mental health technician

registered nurse

clinician

director of social services

therapist

Lake Behavioral Hospital

This facility is a terrible place to work. Lets begin by lack of empathy for Patients served. Starting in Intake where they actually lie to the Patients when it comes to their stay. If they have good Insurance, they will make sure they keep you longer. The daily antennary programs or schedule is not followed. Little or no interaction with caseworkers or Nurses. Management is ghetto to say the least. You are offered overtime as needed however, they will cancel you and actually take that overtime from you. This facility has had over 20 Code Purples in my tenure which means that again, investigators from the state are their on complaints from patients. conditions are deplorable!. They also have all diagnosis together in one room whether it be for suicide Ideation, depression and homelessness. The pay maybe good however, conditions are at its worst. Turnover for social Workers or Therapist is very high. Those social workers are over-whelmed because of caseload. Many times, a new patient may not see a social workers for a week or before they are discharged receiving little or no therapy. The technicians are all urban and ghetto. The environment is not contusive and the overall work culture is disturbing to say the least. If you are compassion, dedicated to this field than this cut-throat facility is NOT for you. One supervisor flirts with the male employees and tells them to do what is necessary to quite a upset patient. I do not recommend this place to my worst enemy!.  

Work for this company, if you want to be questioning how you lost sight of your own ethics and reasoning for getting into the mental health field. The only remotely positive characteristic of this company is pay, but that’s because they can’t get anyone who is competent or remotely ethical to work there or stay there. Individuals are promoted based on friendship and loyalty to CEO/COO, not on your own merits. More likely to be promoted if you have no idea what you are actually supposed to be doing. 

Work here if you want to be ashamed of where you work. Work here if you want a red stain on your resume that prevents you from getting an actual good job later in your career. Work here if you only want to collect a paycheck. The culture of this place is management against staff. Your supervisor will throw you under the bus when one of his/her decisions go completely wrong. Your ideas to improve care will always be shot down. 

Caring about the well-being of the patients will turn management against you. The model for treatment is simply housing patients without any actual therapy. Before working here, I suggest you ask around. Most reputable mental health/social service organizations will have something to say about this place. There are some very caring individuals who work here, but the sad part is that they are not supported or adequately trained.

Work environment: 
Great MHTs to work with 
Can be mentally draining 
Very sad work environment-such a dull, enclosing feeling of an environment. Does not feel welcoming nor therapeutic 



Patient care : 
Does not focus on patient care nor patient satisfaction. 
Lacks attention to actual treatment for  mental/ behavioral health.
Most definitely not a therapeutic environment for those who actually want to seek help
Management does not focus on actual patient needs
Does not provide proper therapeutic sessions nor affective material for those who actually want to seek help
improper patient placement
Focuses on authority with patients instead of practicing therapeutic hospitality 
employees aren’t empathetic when it comes to the patients. They talk to them horribly with such disrespect and lack morals


This place is incredibly toxic.  It’s a for profit hospital which means they pay very little and purposefully downgrade you on performance reviews to avoid paying you more. Managers are passive aggressive. They will make snarky comments just to make you feel bad. Other managers obviously can’t manage their own staff so they try to manage staff from other departments. Employees are on their phones all day long rather than interacting with the patients. It’s a revolving door of people. They don’t take the time to train you properly and then blame you when mistakes happen. People leave within weeks of hire. People don’t try to get to know you because you’ll most likely be gone soon. Policies are enforced in a way that is inconsistent among the staff.  Staff know they just have to say “I’m uncomfortable “ and they can get out of having to do work. Their work is assigned to you. 

I've worked in mental health acute inpatient care for many years and Lake Behavioral hospital has some great staff working there and some that are more challenging.  I like that patients I work with, but some of the management and lack of communication is frustrating.  I also feel as I whole staff do not always seem to respect the therapist or patients during group times.  It's a very loud environment and, in my opinion, not very therapeutic.  It can be overcrowded, and I can have over twenty patients in one group setting for a forty-five-minute session.    Also - office space is limited, and I share a small office space with eight other coworkers with only two computers. 

Lbh has so much potential to be a great place to work. However a lot of work needs to be done before that can happen. Upper management does not communicate effectively with their staff. Watch out for the ceo and her scapegoating. She will do just about anything to shift blame.  Call offs are through the roof and its understandable. Staff aren't given recognition for the hard work they do and are worked to the bone. This is a for profit hospital so really the only thing that matters is that bottom line. Money and benefits seem great but the stress isn't worth it. 

Minimal on the floor training given (1-2 weeks) for new grad. Could have up to 13 patients (or an entire unit) on your own. Felt like not having enough staff caused some patients to have episodes and were poorly handled sometimes. Paper charting. Management & administration would have unclear policies. Staff could be rude to each other making it an uncomfortable shift. You really had to watch your back working here because they wouldn’t hesitate trying to put the blame on you for something. Also called got called off almost biweekly sometimes

When you have the desire to grow as a person in your career and you attach yourself to a growing hospital you can make a huge difference. It may not always be sunshine and rainbow and we have to remember this is a business. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at LBH. I have challenges like everyone else but I never allow those challenges to defeat me. I love the open door policy with management and yes we can all learn from each other management and employee. I look forward to what the future holds for me at LBH. I believe that change starts with the person. So be the change you want to see. 

The upper management are very divisive, unprofessional and clearly racist. They promote employees based on personal friendships. They are belittling to employees who work very hard to provide quality care for patients. They are incapable of building a successful organization which makes the company vulnerable to larger healthcare organizations who have been and are currently successful in behavioral health.

This place truly does not care about your safety. They will have you on the floor by yourself, even if you have 15+ patients, which makes your job 10x harder, because you will be in charge of laundry, paper work, rounding on time, doing vitals, and getting stuff prepared for the morning ALL on YOUR OWN even with the fact that they know patients can be needy. They do anything to save money, rather than care for your safety. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Mental health technician 26 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Registered nurse 26 salaries reported	$39.79 per hour
Clinician 15 salaries reported	$31.70 per hour
Director of social services 13 salaries reported	$65,038 per year
Therapist 12 salaries reported	$29.79 per hour

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