Ellington Behavioral Health

This company is not professional. Called me two hours before my appointment and cancelled because they don't take my insurance. Also one of the doctors has been sued multiple times. On top of that the lady on the phone got snappy with me when I asked why it took this long to tell me this. I booked this appointment a month ago. I don't know how the doctors are but no longer intend to find out. Sounds like this place is falling apart.

This company is very unprofessional. They refused to see my daughter because she missed a few appointments. She is going to their clinic for anxiety issues, getting to appointments is part of her issue. They didn’t notify her by phone or mail that they were no longer going to see her as a patient which is illegal!!

An Ellington psychiatrist who has already been fined $60,000 by state and federal officials for mishandling a drug called Suboxone was reprimanded Tuesday for the same violations by the state Medical Examining Board.nnState and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration records show that Dr. Erum Shahab had violated regulations in 2012 relating to the storage, documentation and dispensing of the drug, which is prescribed to heroin and prescription pill addicts because it suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cravings.nnIn October 2012, Shahab agreed to pay a $40,000 to the DEA, which said in a settlement agreement that she failed to properly document and maintain purchasing and dispensing records for Suboxone. The DEA also said she failed to conduct a biennial inventory of controlled substances and unlawfully possessed Suboxone outside of the scope of her license to dispense the drug.nnA separate agreement Shahab reached in December 2012 with the state Department of Consumer Protection shows that Connecticut fined her $20,000 and placed her registration to prescribe controlled substances on probation for two years. DEA and the consumer protection department referred their case against Shahab to the state Department of Public Health in 2012.nnDPH Staff Attorney David Tilles said these were some of the largest fines he has seen imposed by DEA and consumer protection in the more than 15 years he has been with the state agency. He said the manufacturer of Suboxone used to provide the drug directly to doctors such as Shahab, and investigators found that she did not adequately control her inventory of the drug.nn“It was really sloppy,’’ he told the board.