| Country | United States |
| State | Bangladesh |
| City | West Palm Beach |
| Address | 2200 N Florida Mango Rd #201 |
| Phone | 877-935-5873 |
| Website | wellingtonretreat.com/ |
SO GLAD THIS MAN IS GETTING HIS KARMA. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET YOU OLD GOAT.
This place was the absolute worst place to go to. I finally made it out after feeling trapped for over 10 days off pure hell. Dr. Moran is a truly arrogant man with no class. He lives in a million dollar home and feeds the clients pigs slop. Not to mention old hotel they make you live at smells of mold. They wash your clothes once per week and you can just about forget making a phone call. I wish every client that comes out of there would write a report on how horrific and sick this Dr. Moran's way of medically getting people sick. It's mind control and like one man put it at a meeting a Dr. Moran Cult. This is a fly by night rehab with the worst track record in South Florida. This man is a true fraud and the staff are his weak puppets. Save yourself time and money don't go to wellington retreat.
If I wasn't still so afraid I would put my name to this. But I can't. You caused me more damage than I was when I came in. I trusted you. That was a HUGE thing for me to do. You're good at the front door marketing. But then you took advantage. You know it. I know it. I needed therapy - one on one. All you saw was dollar signs and a person who really wanted to get well. A person that absolutely has some mental problems. I do. And that's ok. Apparently not as socially acceptable as drug addiction though.
You didn't help me. You made it worse. And cruelty from other people is part of my struggle. I took a leap of faith and trusted. And you played with mym head. You tried to break me down. To fit the only mold you know. It's a shame really. That you keep getting away with it. I thought about suinhg you, for medical malpractice. But apparently mental abuse doesn't count. I could I guess, on my own. I can speak and write as well as you - use big terms to further my business.
But frankly Im exhausted. Survival is hard when youre all alone. Being abused and frightened and discounted as a person who doesn't know themself only works with someone who is truly out of touch with their disorder. You promised to taylor my treatment to my needs. Then you realized that you couldn't. So you made me believe I am something I'm not, then scared me into staying. The purse was open and you just grabbed it.
I am trying every second of every day to overcome not only my despair that brought me to your so called retreat, but to overcome the damage you did to me while I was there. Damage that no one understands. Because I'm not just numbers 1 5 and 10 in your outdated DSM or whatever it is. I am me and I trusted enough to seek help and you almost destroyed that. Almost.
DO NOT SIGN OVER POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR YOUR MINOR CHILD!!!! My son was severely overmedicated upon his arrival at Wellington Retreat. As the parent of a minor, I was not allowed to question any of the medical treatment given to my child including multiple medications that my son had never been on before- anti-psychotics, anti-seizure, antidepressant,anti anxiety. I called many many times for updates on my child and my voicemail messages went unanswered for days on end, not knowing if my child was alive or dead.. The staff turnover was unbeliveable. The treatment approach for my child was to medicate him so heavily that he could not refuse meds or even advocate for himself. Family calls were supervised by staff with family and patient on speaker and staff would TERMINATE the call if my child or I expressed any concerns about the treatment. Office staff are lax on precertifying treament, assuming that the parents will be billed if insurance denies treament due to lack of pre certification. As a parent of an addicted child, I would NOT recommend sending your child to Wellington Retreat. I know that as parents, we become desperate to save our child from the perils of addiction, but from my childs experience, I would never allow anyone I know to be admitted to Wellington Retreat. As far as transitional housing, young patients are housed in apartments that are not fully supervised. My child stated that most of the yong people in transitional housing would actually sneak out the back windows at night and no one ever knew. ***** Staff threatened on multiple occaisions, to "Baker Act" my child if he did not comply with every treatment and rule imposed. If you send a loved one to treatment, communicate by email with Doctors, counselors, clerical/billing staff and keep copies of all correspondence from day one. You will need a paper trail of all communication. There are many,many treatment facilities for yong people sufferring from addiciton.Do your research before you send them to Wellington Retreat.
I was a patient at wellington.dr.moran was very condescending and arrogant and was not comfortable to be around.the staff laughed at his jokes all the time when they wernt that funny. They threaten people with marchmen acts and baker acts all the time.I'm glad to be out of there
I think he has his ways but truth be told people in there had some serious drug issues and mental health disorders.there's people that leave after a month and people who were there over a year .drug addicts on hard drugs need help.I'm sober nowadays.it straightened me up in a lot of ways.
I am so glad that there is finally light being shed on this horrible place. I originally went to wellington because it was the only place in Florida that would accept my health insurance. I had a bad feeling about it but I decided to admit myself because I needed help with my addiction to opiates. Upon arrival I encountered very, very unprofessional staff and the Tech "warning" me about how the place was run. He was using his words very carefully almost as if he feared for his life if he said the wrong things to me. Sadly, I figured out not too long after why he was acting this way. This place is run by Dr. Moran and his "minions" who eat, drink, and breathe his horrible fear mongering tactics. Dr. Moran is a pompous, pretentious, sly character. He has no empathy for the drug addict, only for the mentally ill. Although there is no separation in treatment for the two. I myself, am an opiate addict with no history of mental health issues. I was housed with very, very unstable schizophrenic, manic, paranoid and delusional patients. There were a few times where I feared to go to sleep at night since we had to leave our rooms unlocked at night. I was afraid an unstable patient would attack me because I saw it happen multiple times to other patients. Every morning we were to sit through a "community meeting". It would best be described as a battle dome or a dog fight due to the atmosphere of the room per Dr Moran and his cohorts. They poke and pry information out of patients and punish everyone if the person doesn't fess up to a wrong doing or tattle tail on someone for doing something wrong. One meeting went on for 6 hours with no bathroom or water/food breaks. Dr. Moran is very, very, very medication happy. He over medicates, under medicates, and will not listen to patients concerns with their medications. The Tech staff are horrible because they are so scared to do anything wrong or be nice to patients because of being reprimanded by Dr. Moran. The financial controller is a piece of work. She gets off on the power that she has over patients money. The lead tech is an arrogant piece of work "who owns his own business" and doesn't need to be there as he says. The so called therapists are horrible except for one or two of them. I was thrown out on the street because of my insurance cutting out. I was told Literally HOURS before i had to leave. luckily I live in Florida and i had somewhere to go but other patients from out of state had the same done to them. I was homeless for about 2 weeks until i finally got on my feet again. I was kicked out with no medication after being on suboxone for 6 months. I had no choice but to go to a methadone clinic and now I am worse off then I was when I admitted myself there. DO NOT send yourself or a loved one there. DO NOT, DO NOT!!! I was there for about 5 months and it was the worst 5 months of my life.
If I wasn't still so afraid I would put my name to this. But I can't. You caused me more damage than I was when I came in. I trusted you. That was a HUGE thing for me to do. You're good at the front door marketing. But then you took advantage. You know it. I know it. I needed therapy - one on one. All you saw was dollar signs and a person who really wanted to get well. A person that absolutely has some mental problems. I do. And that's ok. Apparently not as socially acceptable as drug addiction though.
You didn't help me. You made it worse. And cruelty from other people is part of my struggle. I took a leap of faith and trusted. And you played with mym head. You tried to break me down. To fit the only mold you know. It's a shame really. That you keep getting away with it. I thought about suinhg you, for medical malpractice. But apparently mental abuse doesn't count. I could I guess, on my own. I can speak and write as well as you - use big terms to further my business.
But frankly Im exhausted. Survival is hard when youre all alone. Being abused and frightened and discounted as a person who doesn't know themself only works with someone who is truly out of touch with their disorder. You promised to taylor my treatment to my needs. Then you realized that you couldn't. So you made me believe I am something I'm not, then scared me into staying. The purse was open and you just grabbed it.
I am trying every second of every day to overcome not only my despair that brought me to your so called retreat, but to overcome the damage you did to me while I was there. Damage that no one understands. Because I'm not just numbers 1 5 and 10 in your outdated DSM or whatever it is. I am me and I trusted enough to seek help and you almost destroyed that. Almost.
I talked to ro report's attorney about your subpeona. Nothing in my report was a lie. And maybe if I become strong enough I will tell you who I am so that when you sue me for slander I can counter. But honestly I just want to get better. I really do. But you know what? I'm even more alone now then I was when I came to you for help. And that's not a good thing. Hopefully you have a conscience. But I doubt it. I hope one day I can face you. Standing tall. Confident. Well. And before your self importance graces my presense I will walk quietly away. I hope.
i hate this place so much. i was in hell for a long time and am so happy to have left, although i am still threatened that if i mess up i return and there is no way in hell i will ever go back. I RATHER DIE THAN GO BACK AND SLEEP AT THAT HORRIBLE MOLDY DIRTY HOTEL.
Wellington is No Retreat but it is a sort of hell on earth. This place is owned by Dr. Robert Moran and he controls everything down to the medications he will strip you off of and make you go COLD Turkey. The staff could care less about your well being ...they are techs with no experiance. The only medical staff is the doctor who you will see at morning meetings in front of 50 patients. If you have any personal issues with medication or anything you must talk to the doctor in those so called community meetings. He will not meet with you one on one and you will go through wicked withdrawal, kind of wird right? This man is Dr. Evil.
Here is an interesting transcript from NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICE OF HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, NEW ROCHELLE AREA OFFICE, SUMMARY OF COMPLAINTS.
Date of Admission: June 27, 1996
SPECIAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST DOCTOR ROBERT A. MORAN. I consider Dr. Robert A. Moran's treatment as especially egotistical, arrogant, unethical and abusive of power. I perceived his manner as patronizing, contemptuous, disdainful, mocking and deliberately emotionally manipulative. Dr. Moran, often baited me into conversations he knew would upset me (e.g., how could I imagine I would win in court) and deliberately upset me the day before my court appearance by proposing a different psychiatric drug. I told him often that he was putting me under undue stress by refusing to respect me and to listen to my version of the circumstances leading to my hospitalization. I begged him to be compassionate and assign me to a different doctor. I begged him to be professional: report and find out the facts, don't rely on assumptions and ignorance. But he refused to respond to my requests. Eventually, through lies and manipulation of the inadequate system of checks and balances, Dr. Moran forced his treatment on me--including psychiatric drugs--causing me needless suffering, pain, and loss of dignity.
Reference link: http://www.oocities.org/vdgaines/complaint.html
DO NOT SIGN OVER POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR YOUR MINOR CHILD!!!! My son was severely overmedicated upon his arrival at Wellington Retreat. As the parent of a minor, I was not allowed to question any of the medical treatment given to my child including multiple medications that my son had never been on before- anti-psychotics, anti-seizure, antidepressant,anti anxiety. I called many many times for updates on my child and my voicemail messages went unanswered for days on end, not knowing if my child was alive or dead.. The staff turnover was unbeliveable. The treatment approach for my child was to medicate him so heavily that he could not refuse meds or even advocate for himself. Family calls were supervised by staff with family and patient on speaker and staff would TERMINATE the call if my child or I expressed any concerns about the treatment. Office staff are lax on precertifying treament, assuming that the parents will be billed if insurance denies treament due to lack of pre certification. As a parent of an addicted child, I would NOT recommend sending your child to Wellington Retreat. I know that as parents, we become desperate to save our child from the perils of addiction, but from my childs experience, I would never allow anyone I know to be admitted to Wellington Retreat. As far as transitional housing, young patients are housed in apartments that are not fully supervised. My child stated that most of the yong people in transitional housing would actually sneak out the back windows at night and no one ever knew. ***** Staff threatened on multiple occaisions, to "Baker Act" my child if he did not comply with every treatment and rule imposed. If you send a loved one to treatment, communicate by email with Doctors, counselors, clerical/billing staff and keep copies of all correspondence from day one. You will need a paper trail of all communication. There are many,many treatment facilities for yong people sufferring from addiciton.Do your research before you send them to Wellington Retreat.