Since 2008, Lindner Center of HOPE has served as a lifeline to tens of thousands who've faced the struggle of mental illness or addiction. Offering a wide range of mental health services and treatments in an atmosphere that promotes long-term healing, we are staffed by some of the nation's best psychiatric experts.
Lindner Center of HOPE is a place entirely dedicated to hope - and finding your unique path forward. Located on 36 beautiful acres in a serene, wooded setting between Cincinnati and Dayton, Lindner Center of HOPE is a nationally-ranked non-profit comprehensive mental health center and psychiatric hospital that has served more than 48,000 patients and their families.
Lindner Center of HOPE is a place entirely dedicated to hope - and finding your unique path forward. Located on 36 beautiful acres in a serene, wooded setting between Cincinnati and Dayton, Lindner Center of HOPE is a nationally-ranked non-profit comprehensive mental health center and psychiatric hospital that has served more than 48,000 patients and their families.
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Edo Spotts
Jan 03, 2022
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The staff here was incredible, and very helpful! Unfortunately it is very classist....it seems they only want to help the extremely wealthy...I used to love this place, but now I will never recommend this place to anyone.
They don’t take state issued insurance...and unfortunately since the pandemic, and being let go from my full time job. It’s been hard to receive good insurance through work. I love my therapists and mental health team, and wish I could keep them but now I’ll be forced to find a place that is probably not as good because I’m on state insurance now....
Update they also
They don’t take state issued insurance...and unfortunately since the pandemic, and being let go from my full time job. It’s been hard to receive good insurance through work. I love my therapists and mental health team, and wish I could keep them but now I’ll be forced to find a place that is probably not as good because I’m on state insurance now....
Update they also
Kristina Mapes
Jan 02, 2022
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I would call it more Lindner center of Hopelessness. I worked with the nurse practitioner they are named Mary Joe Pollock. Besides the fact that she lacked The most valuable aspect of mental health a provider can offer is compassion, she attacked me verbally and did not handle my mental health needs well. She also said things that were not true and I have voicemails with her words on them telling me what to do and that was to go to a hospital. I did go to the hospital and the provider at the hospital took care of me and discharge me with prescriptions. She then lashed out at me and said I got prescriptions
Holly Fritz
Dec 19, 2021
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I was at my wits end with my anxiety, my body was starting to shut down from the stress. I did the in-patient and PHP program. Everyone was super caring and were really concerned about how I was feeling. They helped me with new medication and taught me valuable tools. I am so thankful for the Linder center, there needs to be more places like it!!!!
Oliver
Oct 19, 2021
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Stayed here against my will in the 11-18 y/o inpatient ward last year. was a horrible experience; it just made everything worse. they pretended to listen to me but just went along with everything my parents said. i would clearly tell them "no, i don't want to do xyz" or "no, i don't feel xyz," and would be either ignored or gaslighted. i was put on meds that i didn't recognize, and when i would ask what they were i would be given a scientific name and no explanation as to what the meds actually did. i had to do a strip and squat like they do in prisons, and at the time i was 13. there was a towel
Ali Lopez
Oct 01, 2021
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My complaint is specifically with a Doctor, Dr. Pettibone, more so than with the facility. The facility is good, but Dr. Pettibone should absolutely not be working in a mental health hospital. He was highly insensitive.
After speaking with me for not even five minutes, Dr. Pettibone gave me a long list of “diagnoses” and when I asked him to explain to me/ what made him think that… His response:
“I’d tell you, but I feel like you’re just going to disagree and I’M the professional.”
(😷)
I’d like to remind everybody who is seeking Mental Health treatment that the doctors should
After speaking with me for not even five minutes, Dr. Pettibone gave me a long list of “diagnoses” and when I asked him to explain to me/ what made him think that… His response:
“I’d tell you, but I feel like you’re just going to disagree and I’M the professional.”
(😷)
I’d like to remind everybody who is seeking Mental Health treatment that the doctors should
Alcid Jacobs
Sep 27, 2021
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The mental health outpatient program I did was incredible. If I could give them zero stars I would because in 2020 when I attended they didn’t offer financial aid, during a worldwide pandemic when I was out of a job and at Lindner due to mental health issues exasperated by lockdown. They’re never getting their money from me. Unbelievable
Jetplane Hollywood
Sep 17, 2021
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Good luck with resolving refill issues by phone. A few years ago it took a few minutes to talk to a live person and get it resolved. Over the years that has turned into a couple of hours, then by the end of the day, and now 24+ hours. According to the outgoing message it may be 3 business days! No big deal, how important are mood stabilizers really? If not to staff properly where is all the money going I wonder..
Cieran Speakman
Sep 04, 2021
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Staff were amazingly helpful, the private rooms definitely helped too. Always offering any help they can and trying to understand. Clean environment. Beautiful plants outside and places to get air, and great groups. Definitely recommend if you need it. I'm now home and safe, and working toward getting better.
Michael S.
Aug 04, 2021
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My experience with the in patient crisis units has not been great. They will release a patient when the patient is not safe to leave and have poor follow up options. The psychiatrist we saw on an out patient basis ended up refusing to continue to see my daughter because she had drug issues. She would not follow all of the psychiatrists prescriptions and would take her own meds on the side. This is a drug addiction issue, something not uncommon with mental health patients, yet the psychiatrist's response was, I can't see you any more. She has since left Linder.
On two occasions Linder
On two occasions Linder
Lisa Au-Yang
Jul 25, 2021
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A year after my stay at Lindner, I’m still benefiting from the skills I learned through DBT and CBT therapy. The experience gave me the time and support I needed to focus only on myself and living a better life. I was totally hopeless going in, as I tried therapy, TMS, and ketamine treatments to try to break out of my depression, but nothing was working. At Lindner, I was able to overcome my severe depression, and continued to improve after my stay. The staff was very knowledgeable and flexible in responding to my individual need for more one on one coaching. Everyone that I met at Lindner benefitted
Alyssa D.
Jul 04, 2021
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I want to like this place because there are good qualities like the cleanliness and thoroughness. However I can't help but feel utter disgust. The staff treats it like a daycare, most of the groups during the day are either skipped or substituted for things like coloring. You're paying a whole lot of money to be babysat and not taken seriously. It feels like a conveyer belt where you are just an item and they want to just get you in and out. Don't go here if you are wanting long term solutions or help, instead go here if you need somewhere to sit for a few days, feel small, and be
Megan S.
Jun 24, 2021
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We called because we needed help. Isn't that why people call this kind of place? Shouldn't the person who answers the phone at this kind of place be compassionate to the people calling for help? She told us that there were no therapists available, I asked if there was anything they could do because we were desperate. She said she was not going to go back and forth with me about this, started spouting out numbers of doctors in the area way too fast for us to write it down and then hung up on me. I'm baffled. This place was recommended to me but I will be campaigning against it
Emma P.
Mar 18, 2021
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Olivia Farmer
Feb 17, 2021
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I’ve been to the Linder Center twice, once for inpatient, once for outpatient. For inpatient, you get your own room. My main issue was that since there’s quite a few people with you, you don’t get to talk a lot with the specialists there. The majority of time is spent with the other patients, making it more like a daycare than a rehabilitation facility. I also didn’t get to use their gym until my fifth and final day there because the doctors wouldn’t sign off that I could use it, although I asked on my second day. The nurses were pretty nice though.
Outpatient is pretty much a daycare
Outpatient is pretty much a daycare
Susan T.
Aug 17, 2020
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Billing practices unacceptable. They don't bill your insurance properly then they send you to collections. You try to get answers to your questions and they don't call you back. After writing numerous letters that go unansered they send you to collections. My family member wrote Paul Keck, CEO trying to get a billing manager to call back to work through the numerous billing issues created by Lindner. No response. Instead of getting a callback from billing manager they sent my family member to collections.
They are incompetent and were unable to explain insurance payments and my
They are incompetent and were unable to explain insurance payments and my
Crolie L.
Jun 02, 2019
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Mikey K.
Feb 23, 2019
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Regardless of their reputation, their staff is in no way equipped to deal with patients with eating disorders. Their protocol for patients with eating disorders is to avoid the problem instead of facing it head on. While being there I felt like the staff had more concerns on how much I wrote in a journal than actually talking to me, listening to me and giving me solutions. They're more focused on an immediate fix (i.e their impatient facility) than a long term solution that will last longer than a week once you leave. No one I know who's gone to Lindner has had a positive experience.
John G.
Aug 11, 2018
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Scary and evil place. Has a private police force. Does electro convulsive therapy. You do not want to eat the food or drink the drinks. Forced me into taking medication. Locked me in the psych ward for five days and tricked me into signing a form that made me consenting to be there. A psychiatrist Dr. Reeve told me point blank she could write false information on my report if she wanted to. It's a scam and a genuinely terrifying one. Don't send your loved one here please. Stay away
Ryan M.
Jul 26, 2018
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I am a Lindner Center patient, and so is my daughter. My experience with one of the nurse practitioners has been fantastic. She is incredibly caring, listens to my concerns, and has gotten me on a medication regimen that is working quite well. Likewise, my experience with one of the psychologists has been very positive. Again, she's obviously very caring, and seems to deeply care about me. I found sessions with her to be quite helpful, when I was attending them. My daughter just started there recently and, thus far, seems to be headed in the right direction for improving her mental health
Lauren C.
Jun 16, 2018
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The Lindner Center spreads misinformation that is extremely dangerous for patient care. It is irresponsible for this company to post online webinars and give out information (I hesitate to even call it that) about physical diseases that they treat as mental illnesses. It's absurd for them to think they are doing what's best for patients when the information out there significantly contradicts their statements, but because they are this fancy mental health facility their voices will be heard and not the parents or doctors of these sick kids. Despicable.
Marie P.
Jun 07, 2018
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Wow, I can't even begin to describe the telephone conversation I just had with a woman named Jenny in intake. She was the most rude, abrasive, unprofessional lady I have ever encountered upon my first contact with any hospital. They need a new intake person. If they treat patients at this facility in the manner Jenny treated me, just calling to determine if the facility was appropriate to consider for a family member, I would say run. This is not the place. They don't know how to treat people. I couldn't ask any questions. Before I could complete a sentence, she would rudely shout
Karen D.
Jan 24, 2017
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I am writing because I love The Lindner Center. The doctors and staff are usually great. But starting in March 2017 they are requiring any and all outpatients to sign an agreement to pay them $200 a year because they don't get enough reimbursement from insurance companies. But the way a PPO works is the insurance company and The Lindner Center have a contract and agree on a reimbursement between the two. So why is The Lindner Center now coming to patients for money when The Lindner Center agreed on those insurance payments? So I pay full price when I go there because they are not in my network
Anon K.
Apr 05, 2016
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Basically prison. Inpatient is confined, there's terrible food, worse vegetarian options, and being there is mind numbingly boring. Some staff members care. Others are just there to enforce the rules. Don't feel like I learned much about myself due to the fact that they don't have any free time where they encourage you to explore or anything.
Adolescent PHP is possibly worse--no windows, no moving around at all, you're expected to trust staff immediately or you'll be bothered about it, same crappy food, and no getting to talk with other patients.
Adolescent PHP is possibly worse--no windows, no moving around at all, you're expected to trust staff immediately or you'll be bothered about it, same crappy food, and no getting to talk with other patients.
Bob K.
Nov 05, 2014
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This facility is definitely not family freindly. our 44 year old daughter went into treatment for eating disorder for a second time. two days later my wife was called by a social worker( stacey reece) and was told she was not welcome, because she had threatened a staff member. i took the phone and asked the social worker to repeat everything to me. i became infuriated because the charge was a blatent lie, that i also was not welcome at the center anymore. consequently, we have not been able to contact our daughter for two months. they hide behind the hipaa laws. we don't have any idea where
