Homewood Health Centre

urrently a patient, half way through my 9 week stay. It was a 3 month wait to get in, which is typical for my program, as of 2022. Patients here are promised a personalized “treatment team” complete with a “lead nurse”. However, these terms, taken from their official pre-admission booklet, exist in name only. There is no singular team assigned to individual patients. Instead there is a hodgepodge of well intentioned professionals who are unable to effectively collaborate and stay properly informed on the individual needs of patients - lots of moving parts, no cohesive whole. Still, I don’t doubt this is probably the best inpatient mental health facility in the country. If not for this program, I’m not sure where patients could turn as a last resort. Patients may benefit greatly from Homewood if they ALREADY have the skill and will to constantly advocate for themselves. Unfortunately, many patients are here DUE TO a lack of the necessary skill and will.

What a disaster. Do not come here. If you want to develop an addiction, come here. Such a horrible company and facility. It’s laughable.

The doctors pill push. Majority of nurses hide behind glass and lack empathy . No individual therapy or counseling .. this is not a treatment Center it’s a holding cell and a traumatizing experience for vulnerable people with mental health issues .. nurses afraid to speak up.. doctors misuse power.. patients left alone to figure things out and denied kindness and support .. pressured into being lab rats and re traumatized . Left worse than went In.

i was a patient at the Homewood for two months in trillium 2 i was being treated for severe depression which has affected me my whole life. i also suffer from PTSD and im bi polar. my nurses were very compassionate and professional at looking after me during my stay there. the quality of the meals was excellent and the food services staff were also amazing on a daily basis. my social worker and all the therapists really went out of their way to ensure i was well looked after.. my Psychiatrist Dr muir was very caring and explained her plan for me while staying in trillium . ive read a lot of other reviews about the homewood which were very negative these people were so angry they blamed their issues on the homewood and their staff. i guess they have that rite but what i experienced in two months was nothing short of excellent caring professional care. i would definetly recommend the Homewood for others who suffer from mental health or addiction issues. im so greatful .

i was a patient at Homewood health Centre on October 2020 where i was being treated for depression. Things seem to be going very well for me where the doctors and nurses were very involved in my health care. I was complimented by all the staff and patients for being such a loving caring individual who treated everyone with such care and respect. with about two weeks left in my treatment there i was called to a meeting by my psychiatrist. I was then told that apparently there was more than one patient who had complained to staff that i was a very scary intimidating guy who scared a lot of patients. I never as do much even raised my voice at anyone in the unit patients or staff. i might have been having a bad day and probally didnt look too happy but that happens . i feel i was discriminated against because i was a big guy and apparently people thought i was scary. i was told they wanted to move me into trillium 1 to finish my time which to me was punishment for no apparent reason.

The place is very unprofessional. I went in there because I didn’t research my options. Obviously I was in crisis. Homewood Rastafarian’s is very patronizing, have no skills addressing social issues, example: no knowledge of race or class issues. The place is so anachronistic in all their approaches. Homewood will take your money no problem. They are fantastic at charging for the no help.

The PTSD program is awful. Julie&Pam(the coordinator and Occupational Theaperist) retraumatize patients. They have favorites&ignore the others, are condescending. They also accuse patients of making up their trauma but never seek outside info to back these claims. You are never allowed to talk about your trauma. The process groups are a joke(also run by Pam) and if you speak out against how they are treating you they will use gaslighting to make it seems like you are the problem. The nurses though will have your back, listen and stand up for you. The nurses are amazing!

Homewood was a bad experience in my healing process. I felt traumatized at the centre. Staff seemed highly unprofessional at least 70 percent.

After leaving Homewood the Residence. I had weeks of no response when transferring to my therapists private practice. I have had them to continue to harass me about this problem to "resolve it" but they never answer my questions directly. Paul Obermeyer a higher up the Residence hung up on me when I was suicidal.

Extremely money oriented and staff shockingly unprofessional.

My experience was very stressful. The staff is very unprofessional and lacking real skills. Overall I regret deeply having gone there. Research the rehab before choosing one. I didn’t and that was a mistake.

In 2006 I was treated for an eating disorder. I suffered in silence for many years and then when my family found out it gave me even more power than I ever expected. At this point I was no longer afraid of my secret and did not care what anyone thought. After about 16 years my battle with anorexia and bulimia took a grave toll on my mental and physical health. With the encouragement of my family and my physician and believe me this was not easy but the finally convinced me to seek help. Homewood was recommended and my stay there was three and a half months. I missed my family like nothing else in this world. I watched my peers struggle as much as I did with this disease and thought no this is not me but it was. In that community I also watch others struggle with different addictions, how horrible. I decided to stay and complete my program and promised never to return. Trust me it was a struggle but I got the help I needed and am very thankful. Homewood was a life saver. 10 Thumbs up

Homewood save my life 5 stars for the heath care they took care of me. Any one that gave them a bad review where force to go there I place me there . If you go that this is no walk in the park you have to work at it.

Religious dogma. Christian based, period.

I was appalled by this place. This centre is about making money. People who work for this institution have no excuse unless they are not very smart. I am responsible for my lack of vision, I ended up at Homewood ctr. This place is dishonest to say the least. My humble opinion in all the remarked above.

Homewood health centre is a place that I could not recommend to anyone. If one has no other choice then Homewood is for sure better than nothing.

This institution is considered the best in Canada. Perhaps sometime in the past it was. I can not recommend this institution to anyone who needs consistency.

omg this place is a joke i give it a 1 rating staff and management don't know what there doing its profit basted the picture they show is residential is not what this place really is the picture they show is 50,000 a month and only accommodates 9 people.Every one else goes to the main building witch holds about 300 patents is a joke. beds are bad shared bathrooms food is bad staff is bad no support from staff if you question anything they come down on you for 350 a day really a rip off this a profit based hospital so you can imagine how they cut and the patents are the ones that suffer government should not support this place or insurance company's should look into this place for stealing there money its sad that there are no good places for mental illness in Ontario where the patents come first