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Layla Johnson
3 days ago
I personally love my doctor. However, I have an issue and I'm upset.
My doctor, unfortunately, only works one day a week, that's fine, however that's not why I'm upset.
Phones in town have been down ALL WEEK (thank you, Brightspeed). I left work early to go to Access today to have my medication refilled, on the day my doctor is there, because my medication runs out on Sunday, THREE DAYS LATER. I got there at about 1:30 this afternoon, spoke to the lady up front, very sweet lady I might add, told her MULTIPLE TIMES which medication it was as she sent an email to the nurse to forward to my doctor. I was there maybe 10-15 minutes.
I called my pharmacy at 6:55pm, five minutes before they closed, and they don't have it. Two hours after the end of business day, so my doctor was given more than adequate time to do his end of work tasks, and they do not have it. This leads me to believe that no email was sent.
It is 2026. WHY is there not a patient portal of some kind for y'all? There are several stand alone doctor's offices that have one, so that is not an excuse. Why does Access not have one? Why is there not some kind of contingency plan for when this happens? Because y'all's phones tend to go down at least once a month.
People cannot just leave work to come up there to have lifesaving medication refilled, and we rely on your employees to do what they say they're going to do(not saying the receptionist didn't, I'm saying it's a possibility). People have to work in order to survive and pay bills, and they rely on those medications in order to function EVERY. DAY to be able to go to work.
Everyone is well aware there is a mental health crisis in our country, our state is at the very bottom of the list when it comes to adequate mental health care. I rave all the time about how good the care I receive is at this clinic, and recommend y'all ALL. THE. TIME. I've been coming here since I was a teenager, I have family members that have as well. I have had opportunities to move out of state, even out of country, and every time that conversation comes up, I always bring up the fact that I may not find a psychiatrist that gives me such wonderful care like I have here(that and I have tenure at my job).
Y'all pride yourselves in serving the community according to your website, please do better. Because this is unacceptable.
EDIT: I checked my pharmacy app again around 10pm or so and my medication was showing it was being filled.
However I feel my question is still valid and y'all really should consider an back up plan for when this type of situation happens, because your phones do go down quite often, regardless for how long. Patients should have peace of mind knowing that they can still get their medications refilled. And even then, we should not have to call, be transferred, and leave a message on an answering machine like it's 1997 to hope refills get called in to our pharmacy.
We should have a way to directly message our doctor, or at least someone on their team. I understand that with some mental health patients there's certain safety concerns, however that's a risk that regular family doctors take too and Christus and UT still have MyChart.
It would be prudent of Access, if y'all care about your patients as much as you allege, to look into something similar to MyChart (but please do not join Christus, because they restrict what can and cannot be prescribed, among other things, and y'all have some of the only doctors that prescribe what actually helps people, within reason of course), because these are life saving medications that people depend on to be able to do the basic function of their daily lives. The world is moving ahead daily with technology, and Access needs to seriously think about it's patients in this aspect and consider a patient portal app.
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Tammy Weaver
Nov 21, 2025
Most of the people there are helpful and friendly, but when speaking to their nurse, Sara, over the phone, she’s always a bit rude. I’ve left messages for her, when she returns my call she doesn’t leave a vm for me, when being transferred to her, it always goes to vm, once you’re able to speak with her, she has no clue what you’re calling for. I ask her if she got my voicemail, she stated she didn’t even listen to it, so I explained again what I needed. When asking for medical records to be emailed, she just said no, at the end of our conversation, I ask her why I wasn’t allowed to have that information, she then tells me I could come pick them up. Would have been so simple to tell me that from the beginning. The nurses before her never failed to leave a vm, and never seemed rude over the phone.