1,244 Comments for Central Islip State Hospital

i've painted many customers dining rooms thatt rediish-orange color! it looks real nice with a cream color on the trim and chair-rail

Why is it that the clown that are intended to be very un-scary have the creepiest effect?

The chairs are a Luther Conover design from the 1950s. They are made of fiberglass. The chairs are probably different colors just because different colors were available. These were manufactured in the whole rainbow of colors as well as black and white to match any decor.

cant wait for it to finally be made into a museum cifd has a rich history and it all needs to be shared with the public

The firehouse is still their. The town of Islip is doing a restoration of it. It's the only standing building from the site.

Who's next

Actually it's still a good building and modern but it has been abandoned? There are so many hospitals in Indonesia which has worse design and still uses until now.

It probably was listing the drugs they typically prescribed as treatment at the facility and drugs of choice the patient may have come in on. The other line would typically cover medications the patient came in on already like insulin, high blood pressure medication, or other medications they are on. I've seen some of these when I worked in detox as an undergrad doing assessments. We used a similar form for the assessment and would ask what drugs the patient had used in the past and what if any drugs they were on right now. They also used a form like this for incident reporting that would be used by the ME when doing a tox analysis so they knew what was prescribed and what should and shouldn't be in a persons system.

Revolution,
Some see it as prison, others home. The point of the windows being encased like that was to protect the patients from themselves. You have to realize before shatterproof glass and such this was the safest way to protect a person from jumping or breaking the windows and using the glass to injure themselves. There was, on some level, a medical reasoning behind it, even if not all the patients placed in facilities like this needed or deserved the treatment they got. Also treatment has come a long way, but without the poor souls that came first some of the treatments we have now would not exist or be as effective as they are now.

DRT (Dead Right There)

At least it isn't DIAL 666...

Now THAT would be creeeeepy.

Yes those seats are most definitely seats from an American full size van, like a Chevy, Dodge, or Ford, and most likely for transportation of patients either around the grounds or like on field/activity trips.

Beautiful building.

EVIL CLOWNS!

i sat in them chars in 1960 to 19 63 be course i burnt a mans barn down in 1960 , I spent 2 years of my life in that place for nothing............., I got out in 1963 So i remember that place very well i remember the superintendents thy ware very nice to me , and did no think i belong their with all the nuts.