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John Looney: Link between PV and Timberlawn

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iamartsy:
Well I just found an interesting link between Peninsula Village and Timberlawn:
http://psychiatry.mc.duke.edu/Faculty/JLooneyCV.html
Look at this doctor's trail of pain. Remember awhile back, I said there were distinct similarities, well the source might be here. I want others to weigh in on their thoughts. Both places have very sick methods of treating youth. Both places treat youth more like depression and other problems are crimes not illnesses. Both facilities utilize restraints and isolation quite heavily.

KaTee:
OMG! That is the guy alright. Evil bastard that he is. I swear this man is one of the most twisted people I have ever met. I wish I could get a pic of these two docs. I wonder how many people's trauma this one man is responsible for. I've got the creepy crawlies. UGH There has GOT to be a way to shut these evil buggers down!
Dr. Estabrook seemed really young when I met him and he smoked cigars, but I see he is still in practice in Texas.

Ursus:
Judging by that CV you provided a link for, Looney was heavily involved at Timberlawn for many years, in several different capacities.

His involvement with Peninsula Behavioral Health also spanned several job descriptions. There was a complicated facility merger which looks like it may have already been completed. And it looks like he is still consulting on an as-needed basis:


--- Quote ---SYSTEMS MEDICAL DIRECTOR, PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, Knoxville, Tennessee
This large non-profit health system contracted with Duke for Dr. Looney’s temporary administrative and clinical services for part of each week. The system is comprised of a 100 bed private psychiatric hospital, a large partial hospital system, two psychiatric units within general hospitals and four outpatient psychiatric clinics. It also includes a 100-bed residential treatment center for adolescents with severe difficulties. Geographically the system covers part of East Tennessee. It is the largest integrated behavioral health care system in Tennessee. Dr. Looney provided clinical consultation for adolescents admitted to the hospital and the residential treatment center, but he also has had administrative responsibility for all clinical programming and for activities of a medical staff of twenty psychiatrists. Peninsula Behavioral Health has been formed by a merger of four previously independent entities. It was Dr. Looney’s responsibility to integrate these different entities into one system. Dr. Looney served as the physician member of the Board of Peninsula Behavioral Health. This organizational program has been completed, and Dr. Looney now serves as a consultant as needed. The medical staff created an Award of Special Recognition* to honor Dr. Looney for building this system.

*Award of Special Recognition, Awarded by the medical staff of Peninsula Behavioral Health System, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 2001
--- End quote ---

I couldn't find him in Peninsula Hospital's directory; consultants are probably less than likely to be listed: http://www.peninsula-hospital.org/ph.cfm

Nevertheless, he still has attending privileges:

--- Quote ---CURRENT HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

. . . <snip snip>

Peninsula Hospital – Attending Privileges
Knoxville, Tennessee
1987 to present

. . . <snip snip>
--- End quote ---

Consultation work in Tennessee:

Governor and Two Commissioners of State of Tennessee and Director of Eastern Tennessee Human Services and Mental Health Centers for ten counties. Establishment of: 1)Chance Residential Center for Adolescent Girls, Cookeville, Tennessee, 2) Indian Mound Residential Farm for Adolescent Boys, Sparta, Tennessee, 3) Lakeside Vocational Training Center, Smithville, Tennessee; and Cumberland Mountain School (a therapeutic school for vocational education of handicapped persons), Crossville, Tennessee. 1987-present.

Peninsula Psychiatric Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee. Consultation regarding restructuring the adolescent residential program and consultation regarding difficult to manage cases, 1987-present.

Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee. This consultation extends services to public sector agencies in East Tennessee. 1993 - present.

Overlook Mental Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee. Consultation regarding redesign of Child and Adolescent Services in a ten county mental health center, 1995.

Covenant Health, Behavioral Health Committee of the Board of Directors. Covenant Health is the largest health care system in Tennessee east of Nashville. Covenant developed a very large behavioral health component. This committee is a newly established committee of the Board. Served as the physician member of the Committee. Served to facilitate merger of Fort Sanders Health System, Peninsula Mental Health System, Park West Hospital, Methodist Hospital and Overlook Mental Health System. The merged entities create the Covenant Peninsula Health System, 1997-2000.

dishdutyfugitive:
Dr. Looney ?

what kind of tunes are those?

iamartsy:
Unpleasant tunes if you were in either facility.  Ursus, it never ceases to amaze me, the amount of information can compile and assemble. I don't know what to make of Dr. John Guy Looney. Most of the docs at Timberlawn were smug and narcissistic. The nurses ran the wards, not the doctors. My doctor was Robert D. Bennett. He made it sound like he trained at Columbia University, but I see here that he did not. He even told my parents that. Like I said, smug, narcissistic, and egotistical. Here is the link to his CV: http://www.dgapractice.com/cvs/cvbennett.htm

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