2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

There is a type in use now that looks like a hospital bed. The body lays on a tray like the one on the guerney pictured above, but a hollow "mattress" covers the body. You could be in the lift beside this "bed" and never know it contained a deceased patient.

Yeah, it was watered by a leaky roof.

These days it's actually criminal for this to occur. With HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996) you can get a large fine and prison time for this ("if the offense is committed with intent to sell, transfer, or use individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm, be fined not more than $250,000, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both"), although there are lesser fines for just leaving things lying about as they did here.

I don't believe the law is retroactive, however, but it's still a damn shame to see these records exposed like this for all the world to see. Most health care professionals go to (and have always gone to) great lengths to keep client confidentiality, but once you leave the employ of an institution or agency they "own" the client files. This is something the state agency that ran the place or the previous healthcare facility owners should be slapped for.

In my humble opinion. :-)

No, it's actually a shower trolley - a mobile tub that could be moved to patients instead of getting the patient to move. It tilts like so to allow people to roll on and off, I suppose.

I was wrong, they aren't restraints; these look like supports, probably for lifting people in and out of bathtubs and beds.

Mine too. Things were just made better back then.

The economy and scaricity of resources also places a key roll in the lack of buildings like this these days.

It's sad how they just leave the patient records laying around like that.

Why is it the lightbulbs I buy last a week and these are chugging along after 20-ish years?

What the hell is all of the rust from?

Were there any patient files Motts?

Autopsy table?

Why have restraints at a TB hospital?

They dated them because they knew 40 years from them, some curious explorers would wonder why. :)

I would have snagged it.