Season's Malibu Rehab Terrible medical care, fraudulent billing of insurance, inappropriate drug protocal for detox, and more Malibu, California

Season's is with out a doubt the most unethical, poorly run and dangerous rehab I've ever encountered in a State/California that is filled with bad rehabs.  I thought I had seen the worst until I met the people at Season's.  The CEO/Manager, at the time, was Chris Bathum who has currently been arrested and was fired from Season's.  He literally took $70,000 from us after convincing our son to stay for another month, and then as soon as he received our money he threw our son out on the street penniless.  When we tried to contact them to find out what was going on the refused to answer our calls.  We hired a lawyer in Washington State, and she did a background check of the owner's of this facility and found a slew of criminal charges against them.  Additionally, the state of California had licensed them for only 6 beds yet they had over 30 people staying in their facility in violation of state law.  One patient, just released from a mental health hold, was lost in the mountains the first night he arrived.  Another patient was being detoxed off of opiates with no medical supervision, and if not for our son's intelligent intervention she was overdosing on the drugs that they were giving her to detox (the drugs were being administered by a "tech" - an untrained worker) who just kept giving her more and more drugs until she was at the point of near death.  Luckily, given our son's persistence that she needed help she was finally hospitalized and her life was spared.  This facility has had so many problems with their standard of care, and their violation of state laws that hey have changed their name numerous times, and re-invented themselves so that they could continue to steal money from families suffering and in pain trying to save their loved ones.  I hope that, at some point, the State of California will do their job and get out to this facility and look at all the violations they are committing - really licensed for 6 beds with over 30 clients?

I have extensive information on Season's, all the criminal records of those that own the facility, and would be very interested in filing a lawsuit.  I'm out $70,000, and they damaged our child far more than they helped him.  This is the most disreputable facility I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with, and all the  doctor's, staff, etc. have rotated from one crummy Malibu rehab to another.   It's like a bad dream these unqualified people just keep moving from place to place once the licensing agencies, or clients, get wise to their lies.  Please feel free to contact me for more information as I have to much to post on this site.

Whatever you do please do not send a loved one to this house of horrors.  There are good rehabs, but just because they look nice doesn't mean that the are good, ethical or qualified to deal with a very serious disease - addiction.