This place doesn’t even deserve any stars. My nephew was placed here for a week and during this time he was laughed at the psychiatrist (Hu), pumped full of drugs that made him a zombie and treated like an animal in a cage. Upon our visit we found multiple patients literal ...
About Madden Mental Health Center
John J. Madden Mental Health Center is a state-operated acute psychiatric hospital in Hines, Illinois, providing inpatient stabilization and crisis intervention to adults across the Chicagoland area. Operated by the Illinois Department of Human Services, the facility treats serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, alongside co-occurring substance use disorders. The center accepts Medicaid and Medicare, making care accessible to individuals who might otherwise face significant barriers to psychiatric treatment.
Inpatient Psychiatric Care and Crisis Stabilization
Madden Mental Health Center provides short-term acute inpatient care for individuals in psychiatric crisis. A clinical team of psychiatrists and social workers conducts thorough psychiatric evaluations, manages psychotropic medications, and delivers individual and group therapy focused on stabilization, safety planning, and discharge coordination.
Group sessions cover psychoeducation and coping skills within a structured milieu setting. Trauma therapy is also available for individuals whose psychiatric presentation involves a trauma history, and the facility provides suicide prevention services and peer support as part of a broader continuum of care planning.
Youth Crisis Services and Community Partnerships
Through the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services program, Madden Mental Health Center offers crisis assistance for at-risk youth ages 11 to 17, including young people who have run away from home or been displaced from safe housing. The program connects teens with mental health stabilization resources and safe shelter access, focusing on early intervention to reduce longer-term risk.
The facility also partners with domestic violence victim services, rape crisis centers, and youth crisis organizations across Illinois to provide a broader safety net for individuals whose behavioral health needs intersect with housing instability, trauma, or family crisis.
Access and Payment
Madden Mental Health Center is located at 1200 S 1st Ave in Hines, Illinois, serving Cook County and the surrounding Chicagoland region. The facility accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and self-pay. As a state-funded psychiatric hospital certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it provides publicly supported care for adults and youth who need acute behavioral health services.
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Latest Reviews
Shout-out to the angels in there spreading gods light, and the imps that try to keep you there.
Don't put anyone you truly care about in here. Unless you remember phone numbers or addresses, you'd be stuck here. I feel for the people who might possibly have memory issues.
It's a nasty place that I wouldn't put anyone who has mental issues in, no matter how severe.
Terrible terrible place. Cannot get in touch tried for a day straight and when i called my boyfriend he was choking back tears and begging to get out of that place. I can’t stop crying and I miss him so much. They will not let you talk to your loved ones or give you any information. Truly a sick place.
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Other Forms of Payment
Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.
Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.
Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for those 65 and older. It also serves people under 65 with chronic and disabling health challenges. To use Medicare for addiction treatment you need to find a program that accepts Medicare and is in network with your plan. Out of pocket costs and preauthorization requirements vary, so always check with your provider.
Addiction Treatments
Levels of Care
As a state-operated psychiatric hospital, John J. Madden Mental Health Center provides acute, short-term inpatient care for individuals in crisis. Patients receive continuous monitoring, psychiatric evaluations, and stabilization services in a secure, publicly funded setting.
Treatments
The John J. Madden Mental Health Center specializes in acute mental health treatment for severe conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. The facility focuses on psychiatric stabilization, medication management, and comprehensive clinical crisis assessments.
Programs
The adult psychiatric program delivers comprehensive crisis intervention and stabilization for individuals eighteen and older. Treatment emphasizes medication management, safety planning, and connecting patients with ongoing community-based recovery and transition services after their hospital discharge.
Through the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services initiative, John J. Madden Mental Health Center provides crisis assistance for at-risk youth and young adults. This program offers early intervention, safe shelter access, and vital mental health stabilization resources.
Clinical Services
Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.
Patients at this state psychiatric facility participate in structured group therapy sessions as part of their acute care. These clinical groups focus on psychoeducation, coping skills, and milieu therapy to support immediate crisis stabilization and recovery.
During their short-term stay, patients receive individual therapy from clinical social workers and attending psychiatrists. These one-on-one sessions focus on thorough psychiatric evaluation, acute crisis de-escalation, and developing personalized discharge plans for ongoing community support.
Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.
Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.
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Dr. Yetunde Johnson
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Contact Information
1200 S 1st Ave
Hines, IL 60141
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