Pattikakes' A Place To Grow

After recently being a patient there, I firmly believe people confuse hospitals with hotels. The nursing staff on the 3rd floor have 1 of the most challenging jobs I've ever seen in my ENTIRE life. In fact, after witnessing how horribly the patients treat them, I have no idea how they work there. As for me, they took a broken, sick, and close to death person & miraculously put me back together again. The ENTITLEMENT these other people had completely baffled me. The nursing staff, NO MATTER how horrendously these unappreciative patients treated them, these ANGELS (😇) still treated them with DIGNITY & PROFESSIONALISM. Words alone can't do justice to how grateful I am to those nurses. 🌻🌻🌻🌻💛💛👑👑👑

My son spent a year and half there. The staff doctors and social workers all were very kind towards me and my son good communication. Listened to all my concerns. They really helped my son get to self awareness of his disorder and medication importance. He left was placed in respite and now is living on his own in a apartment. Has help with dmh services and couldn't be more proud of him. Thank You for giving me my son back. D5 unit staff doctors treated him with such respect and love.

Tewksbury hospital looks like a jail place, but idk if it’s because I’m black or not liked but the staff and nurses are very unprofessional sometimes I be asking myself am I the patient here or are they. The night nurses and morning nurses always have an attitude sometimes they even forget how to do their own job . I try to be nice but you gotta be very lucky to find the right nurse that’s the sweetest, nicest. But honestly all jokes aside if somone is on the edge of dying honestly they are going to die because they take up to 30-50 mins to arrive in your room after pressing the nurse bell . They sense to forget a lot I was siting on my iv line that went off 3hours ago but no one never came in or took me off of it after it was done . I had to curse 2 of nurses out not to long ago because I asked him for my melatonin and he comes back with a blood pressure cuff while I’m thinking he just wants to take my blood pressure so I let it be , 50 mins to an hour go by I ringed the nurse bell again he came in and I ask him where is the melatonin I asked you for and he said “ oh I thought you wanted your blood pressure taken 😂😂😂😂. Honestly it’s a place I’ll never come back to never in my life ever they are all rude and most of time have attitudes it’s not worth going to but suit yourself there and you’ll see what I’m talking about 😂😂💯

I just spoke to a wonderful woman named Meghan Murphy. I called on behalf of someone with mental health issues; she listened to me with a heartfelt concern and showed great care & understanding; she answered my questions and gave me insight on how to move forward with getting this person treatment. She is a Great representative for this hospital, and I hope they appreciate her as much as I do. Thank you so much Megan for your empathetic Attitude and understanding; I am grateful to you. GOD Bless You for all the Good you do for others 🙏🏼

I also reviewed the Public Health Museum, inside the hospital. Google the past of this place, please. It was once a 1,000 acre self-supporting city. Men, women and children lived here. It housed hospitals, asylums, orphanages, dorms, farms... everything! The tour and tour guides were very illuminating. The Public Health Museum was great!