4 Comments Posted by RN

Preventative Maintenance

Worked at Byberry for 2 weeks as a nurse in 1985. No idea what building. Only recall it was both male and female young adults. The nurse's station was surrounded by chicken wire. The nurse's rarely left the station unless they had to give meds via a half door in the medication room or stand around as security in the cafeteria. It was scary. The patient's were constantly fighting which you had to break up or were restrained with body nets: hence, why I only lasted two weeks. I remember the dorms and the general darkness of the place as a whole. It was a creepy environment. I do recall that the staff ( who had been there a long time) seemed to enjoy tantalizing the patient's from behind the chicken wire at the nurse's station. It was a totally dysfunctional scene which I didn't want to be a part of so I exited ASAP. It wasn't "care" at all. It was something totally warped.

No children at KPPC for many a year before its closure......no pediatric ward

Wrong Ma Specht, Nightingale. Yours is probably her daughter-in-law. I was a nursing student at PPC before Helen and "our" Ma Specht, as well as several of her sons, have since died. Living at PPC never scared me and the school turned out many terrific RNs. Very sad to see the changes-lots of great memories.
Inside of these houses were absolutely beautiful.