Showing posts with label Hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hospital. Show all posts

July 11, 2020

Post No. 3 on DrkCurrent.com ~ Westborough State Hospital

Westborough State Hospital


Westborough State Hospital, originally “Westborough Insane Hospital”, was a historic hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts, which sat on more than 600 acres. The campus area was located between Lyman Street and Chauncy Lake. The hospital was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The hospital was established in 1884 on the grounds of the State Reform School for Boys. The existing buildings were renovated to accommodate the needs of a mental hospital and was opened on December 1, 1886. This was the first homeopathic hospital for the insane established in New England; but such hospitals existed in New York and Michigan.
The pioneering psychiatrist Solomon Carter Fuller spent the majority of his career practicing at the hospital in the early 1900s. While there, he performed his ground-breaking research on the physical changes to the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients.
The hospital was closed in 2010, in anticipation of a new Worcester State Hospital opening in 2012. The ten-bed Deaf Unit, the two Adolescent Units, and the Intensive Residential Treatment programs were closed by June 2010.
On May 9, 2015, a memorial service was held in nearby Pine Grove Cemetery for the more than 500 patients who died at Westborough State Hospital and whose remains were unclaimed and subsequently buried in a potter’s field. The service was part of a larger effort to put names to the graves of the deceased. Despite being on the historic register, the entire hospital complex was demolished during the summer of 2019. A senior living complex is currently being built at the same location as the state hospital was.

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September 18, 2019

Checkmate

The Chess House. 
Above is a postcard of some old cottages that sit on the site of an old TB Sanitarium located in upstate New York. The Sanitarium is now long gone and some of the cottages are now private residence.

Today one of those cottages stands vacant and was auctioned off in June of 2019.
above is a picture of how it sits today. This is a single family home that was built in 1898 and must have been own by an artist by the Ceramic Art left behind. As of now I can not find any other history on this location.

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September 4, 2018

This Old Manor

The property has been known at various times as the Heights, Woodburne, Woodbourne,
The Scott Estate, Little Flower, and Villa St Theresa.

The land on which the mansion stands was originally the a family farm which ran all the way
to the Creek and there are indications that the Great Minquas Path, a fur
trading route between the Susquahannock region and the Dutch fur trading posts, passed through the 
property.

It is said there were encampments on the "Heights of Darby" during the British occupation of 
Philadelphia (1777-1778)

Before the Civil War, the property was owned by George McHenry, President of the
Philadelphia Board of Trade, and a Southern sympathiser who went to England and arranged for 
shipments to go through the Union blockade. The land was sold at Sheriff's sale in April 1862
and the property then came under the ownership of Thomas A. Scott who served in
Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of War for Transportation and later as
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad..

His son, Edgar Scott, commissioned noted architect Horace Trumbauer to build the present mansion
in 1906 with the possible participation of Julian Abele.

Both Edgar Scott Senior and Edgar Scott Junior served with the Norton-Harjes American Volunteer 
Motorized Ambulance Service during the First World War.  Edgar Scott Senior died in France on 
October 20, 1918, 22 days before the Armistice. Edgar Junior married Helen Hope Montgomery
who had been the inspiration for Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story."

The property was purchased by the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer in the 1930's. It is believed the 
postcard dates to the time the property was used as an orphanage. It later was a nursing home
and closed in 2005

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August 25, 2018

Scrabble Manor


Tales of Horror & Neglect.
One cold morning in February, This Patient walked away from the Scrabble Manor Adult Home, headed north. She stumbled into the woods about a mile away.
She fell repeatedly. She walked in circles. She curled up under a pine tree.
And that’s where police found her frozen body two days later, her socks next to her body, no shoes on her feet. A medical examiner ruled that she died of hypothermia.
She was 54 years old and suffered from severe schizophrenia. She had lived in Scrabble Manor because she needed help with daily activities and self-care that an adult home is supposed to provide.
Her death, while an extreme, underscores the deplorable conditions at some of the Hudson Valley’s worst adult homes. In too many of these homes, residents are routinely subjected to neglect, filth and indifference.
Inspections at 22 licensed adult homes in Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties from 2001-07 turned up 846 violations deemed to directly affect the safety or well-being of residents - with two-thirds of those citations recorded at the seven adult homes operated in Sullivan County.
A year after This Patient disappeared, another Scrabble Manor resident, walked away from the home.
She was 78yo and had dementia and heart disease. State police believe she suffered a fatal heart arrhythmia while walking early on Feb. 23.
They believe she was trying to crawl back to Scrabble Manor when she collapsed on a neighbor’s front lawn and died.
The adult home was supposed to do hourly bed checks, but the Manor owner said at the time that an employee had failed to do so.
No one noticed She was missing.
Adult home inspection reports and history documented by state agencies make it clear: Residents of some Hudson Valley adult homes are at a significant risk of illness, injury or even death due to carelessness or negligence on the part of the homes’ operators and staff.
Despite reforms over the past few years, state oversight has been ineffective in regulating these homes, which house a vulnerable population of the elderly, infirm and mentally ill. And anyone can end up in an adult home. All it takes is a medical crisis that renders someone unable to live on his or her own.
State documents paint a disturbing picture of homes where residents are left to sit in soiled clothing, are subjected to physically or verbally abusive staffers and repeated instances of mismanaged medications.
The state Department of Health cited the Scrabble Manor Adult Home for 119 deficiencies from 2001-07. One citation in 2001 noted that none of the home’s five communal bathrooms had any kind of locks.
Adult homes are supposed to offer housing and basic services to five or more people in a communal-style setting. Employees help residents as needed with day-to-day living, such as dressing, hygiene, housekeeping, meals and taking medications.
Adult homes have existed in various forms for a century. Over the past 30 years, however, as the state has closed psychiatric hospitals, more people with severe and persistent mental illness have moved into these places.
A lack of proper training and supports make adult homes a poor fit for people with severe mental illness.
More than 11,000 people with severe mental illness - or just over one-third of the state’s adult home population - live in 488 licensed facilities. The 2008-09 budget includes $20 million to allow three state agencies to buy adult homes to convert to mental health or other housing.
Adult homes (also called “adult care facilities”) differ from nursing homes in that nursing homes provide 24-hour nursing care, diagnostic services, pharmacy, physical therapy and social services. A resident must qualify medically for nursing home admission.
To qualify for an adult home, residents must be unable to live independently for medical or psychiatric reasons. Theoretically, adult homes provide a clean, safe environment and conscientious care. How well those services are provided depends on the operator.


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July 1, 2018

This old mansion


This old mansion.
In its prime it was a cutting edge nursing home that had all of the amenities any aging person could want. 
It was a long-term care facility that offered around the clock nursing care for individuals with chronic illness or injury who are unable to care for themselves in an independent manner. This nursing homes housed those that where elderly and unable to continue caring for themselves, as well as individuals of all ages who have chronic health concerns or permanent physical or mental disabilities that prevent them from being able to care for themselves. 
After Years of neglect the building fell into disrepair and the occupants were moved into a newer building up the hill from the old mansion. Here is how it sits today. 


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