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Even regular hospital floors have "treatment" rooms. My son was hospitalized for pneumonia when he was 18 months old, and they took him to the treatment room to start an IV. They didn't want me there (saying they didn't want him to associate me with the treatment) but I refused to leave (I didn't want him to think Mommy had abandoned him to strangers). Neither of the two nurses could get the IV line inserted and so they were going to put it in his head. I said "no way, at least not yet" and asked them to call down to the ER and have an ER nurse or EMT come up to the floor to do the procedure. They agreed to this, and the ER nurse got the line in on the first try (I also used the same request when my 80-year-old father was hospitalized and was becoming agitated by a nurse's unsuccessful attempts to start an IV--people who practice emergency medicine seem to have special skills with IVs). If I hadn't insisted on staying with my son, and he had come out of that treatment room with an IV attached to the top of his head, he wouldn't have been the only one needing a treatment!

This made me have to cuddle with my kitty

creepy

That paint scheme and the natural lighting are hard to mistake. I've been other parts of the hostpital but non of the "cool" stuff like the brain-fryer or any of that can be found in that section. Great pics!

This made me think of the bathrooms in my elementary school and kids climbing up on the toilet seat in one stall to look over the partition to catch the person in the next stall "in the act." (maybe we were just a strange bunch of kids--we also thought it was cool to sneak into the opposite sex's bathroom after school so that we could say we had been in there).

As for the lack of doors--that's much more understandable after you've had to crawl under a few doors to free a person who was able to lock the door but lacked the manual dexterity to unlock it.

I've known a number of people with autism who had a particular fascination with pipes (turning valves, removing fittings, putting things inside, etc.). The fascination seemed to increase geometrically if the pipes could also gush forth water. Even better was a pipe or fixture that could gush forth water that could then be kept from going down the drain. :-) Without close supervision of bathrooms, a facility could keep a full-time plumber busy just unclogging toilets and sinks.

In housing for people with developmental disabilities, many of the residents need training in personal hygiene/toileting skills. Other residents will "play" with the contents of the toilet if there is not a staff person to keep them from doing so. Sometimes there are medical reasons for needing to monitor a patient's urination/defecation.

Just like with so many other facets of mental health care, one cannot make judgments just based on an isolated picture. There are usually reasons for things being the way they are. And the reasons are not to torture people, violate their rights, or invade their privacy.

I LOVE this picture, i watched most haunted, and i find it sad, and very devistating that they are going to just pull down all that history for some houses!

I hope they change there mind an re-store it again!!!

Oooohhh...wallpaper!!!

kinda bulky

Didnt ghost hunters visit here?

I'm speechless

alone with my madness.... i sat and imagined how i would feel standing in the middle of this room alone. Pretty amazing..

it would be great if you could find anything out about whats happening to this building soloman92.i did manage to take a few close up piccies of the outside of the hall before biff the security guard and shep the dog made us leave ! heavy scaffolding covering the house makes it look like somethings been done but i dont trust these building firms.if anyone does decide to go for a wander over there watch out for the uncovered manholes on the paths around lakes!

Oh yes, the "poor tortured people who never got a decent life"! Life in the community with so-called "normal" people is not a cakewalk for someone with mental illness or developmental disabilities, either. When I've been eating in a restaurant with some of the people I work with, I've heard insensitive, RUDE comments along the lines of "Why do they bring *that* out in public? We shouldn't have to look at *that* while we're eating. Don't they know there are places for things like *that*?"

I work in a long term care facility for the mentally ill & developmentally disabled adults. I read the linked article and it gave me chills. I too carry a lot of keys in my job. I am not direct care, but I hook my keys on a belt loop on my jeans and they jingle when I walk. I never thought of the effect of that sound. I do know that sometimes, it seems that just our keys and name tags seem to seem to be the only thing that separates staff from residents...

IS THERE GRAVES IN THE BACK OF THIS HOSPITAL????