Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center - Dothan, Alabama

Kayla

Be honest that place has helped me a lot like it was probably the best place that I went to residential wise and I’ve been to about six residential and laurel oaks one helped me the most. The food was good like the service was good. My therapist was amazing shout out to Miss La Rhonda. The bedrooms were all right, and the staff really helped me so yeah, like I don’t understand all these other bad reviews like this was a really good place in my opinion.

Holly B.

This review is to warn parents! My daughter has severe mental health issues. Because of that she has been in and out of facilities since she was 12. I've never experienced a more horrible place! My daughter was attacked just a few minutes after 3pm. The girl that attacked my daughter had already attacked eight, yes EIGHT other patients, yet they still allowed this girl to be around other patients. They put my daughter in isolation for her safety, while still allowing the other girl to wonder around. I was contacted at 7:32pm and told she was attacked. They told me her head bounced off the concrete floor and he was being monitored every 15 minutes for a concussion. I literally had to threaten with law enforcement to get them to take my daughter to the ER. Well my daughter also had a broke nose. My daughter told me they only checked on her one time! Not every 15 minutes like they said. They didn't give her motrin until sometime after 8pm. And to top it off my daughter didn't receive dinner. I've never seen my daughter this broken! When my daughter was done at the ER, I demanded her release. While I waited for her to be released to me, the admin wouldnt come to the lobby and speak to me about this situation! Please, if you don't want your children to come home worse and hurt, don't send them or allow them to go here!

heather P.

I have had a few youths complete this program with remarkable results. Staff has always been polite, respectful and care a great deal about the kids. At first my youths complained how awful the place was, but after realizing they needed to be there, they did a complete turnaround and are doing wonderful back at home with their families. They later admitted that the place wasn’t that bad, they just did not want to be there and were trying anything they could to be removed. They both have expressed how grateful they are to have been there and learned a lot. They loved their therapists too!

Chris B.

These people are letting kids fight. My daughter got jumped by 2 girls. These same girls were fighting every day and instead of doing something about it they are letting it happen. Yesterday my daughter was the second person they attacked. They waited over 4hrs to call me then denied my daughter medical treatment. I had to threaten to call call the law before they finally took her to the emergency room 8hr after the fact. She suffered a broken nose.

Barbara P.

My granddaughter was at laurel oaks for 5 days and on her 4th day she got laughed at while having a panic attack by the staff. Miss Tina and Tonya also said "I get to go HOME and look in the mirror and see how pretty I AM" as she was having a panic attack about going home. According to my granddaughter she would not recommend laurel oaks to anyone.

katedra C.

the place was good itself i was in unit A and shout outs to sarriah Ceasar i just left laurel oaks in 8/12/24 it was good i just want to say thank you for supporting me thank you Nurse Maliah thank you keshuna calloway and sarriah ceasar they helped me a lot thanks to unit A

John H.

I was in this place from 9/1987 til the end of 1988. This place was located next to Boardwalk and Baseball in orlando not far from SeaWorld. They kept me in a padded room in a paper gown most of the time I was there and they kept giving me shots in the butt that would knock me out. When I was awake they kept me all drugged up on a bunch of drugs. I couldn't concentrate or be myself. The male staff was very abusive not to just me but others. I seen a kid get body slammed in the group room. This place isn't for children If you really love them and want them to change. Do some research and find a better place for them. A place that actually cares for the kids. I pray this place actually gets shut down and losses their licenses cause it's no way to run a business and you don't treat children the way these people do at this place. If this place isn't in florida anymore Thank God. But don't put your children in any behavior program with the Laurel oaks name. I pray someone sues this place for miss treating their children and shuts it down for good taking the license for indefinitely.

Error 3.

Me and my fiance took our son here. They didn't change his meds or dosages. The entire time he was there he fought other children and was sent home for good behavior after two weeks. If anything our child acts worse then he did before. This is the worst place I have ever had the displeasure of seeing. The staff are a joke cursing in front of the children. And the doctors are quacks. If you actually need help for your kids this is not the place. And people that don't want their kids seem to dump them here like it's a day care so children that actually need help don't get the help they deserve. Avoid laurel oaks at all cost.

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