Eating Recovery Center Bellevue

Do not come here if you have service dog. They will not be allowed off time.(edit: here definition being able to greet people or have time to decompress with other patients present) Wasn't told til three weeks in and now have to comply or lose access to care. Have experienced harassment and discrimination ongoing being told to just focus on my recovery. Curbing three weeks worth of schedule with my service dog because I am in refeeding and have a feeding tube. I have comply with whatever they say now or id be homeless. No religious accommodation set up for muslims unless you ask and educate them. Edit: they finally kept my door open on residential but no where to pray on php. Bugs in food have happened while I was here and hair. Edit: mold in food Lastly in three weeks no seizure protocols. Theyre supposed to take vitals every 5-10 mins and 30 after. My dog has been overworked due to lack of support during seizures. No fire alarm protocols for those who need them. Edit: they suddenly started to do precautions but had a paper that was incorrect on facts about the seizures "eyes are normally open in pnes" which is not factually accurate... Edit: it is not an allergen free facility. Patients are being forced to quit program on attendance not being on time for php meanwhile these patients have adhd. Jewish patients were favorably treated towards the end of my stay on residential. Kosher is provided but lack of halal options or pork checks on gelatin. There have also been complaints to doh with doh failing to investigate; hippa violations, allergy concerns, ADA not being respected for those with neuro divergence or wheelchair accommodations such as push buttons for doors....

I originally wrote a review of ERC when I was 14 years old and still extremely sick, angry, and traumatized. Now nearly four years later, I want to share a more reflective and honest perspective on my experience. I will say this clearly: ERC saved my life physically. When I was admitted, I was severely medically unwell, and forced recovery including being tube fed was necessary for me to survive. Without that intervention, I could have died. For that, I am grateful. However, saving someone’s life does not excuse unsafe practices, dishonesty, or emotional harm. Looking back the negatives of this program still outweigh the positives. Pros: -ERC stabilized me physically and prevented me from dying. -There was a significant amount of school time. -The other patients I met were some of the most genuine and meaningful connections I have ever had. - PHP was noticeably better than residential Cons: - Poor quality and repetitive therapy: Therapy felt shallow and repetitive, often consisting of the same worksheets over and over with little individualized care. Some patients barely saw their individual therapists during long stays. - Unsafe and unqualified staffing: Many staff members were college students with minimal training in eating disorders or trauma care. There were frequent snarky remarks, inappropriate comments, denial of medications, and long periods where patients were left unattended. - Medical mistakes and dishonesty: There were serious medical errors. Untrained college students were allowed to manage NG tubes without proper supervision, and I personally had my feed set up incorrectly, causing it to spill onto my clothes. In another case, two patients tube feeds were switched, a dangerous mistake that was not disclosed to the patient or parents until a nurse accidentally admitted it. ERC also misrepresents expectations for length of stay, telling families treatment lasts 6–8 weeks when during my five months in residential and additional time in PHP I only saw that happen once. I also witnessed patients being kicked out for minor issues like grabbing paper from a teacher or refusing group therapy, including one patient discharged the day before their planned release. When this happens, insurance stops covering care and they have to pay out of pocket. ERC is money hungry and knows what they are doing. - Punishment based system When problems occurred, the main response was punishment removal of writing utensils, fidgets, or outside breaks. This only worsened power struggles between staff and patients and did not address underlying issues. -Bullying There was intense drama between patients and staff. Patients largely hated the staff, and staff often seemed to dislike the patients in return. Bullying among patients was common and poorly handled. Cliques formed, and some patients were targeted or ostracized for saying something triggering. Many of us were young, desperate to belong, and emotionally fragile, and this environment made things worse. It has been four years since I was admitted, and I still think about this experience regularly. I still struggle with my eating disorder, and I would not consider myself fully recovered. What keeps me from ever returning to the level of illness I was at is not hope or positivity, it is fear. I am terrified of ever having to experience treatment like this again. I have noticed this pattern in many former patients I’ve spoken to. Recovery is driven not by feeling supported, but by fear of being sent back. That is not a healthy or sustainable foundation for healing. ERC is better than no treatment at all if someone is severely ill and at risk of dying. In that sense, it can be life saving. But parents and patients deserve to know that this program can also leave lasting emotional scars. If you send your child here, they will not forget it. This experience stays with you. - P.P. Alpha male -P.P. Schemck -P.P. Freakazoid If any patient I met while i stayed there is reading this i love you and never stop being yourself

ERC saved my life when I thought nothing could. The bad reviews are mostly from the child/adolescent floor, which I have heard is a lot more strict and restrictive than the adult floor. I can’t speak on that because I only went to the adult residential/PHP/IOP. Now for the review. Adult res genuinely saved my life. I have ARFID and felt I was too far gone to recover. The MC’s and providers at ERC changed my mind. Food wise, they provided me with the very few foods I am able to eat. They would even go to the store and buy the specific brands I like. They found a way to fit all food groups into my meals, and by the end of my treatment I was surprisingly able to eat everything on my plate. I credit the therapy and exposures for this. Therapy wise, I appreciated the style they went about this. You have an individual therapist and also group therapy. The groups were one of the most beneficial parts of my treatment. I may have gotten lucky with my milieu but there is encouragement without pressure to share and show vulnerability. There is also a curriculum teaching about distress tolerance skills, DBT/CBT/ACT, etc. The skills I learned have been incredibly helpful. If you ever meet Dana, Kartyre, Dr. Seely, Greta, Emily, or Tim, it would benefit you to talk to them. They are the people that got me through treatment. I couldn’t ask for a better team. ERC if you are seeing this I would appreciate you letting these staff members know that they saved my life. If you are over 18 and have ARFID I would recommend ERC Bellevue.

The PHP program was successful at helping our teen with arfid/ednos. Gave her the time she needed away from school and social pressures to focus on just eating and getting better. The IOP step down was also helpful. We’re grateful.

I was in the adolescent residential unit in 2023. Don't send your kids here. There are better treatment programs. Extremely inappropriate staff and your child may be at risk of peer harassment. The staff treat patients terribly and make quality of life worse. Out of the four treatment centers I've been sent to this is by far the worst. They are not trauma informed or ED informed and the C-PTSD I had got worse. The staff put their hands on me and I was held down at one point while having a C-PTSD attack. I was not harming anyone nor around any other patients. No one was at risk. This just worsened the attack I was having from CSA. They deny you basic human rights and treat you more like pawns than humans. The staff is a bunch of untrained college students who needed quick cash. They do "check-ins" midway through your meal to try and be supportive but 9/10 it was just more triggering and made me want to eat less. Nothing here helped me recover from my eating disorder, I did that all on my own.

Listen to the reviews. This place is a horrible "recovery center" that helped not a person in the full nearly 2 months I was there. The system is built to create repeat customers (people who relapse and keep coming back). I was stuck on the adolescent floor for two months. They took away my napkins, my shoes, and my squishy stress toys. The staff are on some kind of power craze, they take away whatever they want over the smallest accident. Patients feel dehumanized and used. ERC claims to have 4-5 hours of group therapy a fay but there is no such thing. Instead people are crammed into a small, blue, cold room and are repeated the same bullshit over and over from different staff. Speaking of staff, the only people that did their jobs were mainly floor staff. BHTs (staff who supervise the kids) and MCs (staff who run group therapy) were the best people there, and even then there was only 2 good MCs. Once, someone was crying and having a little bit of a break during a processing group, and the board certified therapist told her that she was overreacting, and asking for attention. Our feelings are ignored by our "treatment" team. Everything we do is seen as a behavior. When we ask for a fork with our soup, we get marked down and reported to our teams. Every little thing we do is picked apart and disected. We have to censor our every word, calling everything food related "bistro" and everything bath related "spa". Even during therapy, we aren't allowed to talk about the very things that had us end up here, even if it would help us. The clinicians are quick to put NG tubes into their patients if they aren't completing some insane amount of their meal requirements. ERC teaches everything but recovery. It teaches the waiting game. They overfeed the patients and make them clinically obese in the hopes that they will give up ever trying to be thin. On top of that, they act like the only eating disorder is Anorexia Nervosa (restricting type) which is really damaging. What that kind of environment does is foster a potentially more harmful disorder that could end up killing you or your child. As a program, they are so obsessed with weight. They weigh us every day and punish us if we refuse. Weight is the only thing driving the worthless clinicians lives at that place. ERC is not a place you send your child if you want to recoverer. ERC is not a place you send yourself to if you want to recover. It only crushes your humanity and makes you worse. This place was literally traumatizing

I got transferred into their residential care from the Seattle location with basically no info before hand, and then never got any orientation while I was there. Even after making this known several times they didn’t do anything and then discharged from the program because “it wasn’t working for me”. Pathlight is a joke and you should stay clear, they didn’t even bother to remove long cords from a bed on the unit with suicidal people.

Hello!! I was here at the adolescents residential unit for three-four months. Out of the other residential recovery centers i’ve been too, this by far might be the worst experience of my life. It was not the best in my case. As far as i’m concerned, the clinical manager always shuts down the peers during community and does 𝗡𝗢𝗧 listen to us. There has been so many reports about bugs in 𝗢𝗨𝗥 food and no one has taken cared of 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚. Why do they not care about the bugs? Do they want us to continue being afraid to bite? For a matter of fact, no one even tries to listen to us other than 𝗕𝗛𝗧’𝗦. This place was a 𝗝𝗢𝗞𝗘 you could never escape from. It has not been ‘𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆’ focused in my opinion. Most of the staff don’t do nothing to help our frustration and needs, but yet, they get mad at us for not stopping us and letting it out on other people?? Make up your mind. Again, this place was just messed up. This place was extremely neglectful and only cares about ‘𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.’ Most places fix your mental health and get you back on track slowly.. But this? They don’t care about your mental health. If you do need the help, get some. This place might be for you but this was not it for 𝗺𝗲. — ALSO BELLA AND OLIVIA THANKS FOR BEING THERE FOR ME WHEN I WAS MY LOWEST LOVE YOU BOTH !! :D