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<p><strong>ABOUT COLLEGE HOSPITAL CERRITOS</strong></p> <p>Located in a southeast suburb of Los Angeles County, College Hospital Cerritos provides <strong>mental and behavioral health services to youth, adults, and seniors</strong>. Along with offering acute inpatient care, including <a href="http://www.recovery.org/topics/dual-diagnosis-recovery/" target="_blank">dual diagnosis treatment</a> for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, <strong>the hospital specializes in partial hospitalization programs</strong> (PHP). Some services are available in Spanish and English. </p> <p>College Health Enterprises also operates a <a href="https://www.rehabs.com/listings/college-hospital-costa-mesa-416150447/" target="_blank">Costa Mesa Hospital</a>, which provides acute medical care along with medical detox and psychiatric services. The Cerritos facility is among the <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/CA16.pdf" target="_blank">22.2 percent of Californian facilities</a> to provide specialized programming for adolescents.</p> <p><strong>TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT</strong></p> <p>All College Hospital Cerritos services, according to the facility’s website, <strong>prioritize patient and family education</strong>. Inpatient treatment focuses on stabilization; senior services integrate medical and mental health treatment; and youth services address behavioral, psychiatric and substance use concerns.</p> <p>The College Health organization’s intensive day treatment is available at nine sites in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including the Cerritos location. Partial hospitalization programming <strong>addresses alcohol and drug addiction, depression, anxiety, psychosis, risk for harm, and vocational impairment</strong>. Following a full psychiatric evaluation, each client receives an individualized plan of treatment. </p> <p>Typically, treatment involves some combination of <strong>individual counseling sessions</strong>, group therapy, medication and case management, family involvement, and other forms of substance abuse treatment as appropriate. <strong>Medication management</strong> is also available to address mental health symptoms.</p> <p><strong>STAFF CREDENTIALS</strong></p> <p>College Hospital Cerritos interdisciplinary treatment teams are led by psychiatrists and include psychologists, registered nurses, master’s-level marriage and family therapists, activity therapists, and licensed clinical social workers. </p> <p><strong>ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES</strong></p> <p>According to the Cerritos facility’s website, the <strong>187-bed inpatient facility</strong> holds visiting hours evenings and Sunday afternoons. <strong>Transportation and hot meals are provided</strong> for PHP clients.</p> <p><strong>WHAT ALUMNI SAY</strong></p> <p>Feedback for College Hospital Cerritos from the two alumni polled by Rehabs.com to date offered contrasting perspectives. One rated their likelihood to recommend the facility to others five out of five stars, while the other reported feeling a lack of care. The reviewers rated the staff’s level of training and experience one and five stars. "Great facility. It is what you make of it," the satisfied alum wrote, while the other alum felt the facility's programming was disorganized and the staff was unsupportive.</p> <p>Elsewhere, alumni reviews were predominantly critical. On Google, 93 individuals rated the hospital on average two out of five stars.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></small> <strong>Receiving the most frequent complaints were accommodations</strong>, reported as uncomfortable and lacking in leisure or therapeutic activities. “The food and environment needs to be worked on,” alum I.F. wrote in a representative review. </p> <p>Reviews of staff were more mixed. Several otherwise negative comments nevertheless <strong>identified some staff members as especially caring or knowledgeable</strong>. Similarly, the hospital had an average rating of two out of five stars based on 79 Yelp reviews.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></small> Several cited, as one alum put it, “problems with staff ignoring me, talking down to me.” Positive reviews particularly for psychiatrists outnumbered negative ones about three-to-one. <strong>Inadequate activity also received criticism.</strong> The exceptional positive reviews echoed one Rehabs.com reviewer who noted that the program was “what you make of it.”</p> <p><strong>WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY</strong></p> <p>The sole loved one polled to date by Rehabs.com concurred with alumni reports of inadequate activity. They rated facility cleanliness four stars, though added: "According to my daughter they did not do too much." Loved ones on Google and Yelp also followed alumni trends regarding a poor therapeutic environment, mixed staff quality, and the potential to “receive the help needed” if clients made an effort, as one mother wrote on Google.</p> <p><strong>WHAT STAFF SAY</strong></p> <p>College Hospital Cerritos fared much more favorably in feedback from current and former employees, represented in an average rating of 3.8 out of five stars based on 25 Indeed reviews. Just under half <strong>cited good training at the facility as a strength</strong>, while complaints mostly addressed administrative issues rather than client care. Staffers shared positive attitudes toward helping clients.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></small></p> <p><strong>FINANCING</strong></p> <p>According to the facility’s website, College Hospital Cerritos accepts some insurance for services, including Medi-Cal for youth.</p> <p><small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS725US725&ei=niWhW6C0C5L4tAXQjqmABg&q=college+hospital+cerritos+reviews&oq=college+hospital+cerritos+reviews&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30.1370259.1371249..1371470...0.0..0.86.508.7......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.IrSvOWV9Mec#lrd=0x80dd2d5b05a0d6c1:0xc6d03543b3b43a38,1,,," target="_blank">GoogleReviews</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/college-hospital-cerritos-cerritos-2" target="_blank">https://www.yelp.com/biz/college-hospital-cerritos-cerritos-2</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.indeed.com/cmp/College-Hospital-Cerritos/reviews" target="_blank">https://www.indeed.com/cmp/College-Hospital-Cerritos/reviews</a></small></p>
— Rini Cobbey · 2018-09-26 06:50:47 PDT
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