Iowa Department of Health and Human Services - Cherokee Mental Health Institute

Stacia Ledger 

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a year ago

Parents please don't send your kids here. I went when I was 15 in 2012 for 3 weeks, and for a 48 hour hold when I was 14. While I was there, my most vivid memory was that I threw a crayon(childish, I know) and before I could think, two staff members dragged me to a 'quiet room, a room with cement flooring and concrete walls, no windows. Both staff (thankfully women) stripped me of all my clothes except underwear, they did strip me of my bra as well. And put on me this velcroed quilt gown thing that I had to wear for the next... read more

Natasha Anne Gray 

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a year ago

This is the most pathetic childish place I have ever dealt with honestly, I don’t even know what this place is to be truthful but when somebody calls your phone from that number and tells you to hold on, doesn’t say anything else just says hold on and then put you on hold and then hang up on you then you call back and the same thing happens again then you call back and ask for a charge nurse and that charge nurse is so petty and immature wants to hang up on somebody trying to claim that he couldn’t hear me but my boys that a... read more

Anonymous 

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a year ago

This is the most pathetic childish place I have ever dealt with honestly, I don’t even know what this place is to be truthful but when somebody calls your phone from that number and tells you to hold on, doesn’t say anything else just says hold on and then put you on hold and then hang up on you then you call back and the same thing happens again then you call back and ask for a charge nurse and that charge nurse is so petty and immature wants to hang up on somebody trying to claim that he couldn’t hear me but my boys that a... read more