The inspection found patients were assaulting and sexually assaulting each other inside the facility due to a lack of supervision. When Godfrey and her mother reported the facility to the Utah Department of Health, state employees responded in January 2019 and found the complaints were substantiated. “We just sat around late at night watching TV, like Dexter … It was really really triggering to watch somebody else die.” People were in the hall, and I don’t even know how she would have seen the people that were in the hall,” Godfrey said. Godfrey described issues with lack of supervision, her medication being administered incorrectly, and lack of therapy before discharge. “I think I met with a therapist once, and it was like maybe a 15-minute session.” “Highland Ridge was the worst in-patient I’ve ever been to,” Godfrey said. She said she rarely had a choice of which hospital to go to, due to lack of beds.
Godfrey spent years checking in and out of seven in-patient psychiatric facilities while battling depression. “I was convinced that there was no hope, and I was helpless.” “From the second I got there, I knew I was being exploited,” Godfrey described. Whitney Godfrey was 14 years old when she stayed at the facility in 2018. Many of them describe problems involving abuse and neglect, sometimes leading to fights or sexual assaults between patients. The hospital currently treats both adults and minors.įor months, the FOX 13 Investigates team has been interviewing patients and employees. Highland Ridge Hospital is a for-profit psychiatric facility owned by Acadia Healthcare. MIDVALE, Utah - The Utah Attorney General’s Office confirmed it is “aggressively” investigating a psychiatric hospital in Midvale that has been cited 44 times for more than 100 problems since 2019 but has never been shut down.
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