids up from different schools. I was apologetic but hoped they would have a little bit of understanding for a working mom just trying to make it. They did not.

Probably one of the most confusing weeks of mine and my family's life. Had we not used this…read morefacility a few years ago and felt confident with their level of care we would have never even dreamed of the trewtment and/or lack of treatment she receive. The level of care has definitely deteriorated and the pain she edured while not being properly taken care of caused mental and physical scars. Some meals were withheld...Some raw shrimp etc etc. When brought to attention they made the patient the pawn. And now that they accept Tri-care they've taken the liberty to treat the vets as bad as the VA can and does. They are very short staffed and need a health inspection ASAP. From a Stud to a Dud!!! its no wonder so many good therapist don't work there anymore.

I needed to change my behavior, that much was clear. Equally obvious was that the thing I was…read morestruggling so hard to make work (the 12-step modality) was just not a good fit with my personal belief system, which made it exceeding difficult to stick to. I did not believe I was "powerless" (though I admittedly needed some help), and I instinctively knew that starting every sentence with "My name is Melyanna and I'm an alcoholic" was not healthy for one's self image, let alone one's sobriety. The search began for something that would work for me; soon my spouse told me about GBR (I was too involved in my isolation and substance abuse to do any research myself). She had combed the site, made a call to GBR, and after after speaking to Kat, told me she knew in her gut this was the place where I would find the healing I had needed for so long. So I summoned up the courage, called and spoke to Kat myself, and shortly came to roughly the same conclusion. I got on a plane and committed myself and the next 2 months of my life (as well as a bunch of my parents' money) wholeheartedly to whatever it was they were cooking up down there. This turned out to be the best and most significant decision I have made in my adult life. I was desperate for real change, and had high hopes going in. GBR exceeded all of my expectations. It is not an exaggeration to say my experience was transformative, and by the time I said goodbye, 8 weeks after walking through those doors, I was simply not the same person I was when I arrived- which was a great relief because that person did not and could not love himself and behaved in a manner consistent with that belief. It is difficult to nutshell the experience in a review-friendly sound-byte, and of course everyone who comes here is on his or her own path, but my personal experience at GBR was this: I was treated with compassion and understanding. Over the course of my stay, with a bit of encouragement, I learned to treat myself the same way. This long-overdue change in self-perception enabled me to organically arrive at an understanding of my relationship with my drug of choice (ethyl alcohol in my case) which made ceasing my previous behavior an intuitive choice. It was a deep understanding that I could not un-feel once I felt it. Early in my stay at GBR, one of the counselors said something which turned out to be prophetic, and at the time sounded simultaneously counter-intuitive, hopeful and refreshing. And she said it with a level of conviction that really got my attention and made it stick in my awareness: "Stopping Doing Something isn't what we do here". The focus was never on fixing something that a 12-step program would say is fundamentally broken about me. I was never told I have a disease, never led to believe the behavior that brought me there was something I would have to struggle and fight against for the remainder of my life. I was allowed to heal at deeper, more fundamental level, and my compulsion to abuse alcohol simply fell away with several other behaviors that were neither nurturing or nourishing. And that's the gift that GBR gives, if you do your part. You hear it in phrases like "getting out of your own way" and "connecting with the innate heath that is your birthright", etc. but whatever you call it- it worked for me. And I witnessed it working for others during my stay. As it turns out, 8 weeks (which admittedly scared me a bit at first) was just about the sweet spot for me. Rome wasn't built in a day, so they say, and I certainly did not become the mess I was before I reached out to them overnight. The counselor I matched with was perfect for me; our sessions throughout my stay were comfortable, edifying, and empowering. They have several counselors on staff, and they are all awesome, committed professionals who have their individual approaches and strengths, as I learned in group sessions with them. Mine, however, was the the awesomest. (Many of my fellow guests said the same thing about their counselors, but I knew the truth). Others have extolled the virtues of the location/environment/activities (all very conducive to healing), the food (I tried to take one of the chefs home with me but alas she was already in a relationship), the staff (all were phenomenally caring and compassionate), so I don't need to reemphasize any of that. GBR is in truth what others have described in that regard- a safe, loving place where you can heal from the inside-out. I went down there with a lot more baggage than I came home with, and for that I am eternally grateful for everyone whom I worked with during my stay. If you've made it this far, I sincerely hope you reach out to them. You are worthy. If you are a family member of someone in need, please do the same.