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Peachford
Deborah:
What's the connection between Peachford Behavioral Health and HLA?
http://alcoholism.about.com/gi/dynamic/ ... ordbhs.com
I understand they are owned by Universal Health, the same outfit that owns Ascent, Boulder Creek Academy, Provo Canyon, King George, Northwest Academy, and others.
http://www.uhsinc.com/hospitals.php?type=behavioral
Bought up all the CEDU programs when Brown Schools went bankrupt.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 407&EDATE=
Guest 2:
From what I've heard, Peachford is the psychiatric facility HLA sends kids to when an "intervention" doesn't do the trick or the kid is new and needs to have their medicine adjusted.
I'd be curious to know if anyone has a child who was sent there and whether or not you received a receipt or a statement from the visit.
Is Buccellato on the Board of Directors at Peachford?
Guest 2:
Also - Do parents have to give their consent for their child to be sent to Peachford?
Anonymous:
Peachford existed back when I was in high school so I doubt it has any business ownership affiliation with HLA. I remember some classmates going there. This would have been 1980-1983 era. Im not sure when it actually opened though.
Lacey:
--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---What's the connection between Peachford Behavioral Health and HLA?
http://alcoholism.about.com/gi/dynamic/ ... ordbhs.com
I understand they are owned by Universal Health, the same outfit that owns Ascent, Boulder Creek Academy, Provo Canyon, King George, Northwest Academy, and others.
http://www.uhsinc.com/hospitals.php?type=behavioral
Bought up all the CEDU programs when Brown Schools went bankrupt.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori ... 407&EDATE=
--- End quote ---
Peachford is an outside short term psychiatric ward, not directly linked to HLA. No, it didnt have anything to do with the interventions. They are two different kinds of punishment.
Interventions were used for punishments to behaviors not having to do with harming oneself (violence, drug use, extreme refusals, etc). Basically they were used to break someone down so that they knew exactly what was in store for them if they repeated this behavior.
Peachford was used much less frequently. I only knew 2 or 3 people who went there in my entire 2 yr stay. People went to Peachford when HLA was not sure if they could keep them safe at HLA. Like people who were extremely suicidal or wouldnt stop cutting (why these people were admitted in the first place always blew my mind.) Like for example:
A room mate that I had toward the end of my stay had found her mom hanging in the moms closet by a belt like 2 years ago or something. The girl was totally nuts (cutting, would choke herself with a belt to "feel closer to her mom", and all this other stuff). I got totally freaked and told my counselor, and they put her on Restrictions and on Clean Air (sleeping in the hallway in a sleeping bag so night staff can watch you.) Finally staff walked in on her trying to hang herself and she was sent to Peachford. Then she did something else crazy there, and I think was eventually sent to a longer term psych ward.
So it was people like that who went to Peachford (also extreme anorexia or bulimia I'm pretty sure). Its like a short term crisis center.
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