This is a big issue in PA. I used to be able to have my PCP write all my scripts, including the ones for my ADHD, and anxiety, but now I have to rely on mental health services for them.

Whatever you do, if you can, avoid WellSpan Philhaven at all costs. They don’t have nearly enough dr’s, so it can take six months to a year to even get in for your first appt. Then you can only book three follow-up appts at a time. Once you’ve had those appts and you go to schedule your next ones, the dr’s schedule has filled, and you have to wait another six to eight months to be seen again. This effectively bumps you off of your dr’s patient list, which means not only do you need to start all over from the beginning, but you also can’t get your meds filled w/out being seen. The whole place is a giant clusterfuck.

TW: un-aliving I was referred to them Oct 2018, when my fiancé decided to kill himself. I didn’t get my first appointment until sometime around April 2019. I think I had two rounds of appts before they couldn’t fit me into their schedule anymore. My father died last year, and they still haven’t gotten me an appt for that. I finally went and found a grief support group on my own.

They also don’t return phone calls or messages, and they are terrible about getting refills to the pharmacy on time (and these are for meds that you aren’t supposed to go off abruptly). I still see a nurse via telemed, but that’s just to check up on my meds and make sure I don’t have the urge to hurt myself or others. 🙄 I’ve never actually seen the dr who actually prescribes them for me.

I don’t think the office is actually malicious, so much as it is incompetent. They don’t seem to have adequate communication amongst themselves, and no two departments know what each other is doing. If you go anywhere else, take my advice and do that. If you must go to Philhaven, bear in mind what I’ve said.