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Mental Health & Psychiatry - ECMC Hospital | Buffalo, NY

PsychiatryLackawanna, NY

★★★★☆3.5/52 reviews across 1 platforms

Ratings by platform

  • Healthgrades: 62% (patients who gave a rating of 9 or 10) (Not explicitly listed, aggregated survey data)
  • ObesityHelp: 3.5 out of 5 (2 reviews)
  • Yelp: Generally poor/low sentiment expressed in reviews (70 reviews)

What patients say

Patients praise

  • Positive experiences reported for trauma care and specific surgical procedures
  • Some individual staff members recognized as professional and helpful in non-psychiatric contexts

Common complaints

  • Long wait times and overcrowding in the psychiatric emergency room
  • Staffing shortages and perceived lack of adequate training among nursing and administrative staff
  • Reports of dismissive or rude behavior by clinical and support staff toward mental health patients
  • Concerns regarding the discharge process, follow-up care, and pressure to remain in treatment programs
  • Issues with communication and difficulty reaching the mental health clinics by phone

In patients' words

"E.c.m.c is a terrible hospital!they do not care especially if you have mental illness or addiction they treat people that can not even talk and release them ..."

Yelp Review

"Their staff is criminally negligent and ignore emergencies. The county should step in and audit them."

LocalityBiz Review

"Complaints of violence, long wait times and staffing shortages at ECMC's psychiatric emergency room raise concerns at a time of crisis for the entire mental..."

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How these reviews were compiled

Synthesized from public patient-review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].

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