Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital
1.3/5
1.3 /5
146 Verified Reviews
3955 156th Street Northeast, Marysville, WA 98271, US
(360) 651-6400
146 Verified Reviews
2.0/5
2.0 /5
Get an hr director that cares about what we say and follows upI feel my director has more to do with how the hospital runs than the ceo.

Barbara Jean makes techs find their own coverage if they need a break. She should be able to take the rounds. People are refused breaks she won’t cover them. Clemente is rude and should not be involved in programming or anything on the floor. he plays favorites and talks down to women. Please do something about Bethlehem Felix and Sarah taking excessively long breaks. Lunches shouldn’t be an hour every day. A lot of group leaders come do 10-15 min groups then leave. Too many of them just give more coloring sheets when that’s all they do

1.0/5
1.0 /5
- Better system of communicating patient individual needs and triggers in order to maintain higher levels of safety. Like putting interpreter or processing needs in the highlighted banner in HCS.- Educating case managers on finding culturally appropriate services as well as ensuring they are actually making appointments or providing patient requested informational resources.- Patients, especially on weekends, feel like a lack of access to therapists as well as patient advocate responses. Additionally, there are constant waves of patients reporting they feel over medicated, however, concerns go unaddressed.- Monitor when staff are overloaded or extremely short staffed and keep the census within a reasonable level to be addressed by present staff, instead of overloading burnout staff more. Such pattern of behaviors lead to higher levels of AMA requests and behavioral escalations.

1.0/5
1.0 /5
Facility need to be more orgsnized most of the time there is no paper towel or soap in one of these places (bathroom,breakroom) and that is NOT acceptable!Most of our time goes to for looking something that is easly could be solved with being organislzed ( looking for bendy pen, journals, phone numbers of providers)

2.0/5
2.0 /5
To stay on top of things.

1.0/5
1.0 /5
Add electric car charging capabilities for employees to use.Properly staff units.Fire staff that do not meet expectations after 30, 60, or 90 days. There is no point in keeping employees that do not do their jobs. It makes work more difficult for those of us who want to be here.

5.0/5
5.0 /5
Better onboarding and training experience for people going into psych and unit expectations based on level of acuity.There should be opportunities to debrief and learn from incidents/errors/ codes to better mitigate recurrence.

2.0/5
2.0 /5
Can everyone be responsible for their job and job description instead of everything falling on the nurse for example when a therapist doesn’t do their work in discharging a patient the blame goes to a nurse.Can there be a cut off time for admissions for example admissions that come after 6pm are not just it or admissions that come right after morning shift change while working towards discharging patients that have specific times that they need to get off the units.Can there be a limit to how many patients one can admit on their 12 hr shift the workload sometimes is heavy for example one nurse can admit 5 and discharge 6 which is a total of 11 and that seems to jeopardize quality of nursing that can be delivered.Most importantly could we have 3 nurses and 2 techs instead of the opposite because as nurses we work the techs jobs more than we do our own which leaves us no time to perform our duties well and in a timely manner.

5.0/5
5.0 /5
Needs better staffing. Needs higher pay. Pay is low compared to other facilities in area. With more pay can recruiter better staff and retain them.Need more staffing to maintain patient safety and improve patient outcomes. Keep census full because units are easier to run with more staffing. Big units require a certain number of staff to go off units. When low census staffing it’s very hard to do off unit activities and cafeteria.

2.0/5
2.0 /5
N/AIf I may complaint, there are several new MHT’s who take 20-30 minutes in their 15 min breaks. I would recommend to ask one regular worker (nurse/ MHT) from each Unit in private to give advice.