I am incredibly grateful for the time I spent in the Athlete Track at ED Care Denver. When I entered the program, I was trying to compete while unprepared and unmotivated. ED Care not only gave me the tools to relearn how to properly fuel myself for athletics (and life in general), but they also helped me find joy again in the sport I’d dedicated my life to. I haven’t felt as fulfilled, strong, and energized as I do now in all my years as an athlete, and I owe that to my time in the Athlete Track.

This place and these people saved my life time and time again, I cant recommend it enough. Everyone is so kind and talented, providing support and resources like I could never imagine. Treatment is triggering, raw, emotional, and through all that I felt safe here 💓

You have to do everything their way or else youll get punished, even though they say its an empowerment program. edit: of course im not going to post under my name and risk backlash...... and so much for not disclosing whether or not someones a patient..... just to let people know i wasnt even talking about safety, im talking about stuff like cancelling groups for the entire day and forcing us to sit around doing nothing because we werent satisfied w how the groups were being ran. oh and youll here all about the staffs dating lives and personal problems.......

Endlessly grateful for this program! Great program- it works if you put the work in. The staff is also really excellent at their jobs. Special thanks to Christine, Shane and dr. Sadusky!

Nope, programs dietitian and program within itself is inherently disordered. I went to group with another gal and she was in recovery from anorexia. The dietitian told her to have a shake as an extra snack if she was hungry instead of allowing her what she wanted. The stigma against those who are in larger bodies is prevalent in this program and I feel its designed for those who arent people of color. Very rarely did I see any eating recovery information on people of color in my work book. Additionally, we had a family group therapist who triggered the entire group and even upset the entire group of support that was there as well. Do not spend your money here, go elsewhere that is HAES focused and doesnt make you measure things out for nutrition group. Additionally they combine strictly binge eating patients with anorexia patients and asked us to give advice to someone with a binge eating disorder about reducing cravings, how is that beneficial to those struggling from anorexia to give advice to someone of binge eating disorder? Isnt that the nutritionists (shanes) job of addressing reducing binge cravings and not giving it over to anorexia patients who may provide potentially triggering information?

While the care provided by the healthcare professionals on staff was adequate, the administrative staff was grossly unprofessional and I cannot recommend EDCare to anyone considering eating disorder treatment.

They treat every patient as if they’re underweight and anorexic. If you are one of the 93% of people with an ED that isn’t anorexia, don’t expect to be helped. I spent 4 months in treatment here and most of my experience was negative. My dietician, Lainey, lied to me and denied it when I confronted her about it. My treatment team was untrustworthy, I’m now questioning a lot of what they told me. If you have any ED that isn’t anorexia, they hardly address it groups. 90% of groups are catered to anorexia only. The therapy groups in PHP often start a half hour late or ends an hour early, on Sundays we did nothing, there was no point in even coming in. Meanwhile insurance is paying $1800 a day for each patient in PHP. The art therapist, Becca, doesn’t organize anything for patients, she just tells you to do whatever you want while she puts zero effort in and gives patients a rude attitude when they do something she disagrees with. While I was there a blizzard came into Denver and treatment should have been cancelled so patients didn’t have to drive in dangerous conditions, but it wasn’t. The family groups on Saturdays weren’t helpful for my family at all because the therapists in charge of the groups didn’t relate their subjects back to eating disorders. Patients were allowed to say horrible, triggering things in groups and continue going to said groups. I became close with some other patients, it was nice making meaningful friendships, my only positive thing to say about the whole experience. If you actually want help from an eating disorder center, don’t go here. ED Care leaves much to be desired and was a disappointing experience overall. Besides the friends I made, I wish I had never gone.

I am so endlessly grateful for the care I received at EDCare. Unlike many other treatment centers, EDCare treats every eating disorder equally and gets to the root of the illness rather than focusing solely on behaviors. Being an empowerment based program, it is ideal and necessary for those who have been in treatment multiple times with little success. The amazing care given at EDCare was apparent to me at the very beginning of a 3+ month insurance battle, of trying to get me the treatment I desperately needed. Sarah was super helpful in guiding me through the admission process and it spoke volumes that the clinical team was willing to fight and advocate so hard for someone who wasn’t even their patient. They battled with insurance for over 3 months before I was finally able to get the care I needed. All of the staff were incredibly compassionate & caring, and my primary 100% saved my life. EDCare offers groups on a wide range of social justice issues including weight stigma, which was such a game changer for me. EDCare won’t do the work for you. The staff are there to guide you and help you in your recovery, but ultimately they can’t make the changes for you. If you’re not ready to put in the work for your recovery, this is not the treatment center for you. Their modality aims to guide you through the painful parts of treatment, while also ensuring that the patient is taking accountability for their recovery. Being in a larger body & struggling with all of the behaviors at different times, many traditional eating disorder treatment centers have been unable to treat me, or have done so unethically, by focusing on suppressing my weight rather than interrupting behaviors. At other facilities, I was being essentially prescribed an eating disorder which was incredibly damaging. EDCare practices through a lens of health at every size and body diversity, making treatment a welcoming place for people of ALL bodies, not just the “stereotypical eating disorder” bodies. They have specialized tracks including trauma and substance abuse which were incredibly helpful for me & many of the people I went through treatment. They also are 100% gender affirming which is absolutely crucial for a place to be safe for everybody. They have supportive housing which is a great start to interrupt behaviors before implementing those skills at home. As someone who had been in and out of treatment for 5+ years with no more than a month here and there at home at a time, I can attest that EDCare is life saving. I have been out of treatment since leaving EDCare in 2018, and should myself or anyone I know ever need treatment for their eating disorder, I will recommend EDCare in a heartbeat. Special shoutout to Dr. Goffredi, Dr. Batson, Jess (milieu), Rachel F, Dr. Rollin, Shane, and of course Dr. Pryor. They all changed my life for the better!!

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see the beautiful facilities at 950 Cherry Street, and meet some of the amazing professionals there. I have to say not only was I impressed with the staffs professionalism and breadth of knowledge, but the environment was exceptionally supportive, comforting and uplifting. Showcasing attractive conference and private areas surrounded by grand views, a fully-equipped art room and kitchen, EDC stood apart in my mind from other facilities in and out of the area.

I went into the center being very skeptical and unsure if they could really help me. Four weeks later I feel like I came out a very different person. Every single person treated me with respect and compassion and I knew right away that they really cared. Every aspect of your life is included in the recovery process. I have never worked so hard at anything in my life, but because of their program, I feel for the first time in a very long time that I have a chance for a happy and productive life. I will never be able to thank them enough. I feel they saved my life.

This place is all about satisfying insurance requirements rather than actually helping their patients. As soon as the insurance was up, I was kicked out. I begged them and asked for more help but they were uncaring and told me I could no longer be a part of the program. Since I left there, my eating disorder is worse than it was before I entered their facility.

I found that coming here for me was good for a tune up, great in helping me prevent a relapse. As I am now in outpatient and have been for many years, I find that they have an outstanding outpatient team. Having a good outpatient care is critical to at least my recovery, and they should be proud of who works with outpatient. #ShaneBates best dietitian.

The milieu therapist, dietitians, primaries, and even kitchen staff are all around beautiful human beings. I had the wonderful opportunity to get treatment at EDCare, and while it was scary, frustrating and emotionally exhausting; I had an all around positive experience in treatment. ❤️❤️❤️

I would not recommend this place to anyone who wants recovery. I went into ED Care that after 40 years of struggling with anorexia and BDD that I had found some hope. Every time I asked about my treatment plan, the answer was that is your eating disorder talking. The funny thing was I had been at a very healthy BMI for over six years and supposedly I was on a maintenance eating plan for the 3 months I was there. After I got back home I was up five pounds but continued to listen to them because the doctors said it would even out. Now I am up 5 more and now I am considered over weight and none of my clothes fit. I feel I have lost all hope and all trust in any off the doctors affiliated with them. I feel worse about my body and myself then I have in years and now I will not go in public for anything. Not even a doctors appointment. I feel like not living. That is what ED Care did for me.

Well, looks like Im somewhat in the minority here, but I personally was not terribly impressed by EDCare. Yes, the facility is very pretty and the staff are very nice, but overall the set-up did not (in my opinion) effectively address the issues of the population they were attempting to treat.Basically, a true empowerment-based program needs TWO components, of which EDCare only had the first: an open, non-restrictive setting that allowed clients great freedom to come and go as they pleased. The second component which EDCare was missing, however, was holding their adult clients accountable for the behaviors they chose to have within that open setting. EDCare comprises only two floors in a 17-ish story office building. Clients had full freedom to skip groups, charge up and down the MANY flights of stairs to exercise, go to any of the other floor bathrooms to purge, go across the street to convenience stores to buy food and laxatives and cigarettes, and even to dramatically run away from either the program itself or the residential house. This, unfortunately, comprised the majority of the client behavior that occurred while my sister was in treatment. It is obviously possible that she was just there with an unusually dramatic and immature group of people, so I will leave that concession open. But for the two months she was there, it seemed like the vast majority of patients at EDCare were simply there to take advantage of the open structure to act out and prove how sick they were, rather than to actually do the work of getting better. And while some acting out may be expected in a treatment center, it is NOT appropriate for a facility to respond to full-grown adult women as though they are children and reinforce them for behaving this way. Staff would chase down the clients who ran away or disappeared to other floors (which obviously took people away from the group that WAS following the rules) and just basically responded to the clients in a way that sent a strong message that remaining sick would get them more attention than trying to get better.Because my family member is a natural rule-follower, and because the behavior expectation bar was set so laughably low by the other patients, she simply sailed through the program amidst glowing accolades....and within a couple weeks of discharge was right back where she started. Basically, the staff spent so much time and energy catering to the clients who were determined to act like manipulative pre-teens that they had very little time left to go into the deeper, more complex issues needed to help the people who GENUINELY wanted to get better. Overall, my experience of this program was that the general ambience and culture was one of coddling/babying ADULT patients in their histrionic attention-seeking, rather than expecting them to adhere to even basic standards appropriate for their age. It is necessary to chase after adolescents and children with eating disorders; in my opinion it is HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE to take this same approach with adults. Or if that approach must be taken, then the facility should give up calling themselves empowerment-based and just lock the unit so they can dial down the level of mischief the patients can get up to. Basically, I was just very disheartened, both by the experience my sister had and by the very obvious observation that from a behavioral intervention perspective, this facility reinforces and encourages the very behaviors it claims to treat. Hence why I would not recommend EDCare to individuals who genuinely want to get better and to be surrounded by a SUPPORTIVE staff and peer group who are working toward that as well. The primary peer-group here seemed to be comprised of those competing with each other to prove who was the sickest, and the recovery-oriented patients were definitely the exception rather than the rule unfortunately.

Recovery was NEVER a word in my vocabulary, because I never thought it was possible. I never thought Id be able to live my life behavior free, or ever feel like I belonged or deserved anything. That all changed these past two years. - Maddy

This place is awful. They dont care about their patients and will terminate you immediately if you dont seek the exact level of care they recommend. Did not have 1 positive encounter with any of the staff. That includes: Dana McDowell, Sarah Mihollan, and Dr. Pryor.

This Center has truly made a difference in my life. The staff are amazing. I have continued to use the Centers services for years on my path of recovery and have met so many others through the center who have learned how to manage their recovery in healthy ways. If you are looking for a facility that will truly make a difference, the EDCD is wonderful.

Very bad at responding. Could not get me in for 12 days for a in-person assesment because the only consoler who took my insruacne was too busy. Asked them to put me with someone else and get me in sooner, but they said no. If someone needs help, they need help... Disturbed over the way this place handles new patients.

This is by FAR the BEST organization in the Western USA!!! I have experience with MOST of the name facilities in the West, and none come even close to the staff and facilities of Denver EDC!!! Their knowledgeable and compassionate staff, easy logistics, outstanding facilities, effective communication, and can-do culture outshine all others! Their willingness to go to the extreme to help their girls is a FACT! In every area, they excel! I will never be able to thank them for their outstanding effort to save my daughter! Her case was extremely unique, and no other facility could get it and solve her medical quandary. Dr. Christensen went beyond all of the normal processes / efforts to crack the case and save her life! Dana and Dr. Dale joined the team and provided incredible service with compassion and true concern. Dana, what a gem, went far beyond any normal effort and called me every day while we endured a horrible family crisis! After enduring five years of incompetent and dysfunctional organizations elsewhere, I was shocked at the AMAZING team at Denver EDC! Thank you, Denver EDC!!!

They dont care about you unless youre easy to fix

EDCD saved my Life. I feel now at the age of 33 I am now finally living not just surviving. The staff and the team of doc. are all amazing!!!! During this rough time of 2 1/2 months of treatment I have found life long friends, that get me and are a phone call away.The great thing about EDCD is they dont just treat you, they work with your family and friends as well. If you are looking for an Eating disorder Center that works EDCD is the place!!!

The athletic program at EDCD made such an impact on my recovery. It taught me the art of being mindful. I learned to slow down for once, take in my surroundings, and pay attention to my body’s signals. I was able to be vulnerable about my fears, process my emotions, and grieve the identity that no longer defined me. This would never have been possible without EDCD’s athletic program, and for that I will always be thankful.

The Eating Disorder Center of Denver is absolutely the BEST PLACE to handle your ED needs. I was a male, and was lost on where to go for treatment, and I can guarantee you as a male I felt 100% comfortable the entire time. I was very nervous walking into a facility for the first time, and especially nervous being one of the only males in the whole clinic. Dr. Tamara Pryor and the EDCD staff provided a platform where I felt 100% comfortable and at home during my entire stay. I can not express in enough words, how the EDCD changed my life, and I would not be writing this review today without the help of everyone at EDCD. I highly recommend you go to EDCD for any needs with an eating disorder. All you males out there, do not shy away from getting the help you deserve!Sincerely,Chad Tinterow