Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Herrick Campus - Berkeley (CA)

5 /5 Stephanie Bilodeau: This place and the people in it save precious lives everyday. My mother has spent many nights in facilities like these as someone with a severe mental illness. This one was different. It was compassionate. The doctors were caring and invested in helping her get better with the right treatment and medications. It’s a fine balance trying to figure out what each individual person needs — and the doctors and staff from the recreational therapists to the people who brought her the socks with the sticky bottoms each day — helped her feel safe and cared for. Surprisingly, she said the food wasn’t bad at all.

5 /5 nikki adkins: I really liked it there. I was in there for a mental health crisis, and I had a lot of fun. Being there healed me as a person. All the staff was very kind, always checking up on me and making sure I had everything I needed. Making friends and the chocolate milk was the best part though. If you ever go, try the chocolate milk.

4 /5 Ellie Weiksner: pretty good as far as psych places go. some nice staff. showers are SO cold tho. i wish they’d do something about that.

5 /5 Stephanie Bilodeau: This place and the people in it save precious lives everyday. My mother has spent many nights in facilities like these as someone with a severe mental illness. This one was different. It was compassionate. The doctors were caring and invested in helping her get better with the right treatment and medications. It’s a fine balance trying to figure out what each individual person needs — and the doctors and staff from the recreational therapists to the people who brought her the socks with the sticky bottoms each day — helped her feel safe and cared for. Surprisingly, she said the food wasn’t bad at all.

5 /5 nikki adkins: I really liked it there. I was in there for a mental health crisis, and I had a lot of fun. Being there healed me as a person. All the staff was very kind, always checking up on me and making sure I had everything I needed. Making friends and the chocolate milk was the best part though. If you ever go, try the chocolate milk.