314 Comments Posted by claudia

I never expected to find pictures of an industrial site so interesting or moving. This is a fantastic gallery. Thanks for helping me to see the beauty in this building.

I get kind of an art-deco feel from all of the archways. Really beautiful

The hospital that I worked in from 1971-1977 had this type of light. They were for use by the patients. Sometimes we would use them on patients that had decubitus ulcers= Ulcers of the body covering areas of bony prominence. Specifically as applies to bed fast patients. We would roll the patients on their stomachs and take the dressings off and allow the slight heat from the light to dry out the area before we redressed them. In people speak these are bed-sores. Dr's did examine patients with them, but if they really wanted to examine something in detail we took the patient to another room with better lighting or carried better lighting to the patient.

Missing is the track that this type of OR lamp is attached to so it can be repositioned as needed.

Does anybody (besides me) think that the opening on the wall the picture faces, looks like a fireplace? I've been in my share of delivery/operating suites and I can't figure out what it is.
Of course a fireplace would be totally against protocol. But it suggests to me that this room might have had a different function at one time and was converted. Just a thought

I think most hospitals have safes. The one that I worked in had one. You never knew what an ER patient might have with them. Only way to be sure it was protected was the hospital safe.
I would hazard a guess that at the time this hospital operated, most private patient's paid in cash. So the safe was needed between bank runs. Also wonder if the staff was paid in cash?

Stairs wituout handrails are my nightmare. Seems like I just can't keep from creeping to the edge........

Emergency drugs in medical speak refers to drugs needed to treat a cardiac or respiratory arrest. They also contained meds to treat patients who exhibit severe alllergies. These are standard in areas that treat patients of all kinds. Atropine, Narcan, epi, Benadryl, lidocaine are examples of meds that would be in this location.

And so many bars on the windows. what a forboding appearance,
surrender hope all who enter here.

Would love to buy a print of this. The set up suggests so many story lines for day dreaming. Some kind of scary.......

How can they walk away from a building this big. There must have been some part that could be used. I can't get over the waste.
In this day and age it feels like a crime to have walked away from this building.

Some equipment in hospitals are placed on carts for transport to where they are used. When these pieces are returned to Central Sterile the equipment is cleaned as usual. The carts also have to be cleaned. If the side we can't see is a slope then this area could be for hosing down the carts. Would have to know where this area is. Because the carts that deliver food are also cleaned this way.

You asked for a room with a view.......

These are also used in surgery for sponges and other stuff. Of course those are metal and can be autoclaved.
Used to work ER also and we used the disposible ones for dips etc.
Many years ago a young man who had not been provided with a urinal handed me one of these that was full to the brim with urine. I have never figured out how he did that........he was on bedrest and ordered to stay on his back.......? YIKES