469 Comments for Harperbury Hospital

Remember the public pools where you didn't even NEED a bathing suit? Now I wouldn't be caught dead in a place like that!!

Oh I get it..
Red for Fire Alarm.
Green for Emergency Door Release.
Yellow for Panic Buttons. :P

Its a converted Fire Alarm call point, these are normally red so it has defo been painted yellow and instead of glass where the button is there has been a blanking plate put in and where the label that says "panic button" is it normally says "FIRE" in black writing. I would say its fairly new at least within the last 10 years defo

Don't most physical therapy departments have pools?

I remember back in the 60s when you could rent a bathing suit from the pool for a quarter if you wanted to swim but had forgotten your own suit. Nothing seemed unusual about that then, but now...let's not even go there!

There are usually ways around the "age appropriate" dogma. For example, puzzles and coloring books for adults can be purchased from companies that focus on products for patients with Alzheimer's (reminiscence therapy) and hobby stores usually have beautiful coloring books intended for adults. Then you just use colored pencils instead of crayons (markers work too but most of our people would end up wearing more color than the paper). For people who have trouble gripping the thin pencils, buy the soft foam adaptive grips (my kids came home from grade school once to tell me they needed "rubbers"--I was only familiar with one kind of "rubbers" and they were NOT something I wanted my seven-year-old to have! It turned out that that was the name the kids had given the adaptive grips) or make your own out of sponges. One thing we usually become pretty good at, because so much of what our people need "is not in the budget this year," is finding ways to transform everyday items into therapy tools. Case managers should not be coming in and taking things away from staff or residents unless they are also providing better alternatives and training.

consider yourself fortunate if this is really the "grossest thing you have ever seen in your life!" You've had a very sheltered life!

my sister used to work at this hospital , its so close to where i live , tomo i will go and drive and have a look if i can, its fasinating

I have actually been in one.... but not exactly like this. ;) In most large animal veterinary hospitals they have these for surgery , especially designed for horses. When horses come out of anesthesia they can do crazy things to hurt themselves, thrash about and the like, so veterinarians do the surgery in these types of rooms with a hydrolic table in the middle that can can be covered up with padding also and the animal cannot hurt himself upon awakening....

I keep thinking of those claw machines at the penny arcades

I so want to press that button

Wow, you can just imagine the doors flying open the children runnning into the corridor then out to the playground

since when do they have pools in hospitals!?

Imma just turn around and get the heck out of here! To creepy!

Wow. Just, Wow.

I just noticed this is a manual one note the handle with the red knob. there was another knob which was tightened, first then The red handle was pushed up and down and the patiend raised. to lower the patiend the the other know was released slowly.