Universal Health Services: Provo Canyon Behavioral Hospital is Rebranded as Aspen Grove Hospital

P. D.

2025-03-03 10:16:30

The Provo canyon behavioral hospital which was renamed to Aspen Grove a year or two ago at the suspicious time when Paris Hilton went very public. She was at a different physical building than where I was. And she was there for 9 months and so they had to call it a school of course. And I was locked up for 7 days so of course I was at a hospital. But in general we had the same kind of bad experience. I was in Saratoga springs ER and told I would receive two days outpatient as my penalty for my negative behavior. And then the doctor drugged me to sleep and basically I woke up in Provo hospital. Nobody told me how long I had to stay there and I asked a lot of times. But in my mind it was two days outpatient since that is what I was promised in writing and verbally by the medical team at the ER. And I first thought I would just be able to drive home at the end of the first day and then go back the next day. But it was a jail. And they had extreme limitations and strict rules on what communication is allowed between patients and even more strict rules on communication to the outside world. Of course no internet or phones or any of your personal belongings. When I first got there they told me I could send two outgoing emails to whomever to let them know where I was. And maybe I misinterpreted it that I thought it was every day we were allowed two emails with the outside world. And actually in my mind I had no reason to even send any outgoing emails since I would be going home and back to work and why the hell would I email my employer and bother them with my medical concerns when I thought I was going home very soon. I was going to be back to work soon. So anyway after the first day I respectfully asked and begged and begged and begged to everyone who would talk to me. Most employees seemed extremely overworked and didn't or wouldn't take the time to listen to me at all until it was my time for the scheduled 5 minute doctor appointment or whatever was scheduled for me. Or 1 minute forceful pharmaceutical drug treatment that everyone was forced to do. Basically line up like animals and take your little cup of pills with a little cup of water when it's your turn. You can't say no. You can try to hide them in your mouth which Paris did but got beat up and found in the garbage. FYI throw away pills in toilet and flush. Never put pills in garbage. To me it's a no-brainer but a 16 year old Paris Hilton I guess was innocent and didn't think about it. Anyway the drug they forced me was Seroquel and it made me feel very very strange and so I told the nurse at night who gives out medication that I felt like I wanted to not take it but take something else to help me sleep and she said that would be fine and so I did not take it that evening. Wow the next day Dr G got upset and acted like I was a criminal for not taking his drugs as he prescribed exactly. It's hard to describe him but words like prideful, pompous, know it all, rude, no listening to patient, superior, etc come to mind.

Anyway One drug they forced me to take was Seroquel 150 mg which made me feel very dizzy and out of it even the next day. And shortly after my first dose I had a seizure in the cafeteria where at least 20 or 30 other patients and employees saw and witnessed. Someone later told me that I looked really scary and my eyes were rolled back and completely white and I was shaking etc. But the whole time I was 100% conscious and I could even force myself to walk from the food line to the nearest chair and just sit there and rest. But I was conscious and so I quickly walked to my hospital babysitter and she quickly saw that I was in trouble and brought me back to the medical area and they gave me a Valium and doctor told me to rest for the rest of the day in my room on my bed which I did. But my medical report of that event has a different diagnosis of something like an actual fainting from lack of blood to the brain and going out of conscious event which is of less severity than a seizure. And later at home I researched my symptoms on the internet and the best match is a Focal Seazure. For the 7 Days in the hospital I always referred to it as a seizure since that is what a lot of people including some employees for sure verbalized it as. But the doctor on that same day said he thought it was chemical withdrawal symptoms. And of course I knew from a lot of past experience that this was complete nonsense because I have many experiences that I will not go into but I am very aware of that sort of thing. And later I ordered my complete medical charts from the hospital for 7 days while I was there. And someone diagnosed it on my chart as. syncopal episode. And they stated "he did not have a seizure". Worded very close to that like it was a 100% medical fact and end of story and done and complete nothing else to look at or examine. Later researching I found it can be very difficult to diagnose seizures versus other things and so I can understand how they could say their opinion, yes opinion is what happened. But the funny thing is they worded it in such a way that made it more difficult to take them to court over abusive medical treatment. I mean would a judge listen to a medical doctor's diagnosis on paper or to a low life patient like me??? If I was a judge I would put the doctors opinion about the patient higher. Sad but true. But anyway syncopal episode on Google research says it always involves fainting. And I sure as hell didn't faint and and never lost consciousness and had little lower body symptoms at all in my legs. It was all from my waist up to my head a feeling of electricity shooting through my body. My arms and upper body would move and shake with twitching and extreme anxiety and confusion and eyes rolled back and looking very scary to other patients they told me later. Everyone I talk to told me their opinion is that it was a seizure and many had experience seeing other seizures and typing in my symptoms into Google leads me to the best diagnosis is that it was a FOCAL SEAZURE. Yes it's my opinion and I experienced the symptoms myself. And the doctor never asked me details about my symptoms and experience. It's strange that it was basically swept under the rug and on my medical charts having diarrhea or constipation gets a lot more verbiage and text and worry by the doctors and medical team. So many stupid little things like "he woke up several times during the night" are detailed in my chart and get a lot of attention but something like a seizure is treated like taboo by this hospital. I think it's part of the whole company and hospital culture to downplay anything like that. Anyway I knew pharmaceutical drugs like that might have side effects like seizures so I asked the office to print me out a description of Seroquel which they did surprisingly. But yes 100%, seizures is a side effect of Seroquel. And the feeling and sensation it gave me even made it feel like it is what contributed my seizure. I say contributed because I also had an extreme amount of stress due to the rule of no contact with my employer. More about that later. I think the interesting thing is that a judge in a small claims court reading my medical report would even come to the same conclusion that my diagnosis was worded in such a way that it was very suspicious and very much jumping to conclusions and saying it was a fact in such a way to stand up in court legally. The words may stand up legally but a judge could easily interpret them as contrived and artificial. I get the feeling that it is a hospital work culture to generally downplay any medical emergency and quickly get it under control and document it in a benign way. A medical diagnosis is difficult and requires a lot of testing so it's not really possible for someone to say 100% sure that it was not a seizure. I'm surprised the word "opinion" or "as best we can determine" or something more truthful like that is missing. So not much written about it even though it was a major health emergency even to the employee in the cafeteria who quickly brought me back and doctors gave me Valium etc. if I were a doctor I would advise the patient to get more testing or doctor care after leaving the Paris Hilton hospital. But there was no advice or anything about my seizure like that in my go home detailed report. They found hey psychiatrist and a therapist and even a marriage therapist and actually scheduled 3 actual appointments for me in advance for the following weeks after I was released. But nothing about the seizure was written on the details about what I should do and what I should be careful with etc when I go home. Nothing zero, Seazure swept under the rug. Documented in defensive way for legal worded protection. But it's funny that logically someone could easily see through their defensive verbiage.

Anyway since the ER doctor promised me two days outpatient therapy in writing and verbally and that's what I expected. Provo hospital Aspen Grove would never ever tell me or even hint about how long I have to stay and when I could go. Zero. End of discussion. Nothing to even talk about. Always a response like talk to your other doctor in your next scheduled appointment. Or we have to wait and see. Or I don't know. Or it depends how well you do. Or there are many things we need to do first. Or blah blah blah nothing. I didn't know I would be there 7 days until I was on my 7th Day in the morning and they actually told me I would be released that day and so I should schedule and make a phone call for someone to pick me up at a specific time which I did.

As a patient my interpretation and feeling was like some sort of government mind control or break the patient down to submission. Or even gaslighting is a good description for a lot of practices and things they say to patients. They really try to scare you into thinking that you the patient will not be able to leave until you become a perfect student and get an A grade on every single group or personal therapy or meeting or whatever I had. It was actually brainwashing and using scare tactics which worked. I think the main thing is they would always treat you as having a major issue or as someone who is broken. Every single meeting or appointment or whatever over the 7 days started as though you are defective and either doctor or nurse or employee know a lot more than you. Reinforcement like that is what I say is brainwashing.

Anyway funny thing is a kind nurse or employee felt sorry for me when she saw my stress for the first few days of disappearing from dropping off the face of the Earth and disappearing from my job with zero word to my employer. And my job is such that daily contact is required as part of my job in order to be employed. Daily communication is just part of my job. So if I just leave and disappear that is extremely bad for me and gives me a black eye and gives them reason to even fire me. So the nurse saw my extreme extreme extreme stress and waited until all the doctors and head management left for the day. And then in the evening she snuck my laptop to me which was locked up and let me send an email to my employer. She looked very nervous like she was breaking a rule and could get in trouble. Funny thing is other employees saw and seemed to try to act like they didn't see what was happening. And so of course there are some good and nice employees and nurses working there. Thank you so much to that nurse. And of course I am not bashing anyone in particular except the doctors and people in charge at the top. In fact I think even top management forces employees to do things that are not in the best interest of the patient but in the interest of money. Hey I'm open to meeting with any of the doctors or management to try to help them fix their company. But I think the important thing is to open reports with the state health department or agency etc. and document with authorities what happened in my situation. The ER that promised two days outpatient therapy had that official document disappear and an IHC investigation has already been opened to try to figure out what happened to that document since they believe me. If you have an details that makes it really clear that I'm not lying about it. You there somebody made a mistake and then shredded the document or it was just really bad communication between doctor and patient or people didn't follow ER hospital protocol.

Anyway lastly coming home I feel I am in worse condition in a couple ways. For example I now have extreme PTSD and extreme anxiety and depression to a severity like I've never had before.

In reality now I have crazy medical bills to pay legally unless I go to court. Or unless the IHC investigation find out what happened and does something to help with the hospital bill. Also a real possible outcome could be loss of job, unable to pay mortgage and lose of house. Wife and family temporarily stranded while I find work at a local gas station so I could qualify for an apartment to rent. Anyway people around me and people where I live and people in the know now have a really bad impression about me. The best solution is always love and open honest clear communication.

On the positive side I feel like a an overcomer being able to put up with that much BS and still have a positive attitude and not give in to anger. And also I enjoyed talking with other inmates at the hospital about interesting topics.