478 Comments for High Hills Developmental Center

Waverly Hills Sanatorium has swung into full renovation; it's a beautiful building: http://en.wikipedia.or...rly_Hills_Sanatorium

now i have a better understanding of how patient abuse became so easy in these places being self sufficient kept locals away no one to blow the whistle so to speak on the treatment of patients

Let us not forget that this was a tuberculosis sanitarium and not a mental hospital when it was built. I have never heard of patient abuse being common in TB hospitals. Or could it be that this disease has become so uncommon that some folks don't know what TB is? Its a highly contagious bacterial disease that primarily attacks the lungs but can settle in bones and in other organs and systems. These hospitals weren't located in remote areas so sadistic people could torture the patients. They were located remotely to help keep the disease from spreading in the days before antibiotics.

Lynne, I read somewhere that the reason for having housing on site was also that the disease was so highly contagious that it was not uncommon for the staff to contract the disease and become patients themselves. Keeping all staff on grounds was just another way to help keep the epidemic in check.

I used to live and work on the grounds of an abandoned TB hospital. My boss at the time leased some of the buildings. That hospital included, at the time, nearly every building that had every been built on site, including stately houses for the doctors, dormitories for the nurses and orderlies, hospital buildings from the WWi era (cottages), medical buildings from the 30's or 40's and from the 60's, power plant, a dairy barn, pig barns and housing for the maintenence workers and farm workers. It has since been turned into a life care center, but I haven't seen it in nearly 20 years.

There is a really cool website on an abandoned sanitarium in Louisville. If I knew how to import links, I'd post it. Unfortunately I'm nearly computer illiterate. I believe the hospital is called Waverly, if anyone wants to look for it.

looks new but id never use it

Wow, stunning!

Yeah...I could go for a nice hot soak in that right about now!

kinda looks like one of those things at the nail salon for feet...lol i know its not but it does.

ha it looks like the fire hose has some water in it!!

Almost looks like the one from House on Haunted Hill. (If only 'The Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane' was reality *tear* )

Articulus Infernum.... I think thats it..

Thats deff a portable suction machine..not a big deal its standard equiptment

Ya thats deff. an operating table..and it looks like its not that old

Simply speechless

Agnosticism (possibly spelled wrong) is very misunderstood, a true agnostic does not believe nor disbelieve anything and that includes god, far off placed and the past and future. in an infinite universe, anything is possible.

It certainly doesn't take long for that paint to come off the walls does it?

Nah not today, just thought I'd remind you that there are much more hideous machines used in hospitals everyday.