Abandoned Hospital in Waukegan Illinois With The Power Still On
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2023
- This abandoned hospital that still had the power on was located in Waukegan, Illinois; a large city approximately 40 miles north of Chicago. The hospital, which was originally built as Saint Therese Hospital, has an interesting history as it began as the dream idea of a local chapter of the Missionary Sisters - Servants of the Holy Spirit. The small group of missionary sisters came together and organized the first hospital in the Waukegan area dedicated to providing comprehensive care for vulnerable, low-income populations.
After Saint Therese Hospital opened it’s doors in 1929, it exceeded the standards and was an immediate success, especially as the hospital also introduced a number of “firsts” in the Waukegan area, including the establishment of intensive care, inpatient psychiatric care, skilled nursing, comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation, as well as a department for social workers to help with the homeless and chemically dependent.
Beyond providing direct medical care, Saint Therese Hospital committed itself to helping patients improve the circumstances that contribute to health and overall well being. In keeping true to the founding Missionary Sisters and its Catholic roots, the hospital offered intensive supports for pregnant single women, including housing and employment assistance - another first of its kind.
By 1985, the hospital campus had expanded to include several new buildings and plans, so to more accurately reflect the spread of these services and programs, the hospital changed its name to Saint Therese Medical Center.
At some point in the 2000’s, Saint Therese Medical Center merged with another local hospital and it again changed names to became Vista Medical Center. This merge and subsequent name change sparked some controversy within the local community, especially as many residents wanted the hospital to stay true to its original cause set forth by the Missionary Sisters and the Catholic Church. The hospital ended up in several lawsuits during this time period, scarring its once reputable name.
In 2018, medical company US HealthVest announced the acquisition of the Vista Medical Center and once again renamed it to Lake Behavioral Hospital. US HealthVest transformed some of the former medical buildings on the hospital campus into a new 146-bed psychiatric hospital that now offers a full continuum of care to psychiatric patients of all ages.
This state of the art psychiatric hospital opened as a direct response to the urgent need for mental health care and services within the United States.By 2020, the large majority of the former Saint Therese Hospital was permanently closed and left abandoned.
In 2023, despite Lake Behavioral Psych Hospital still operating on the campus, the former Saint Therese Hospital was demolished. It will be interesting to see what eventually rises the grounds of the old hospital. And that is going to bring us to the end of the abandoned Saint Therese Hospital video. We had a blast exploring this massive place in the middle of a cold winter blizzard, so hopefully you all enjoyed watching it! For more photos from the hospital and our other locations, check out our website at abandonedcentral.com And y’all know the deal, please subscribe to Abandoned Central on RUclips so that you don’t miss any of the latest videos. And one more important thing, if you want to help support us in creating these videos, please consider donating by clicking the “super thanks” link next to the download icon. Even if it’s just a dollar, we greatly appreciate it. Thank you everyone for all the support! 
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As a retired nurse seeing all that medical equipment sitting there to rot is disgusting. That equipment could be cleaned and updated. Especially the anesthesia machine’s, monitors and baby warmers. Remember Covid when they needed ventilators and monitors. Whom ever owns it now should be sued and exposed for letting all of that expensive sit. Trust me there are places that could use it old or not. The newest and best equipment doesn’t always work that way. This is truly heartbreaking to see. Thank for sharing.
Whoever owns it needs to be contacted, this is deliberate waste! Contact the Chicago television stations to come and take a look at this. Perhaps that would assist in putting these items to good use somewhere else.
Thank you for working in healthcare
fully agree, you know as well as I being a nurse the amount of money thats left there, seeing the baby warmers and associated kit just left there its just plain wrong. one poster said the stuff is out fated and obsolete, may be so but if you gather the many bits of kit together im sure a group or charity could break down some to get working units, only a nurse who needs kit to ensure their patients safe will feel the heartbreak seeing this. EDIT- they have more portable I.V.poles in one room than I have for my ER. HEARTBREAKING
Even if they tear it down and recycle it would be better than leaving it to rust😊
As a nurse this breaks my heart with all this waste
I was a psych patient in this hospital twice. They actually showed the day room where we hung out. It was a good hospital.
Thanks for watching our video Robert.
Those anesthesia machines in the beginning of the video were the venerable Narkomed 2B's, and are STILL being used in some surgery centers and offices. Provided parts are available, they could absolutely be repurposed for lower acuity surgical care as well as mission trips. With proper maintenance they were virtually bulletproof.
Those IV poles & small metal tray tables look pretty good too.
the halothane vaporizers were interesting...no one uses that anymore
They would not do that. They will just buy new and charge patients 20x what they should. Nothing but crooks.
No they can't
@@mattdaniel9420why not? Explain your opinion
My father's life was saved there back in 2004. ❤❤❤
Thats awesome to hear! Thank you for watching our video.
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My mom was born in that hospital and worked there for 40 years. She was luckily kept on staff when it turned into Vista and still works there
Wow 40 years is a long time. Thanks for watching our video.
So sad to see all that equipment just rotting away
I almost feel desperate to understand how I'm looking at an abandoned, broken, and torn up building that you say your mom still works in.
If by 'still works there' you mean, _still haunts those hallways..._
I live in the area so I can help. There were two Vista hospitals close to each other. This one and then Vista East, the latter of which is still going strong. When this abandon one was shut down, some employees transferred to the other hospital. I assume that’s what his mom did. @@susan9675
So, some things missed:
Basement level subway from hospital to steam plant has/had a really creepy incinerator.
Telecom room in the basement has/had a functioning phone system built in 1971! We turned it off in 2020. (Meridan 1/CS1000 for you telecom folk)
The Roof!
6th floor has/had an Archive room with artifacts dating back to 1930.
Old Nursing School side of building (original St. Therese hospital building) had a lot more deterioration but it had a theater and more old artifacts
The building wide central cooling system dumped 200,000gallons of refridgerant into the atmosphere in 2017ish.
Morgue was last used in 1990
1st and 3rd floor was the last funcitonal unit before USHV moved to the new building on campus, hence the better conditions.
Last patient seen in the ICU/PACU was in July of 2005
A large multiacre park was part of the hospital campus for patients and family to stroll/workout.
We found scandalous love notes in the basement locker room. Lady is likely 70+ years old. 45 at the time of writing.
Overall, fantastically built hospital. Deep history. They don't make stairs like they used to.
Thanks for doing this documentary and immortalizing St. Therese!
There's a surprising number of meridian switches still in operation. If it ain't broke... (and nortel has been around for eons)
Wow that much refrigerant was released into the air?!
Well, this is Waukegan. Johnson Motors (OMC) dumped tons of PCBs in the lake, Johns Manville had an asbestos plant and dumped asbestos in an open field that became a big mound that was not contained in any way,, there was a coke plant that I think is now a hazardous waste site as well as a tannery that was an environmental disaster and probably others that I am forgetting now. So releasing the refrigerant does not surprise me.
Damn bro u know ur stuff, I was born here. I wanna go in there and look around and have u as my tour guide lol.
I grew up in Waukegan. You’re saying there was an underground subway from St Therese that went to the plant down by the lake?
I spent more than a month in total here between January and March of 2000 due to the initial trauma and in-patient Physical Therapy (6th floor of the main building) from an auto accident. Seeing this is not only breaking my heart, but bringing back a lot of memories of those events.
Wow, those abandoned anesthesia machines from North American Draeger can definitely be repurposed. What the heck is wrong with the old owners? So much equipment just left behind. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for watching. I'd image a lot of this stuff could of been repurposed in some way. Sad to see it all get trashed. Thanks for watching.
Did ya hear BRIBENOMICS left 50 $$$ billion of our money in military equipment in Afghanistan after he fuc* ed that up too. I'm sure he's getting a kickback!!!
I've worked in healthcare for many years, so I know hospitals usually replace equipment every five to ten years. Much of this equipment is approaching thirty years old and cant be used again, in the US and Canada at least. Those large blue devices in the first room you went into are anesthesia machines for OR's. Those are at least thirty years old. You are right though, hospitals and clinics in certain countries would kill to get this outdated equipment.
Narkomed 2B are still in service all over the place.
It's really sad that the equipment has been wasted . It's equally sad that the space has been wasted! It seems a whole internal system could be created out of a hospital to rehabilitate people suffering from mental illness, addiction (especially our veterans!)
This hospital actually had 2 psychiatric wings, one for juveniles (my godmother was a nurse there for many years) and another for adults.
Could be used for the homeless or those people that biden is letting in our country and then give the homeless a new place
@Zeevuhl tell us how you really feel.. lmao.
or the illegal in chicago
It’s Illinois. What do you expect?
The NICU incubators, ventilators, iv poles, and x-ray film would be incredibly useful in 3rd world countries such as the DRC. I've done the medical mission trips as a physician and can attest to this.
Its really sad its not sent over to 3rd world countries. I know it would cost us a ton of time, money and effort and thats probably the main reason why it doesn't get done.
@@abandonedcentral it's all tax deductible/write off: the cost of the equipment, labor to pack it, shipping costs, etc.
Also, there are airlines & companies like FedEx that will ship it for free.
There's no excuses, just laziness.
@@VintageRed411 Is there an organization that is responsible for doing this? I've explored abandoned hospitals for the past 8 years and have done hundreds of hours of research around these locations. I've never came across one thats been cleaned out and donated over seas. They hold USA only auctions for the newer equipment thats still usable but thats all I've seen done. This building was recently demolished and everything inside was trashed. I'd be very surprised if there was a legit organization responsible for cleaning out these hospitals because this continues to be an ongoing issue.
Third-world countries are 3rd world for a reason. They have lying, stealing, corrupt governments and rouge politicians whose only aim is to increase their personal wealth by doing what they are brilliantly qualified to do - stand in front of TV cameras with puppy-dog eyes crying poverty and pleading for world aid so they can jamb it even deeper into their own pockets. They don't deserve a single drop of charity.
Free handouts gotta end at some point. They’re just like the ones we have over here- lazy and violent
I hate greed.
Greed made way for all of this obscene waste. The building. The massive amount of equipment. The hospital supplies.
You nailed it when you said "This is insane". It is.
Greed is what made that equipment in the first place. without it, you have nothing to be hateful about
@@mariaorrego7986 Incorrect. The entire concept of hospitals was not a result of market forces. It was Christian charity as envisioned by the Catholic Church. You can have profit motive without greed. And you can have healthcare with the correct motivation. Unfortunately you have only been taught one model. Capitalism + Christianity is the better way.
@@mariaorrego7986 Labor made that equipment, not greed - we would still have medical tools without greed, all it takes is production and a plan. To say that greed is positive in any way is the sign of a sociopath or psychopath. Capitalism is a disease that creates unnecessary waste like this when equipment can still be used, since everything must generate a profit.
@@p.doetsch6209Unfortunately, greed is inherent to capitalism - the system promotes and rewards the worst aspects of human behavior. We don't need a profit motive to produce, because that promotes the very selfishness that creates the greed we see in society. Greed is nothing more than an addiction to profit, and having a society built on the profit motive will only worsen the greed in society over time until it consumes every aspect of life - like what we're experiencing now.
@@Moosemoose1 That is 100% not true because profit is not in any way synonymous with greed. Profit is an economic indicator not a moral one. Most people make that mistake and combine them. However, you are onto something. There is certainly greed and it is a corrupting influence. It's just not due to capitalism. It's due to the human heart which does not seek first the kingdom of heaven.
Those "better rooms" are called hybrid rooms, usually used for vascular surgery. You use the c-arm, which is that big c looking thing, to take continuous xrays of the vessels as you pass wires, balloons, catheters, stents, etc etc, into vessels through tiny puncture sites like the femoral artery near the groin. The screens up top show the continuous xrays from the arm, which can be moved around with those controls attached to the bed. Very crazy seeing all this just rotting away!
This building is in the process of being demolished and appears to be only partially intact. I was born in this hospital so it is kind of sad to see. I just noticed that a portion of one of the buildings was knocked down when I drove by a few days ago. I didnt even know it had closed in 2020 until I looked up the history.
Thanks fir update. We sold our property in 80s. I still miss it. .
@@deborahcallicotte6284oh wow. I would love to see some old photos of the interior throughout history. I may have to go to the library for that. I can't seem to find anything online.
I am from Waukegan my grandma worked there in the 60’s, my neighbor was a E.R. nurse at Vista 1969 to 2000’s, then was asked to come work there. Sad to see it in that sad state. It is being demolished right now, it should be completed by summer. No one will be able to explore it again.
Having worked in hospitals for 50 years let me remind you
Planned obsolescence is a real thing in healthcare. Often when a model of something, like a ventilator is discontinued, they also stop manufacturing the parts. So no, it may not be possible to refurbish this equipment.
Planned obsolescence is a thing in every industry. I’ve been a mechanic for 25 years and it’s getting to the point that you will not be able to drive a car for more than 10 years or so. Parts won’t be available and you’ll be forced to buy new. It’s ridiculous.
This is what happens when for-profit hospital corporations essentially raid community hospitals. They not only lay waste to what had been a functioning medical facility, but also the community that had been served. The other hospital in Waukegan, Victory Memorial Hospital was also bought by Vista Corporation, which may be why St. Therese was sold off and eventually left to rot. Condell Hospital in Libertyville, another formerly non-profit, longstanding community hospital which is about 15 miles away, was acquired by Advocate Corporation in the 2000's. Lake Forest Hospital, South of Waukegan, is now part of the Northwestern University Medicine system.
St. Therese was an important trauma center in the area. . Vista has not invested in Victory to make it a trauma center (St Therese WAS a trauma center when acquired by Vista), so Waukegan suffered the net loss of one trauma center when Vista bought its two hospitals. Lake Forest (Northwestern) is a Level 2 trauma center. Advocate Condell Hospital is now the only Level 1 trauma center in Lake County, though the hospital itself is a general med-surg hospital. Patients recently rank it as an average 3 stars.
St. Therese was once the crown jewel of Lake County hospitals. It's reputation suffered over the years as its financial situation declined, but how it was left to decay by its corporate raiders is heartbreaking.
Those in Lake County who find themselves in need of specialty medical care often choose to go to Chicago for that care.
Good points you have. The FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRY is disgusting. GREED.
People wonder why health insurance costs so much. Then when a claim happens, the insurance does not pay their fair part or all of it. Greed at every level. The trick in life, eat clean, exercise, and avoid the nasty medical industry at all costs. You can live longer and healthier too. By the way, this building, like most medical buildings is filled with germs, get out while you can.
Thank you for your comment
I used to work at LBH.
In regards to the abandoned equipment, much of it is deprecated. Operations at St. Therese started winding down since 2000. Over 17 years, services migrated to Vista East or Vista Lindenhurst.
At the time USHV acquired the property, some of the equipment had been sitting for over a decade thus not suitable for patient use in a modern era.
Lots of medical lasers and spare parts, but most looks old enough that it probably won't be recertification.
Some shelters have a medical "free clinic ". Limited appointments but no fees. Having been a recipient of care at least once, many of the equipment at the shelter clinic looked dated. Probably would be appreciative if given the chairs and desks left behind, if nothing else.
Depreciated is a FINANCIAL reason 😠. If it FUNCTIONS (or can be serviced economically) safely it is useful to anyone that is not just looking for a tax right-off against revenue. It may not be the 'latest tech', buy it is better than NOTHING. The business office is what has ruined USA Healthcare. #1 is now BOTTOM LINE above all else.
@@steveurbach3093definitely 👍🏼 it’s very sad!
@steveurbach3093 then go pay money to recover and refurbish it. Because it costs money to do that.
Was born on this hospital. Been to the ER multiple times. Stayed at the adolescent/children psych ward a few times struggling with mental health issues. That hospital and staff are the reason why I'm alive today for multiple reasons. Breaks my heart to see it wither away but this video brings back many many memories good bad and ugly
I used to service equipment in the laboratory at this hospital and it was always sort of eerie going there for many reasons. Vista medical center was open and running a skeleton crew staff up until like 2017 or 2018.
Wow, I clicked on this just because I’m from Illinois. didn’t realize this video was going to take place in my town! super cool the building is now under demolition.
I’m an OR nurse and, unfortunately, the equipment cannot be repurposed due to it not being updated equipment. They must be donated updated equipment. The equipment is always just serviced and making sure it works…if a hospital wants updated equipment the departments must go in front of their department chair(s) and go that way about getting it. No hospital can accept used equipment. It has to be brand new and updated.
I think that they meant it could be donated to a clinic in another country where they don't have equipment.
@@alisong2328, sadly, you can’t do that either. Same rules apply. The idea has been brought up before at board meetings and you have to donate updated equipment and it’s also impossible to program this equipment into another language. Sad. 😣
Third world countries would love to have had this. And it would have been a great write off!
That is a silly rule someone somewhere should be able to use them!
What you mean by “updated” equipment?
When I watch this, I just think of all the people that roamed these halls. All the people who died there or lost someone. Old doctors teaching new ones. Nurses.....its creepy and eerie.
I grew up in these town and St Therese has always given me the absolute creeps. I had to take a preemployment drug test there maybe 18 years ago and it was already fairly abandoned by then with only a fraction of the campus open for operations and I ran the whole way. It doesn’t look as scary on camera as it felt to me in person. People from the area don’t typically go plundering the campus but I pray that people watching stay out of there or don’t go playing around in there. I can’t imagine how long a person could go unnoticed in there if you are injured.
I BET LOTS OF PEOPLE DIED IN THAT HOSPITAL DURING ITS HEYDAY. I BET THE HOSPITAL IS HUNTED AT NIGHT..ALL SORTS OF GHOST/EVIL SPIRITS THAT HAVENT CROSSOVER TO THE OTHER SIDE- COMING OUT OF NOWHERE. THAT EXPLAINS WHY THERE'S NO DRUG ADDICTS OR HOMELESS LOSERS CAMPING OUT THERE DURING THE NIGHT. THEY PROBABLY SCARED TO DEATH, EVEN THESE PEOPLE WHO VIDEO TAPED THE WHOLE THING. I BET THEY SHITTING IN THEIR PANTS WHILE FILMING.
How shameful a hospital leaves behind medical equipment and like the guy said why didn’t they donate it to another country? Why was medical records left at this place ? That’s a HIPPA violation, these owners should never be allowed to own another medical facility.
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I worked for a Leica/Wild dealer back in the mid-80s. That big stereoscope with stand @1:20 would have been $80k or more back then. That is a premium piece of equipment.
One of my favorite spots. Only part of the hospital is being torn down right now, but every time I go something new has changed. Power stayed on until sometime in June. I’d expect everything to be gone sooner or later.
So sad to see how wasteful our society has become.
It's mid Nov. This was posted 4 months ago in July. Even though it's usually hot and humid then; we here in IL. were having an unusual cold and snowy blast that lasted only a few hours when they were filming this video. Such an odd coincidence.
I lived twice blocks away for 25 years. Was not a nurse at 0that time. Im amazed at the equipment being wasted ...currently in use.
I worked here in the late 70s to the late 80's in the business office . This was a great place back then. This is sad to see. 😢
HOLY 💩! I live close by to this hospital! I had no idea it was abandoned!
Its pretty much all demolished now. Thanks for watching!
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Great video. There's another abandoned building in Waukegan. It is called the Waukegan Building on the SW corner of Washington Genesee, eight stories, or so, high. I would love to see the inside of that one, (hint, hint).
If you are still able to read what the on the monitor even though the power is off, that is because the image is burned into the phosphorus coating of the cathode ray tube. Those tv tubes have a very dark history of doing that if left powered up focused on one image for long durations of time. Led and oled screens don’t do that because no phosphorus coating is used in the material used to make them.
Thank you for that information. I knew there was a reason for it, I just never knew what that was.
Its so crazy stumbling on your video. I was a security guard there from 2008-2010. Seeing the phsych ward makes me sad thinking about the children that were there. The children had a room with nothing in it that would drive anyone crazy. I believe its the one you showed with the concrete bed and cameras in the room. When some one passed away the nurses would call us to beh the bodies and take them to the morgue. Awsome video. brought back memories of working there.
Wow I'm sure you have many memories from here. Thanks for watching our video and I'm glad you found it.
It is really bad that this equipment is just collecting dust when it could be donated to poor rural hospitals in Mexico or somewhere.
I’m an OR nurse and, unfortunately, the equipment cannot be repurposed due to it not being updated equipment. They must be donated updated equipment. The equipment is always just serviced and making sure it works…if a hospital wants updated equipment the departments must go in front of their department chair(s) and go that way about getting it. No hospital can accept used equipment. It has to be brand new and updated.
we dont need your charity vickie.
Or how about using it in our country. We could always use more hospitals
@@nategardoskigood idea and I agree, but I think viv a couple comments back said they cannot take the older equipment, prob has to do more with regulations than it’s lifespan left.
Second this. A lot of it is still usable.
43:56 It sounds like the door said "meow" watch out people there might be a ghost kitty lurking about LOL
I have used those old Draegers for years back in the early eighties. And they still have the old Halothane and Isoflurane anesthetic vaporizers attached. We stopped using Halothane back in the late eighties. Lots of concern for hepatotoxicity. Isoflurane was replaced by Sevoflurane in the eighties. Today much of the volatile anesthesia administration is accomplished with Desflurane and Sevoflurane. As for the machines being reused, they would required considerable updating and rebuilding think $. And no one would be willing to incur the liability involved. That operating microscope was VERY expensive for its day.
I have been to that hospital when it was active and wondered how it looked now. Glad you guys got to explore it!
Fascinating to look at all the abandoned medical devices, I have worked in the Biomedical industry for many years and familiar with most of those items. Most of that equipment is obsolete now, no good sending it to third world countries if there are no service parts available to repair and maintain it, it will all end up sitting in shipping containers deteriorating somewhere. Some of those items could belong in a museum, wish I could save some! By the way those cases hold very expensive, specialised ultrasound scanner transducers and video scopes. They certainly would have cost big bucks to purchase.
A museum would be really cool for some of this stuff like this whole hospital is basically a time capsule of old appliances
I work as an Electronics/Biomed Tech. I absolutely love the job.
Yup some of those are heads for lasers. They got a small but powerful yag laser inside them.
Not all of that equipment was obsolete, and a lot of it is still serviceable.
Oh for like a colonoskopy the camera
Wow it’s kind of sad. That’s my hometown my brother and sister were born there. Then my son in 1988. I moved from wkgn in 1998!! Lots of memories
I'm sure its crazy to see it now in this condition. Thanks for watching our video. Glad you came across it.
@@abandonedcentral yea very. Saw a video of the demolition. 😞
I went to this hospital in 1998 when a 16 year old girl crashed into me head on into my taxi, I remember the x ray room, they took so many x rays on me, i never would have though this place would end up like this, I moved to Florida after leaving the hospital, glad to still be alive
I grew up in that area and moved out of state in 2019 and the ER at this location was still open and functional.
Crazy to see such nice-looking equipment discarded. Everything seems relatively clean.
What is sad is the truth that this world we live in today has the same decaying feeling that one has looking at this video. There was a time when people gave freely of themselves for the good of others. What will we become?
I was born in this Hospital many years ago, so sad to see it like this and equipment wasted.
This is painful to see. I stayed in the adolescent psych ward, not sure how much you actually filmed in there, but I was really hoping you'd show more of it. I wanted to see if it was still how it was back in May 2007 when I was there. Sad they're demoing it. I wish I could have gone back and toured it. It's so surreal when you're there, especially as a psych patient, because they only allow you very small freedoms and you never really know exactly where you are in the building. I would have loved to go back and see it with adult eyes, now that I'm twice my age I was when I was there. :( What a crazy thing to see, though. Thank you for sharing this.
it is sad. i stayed at the hospital when i was 11 or 12 1991 or 1992 sometime. i did art therapy and school!
I’m so greatful to see the hospital where I was born. Thank you to the people that produced this video as I plan to release a documentary on my life story and wanted any pics or videos of where my story began, you are so awesome for showing me this it’s as close as I’m able to be since I’m in a different state thank you all and God bless you !
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Wow no way!
I was a security guard at that hospital while it still had an open ER wing.
Our priority was sticking around there but we’d also have to sweep the grounds for signs of trespassing or electrical fires.
I hated patrolling the abandoned nunnery and other floors of the building including the creepy basement and cellar in the gymnasium.
Spooky stuff.
Vista Hospital systems bought and owned the building, but let it rot. Now I think it’s completely closed altogether judging by the video.
I bet walking around the abandoned parts while this property was still active was creepy. Thanks for watching our video!
It still looks better than the hospital I work at here in Venezuela.
I'm sorry to hear that 😔
Wow. I’ve seen almost closed Malls, but not hospitals. Ironically, I understand what happened. I started work at a hospital administered by Nuns. Same thing a merge happened and is no longer owned by nuns. Thank you for recording this. I’m intrigued.
i was born there. all of my siblings were born there. grew up just blocks away. so sad to see it this way
As a x-ray tech it's so cool to see that Interventional Radiology room so untouched. Technology has advanced so much compared to how old that equipment is.
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Really cool to see the very clean endoscopic camera in the ICU and the barium sulfate in the storage/end of the vid.
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!
Yes -- a lot of that equipment is outdated, but there were several things I saw in there that could have been used at another facility or donated to a nursing program or other places.. Machines for taking vitals, IV pumps, warmers, monitors, lighting, etc etc... It's disgusting that so much has gone to waste... Ugh.. So much good use could have been made of much of that equipment.. Companies should be heavily fined for leaving *working* equipment behind. This is the worst I've ever seen for equipment left.
I agree they should be fined if its still useable. This happens far too often. I feel like 6-7 years ago the hospitals were cleaned out quicker when they closed. For the past several years so many hospitals have been left like this.
I'm a nurse and I hurts me to see deteriorating old hospitals. Healthcare has really gone down the drain over the years. High tech and without the touch.
I grew up in Waukegan and was a Candy Striper at St. Therese in the late 80’s. So sad to see it like this.
I've never hit a hospital like this before the ones I've done have a few chairs left if that,great vid as usual!
They leave the power on because if they turned it off in order to turn it back on through the electric company they would have to be up to code (which would be millions for that place) so it’s cheaper to keep the power on. You see this in many old buildings
Thank you for explaining, I’ve always wondered why some large scale buildings leave the power on, also this raises some serious concerns, because code regulations have incentivized property owners to leave empty buildings connected to power for nothing which inevitably raises electricity prices to compensate for the extra load on the power grid going to power empty buildings. (Because people will leave things powered on)
Seems like this has been majorly overlooked and I feel like property owners that do this to avoid having to pay for updates or inspections should be held legally responsible with making sure electricity is not being wasted powering things inside empty buildings,
I know this hospital well. Been a patient there many times. Compared to Victory across town this was the larger more advanced hospital in town
Buildings like this with tons of rooms already plumbed with bathrooms etc could be converted to transitional housing....why don't they do this before this place is beyond repurposing??
For one thing, it would have already needed new plumbing at the time this was recorded. People had already come in and taken all the old copper pipes out. That's why there's holes in some of the walls.
Scales in the morgue? Yes, in a hospital they actually use them to weigh your internal organs (heart, kidney, stomach, etc). I can't imagine someone just abandoning all the files and records of former patients leaving their personal identification numbers just laying around like that.. that is not right. So why was this hospital abandoned when this community needed it???
I always wondered why in hospital videos the sinks are smashed in every single room. Can't believe it's for the copper. Just wow.
Yea its crazy to see what they go through to steal the copper.
Some of the drinking fountains are very ornate. sad to see them trashed for copper.
At 19:02, that room is an interventional radiology operating room. They use fluoroscopic x-rays (which are off) to assist in minimally invasive intervention. I can't believe it's all intact. The button next to the joystick controls the bed and c-arm (on your left), and the x-ray buttons are the pedals on the floor. The thing hanging from the ceiling is a power injector to inject intravenous contrast during the surgery, to show the arteries and veins.
I’d like to have those crt computer monitors, and old computers, something fierce.
This was great, keep up the awesome work everyone! ❤
Thank you Mary! Glad you liked it.
This is really crazy. I drive past this hospital every day. They've finally started to tear it down 😢. Somebody also started a fire in the building a month ago so that was interesting 😅
They are taking a while to demolish this one. Usually it takes a week or two at most. They been at this one for a while now.
@@abandonedcentral Right?! I agree. It's odd.
Part of it was they were hoping to turn the abandoned dorms/buildings to condos but that fell apart
Omg I grew up in Waukegan I been to that Hospital a few times when I was open :O
That’s a Hippaa violation with all those files left for any person wondering through that abandoned place…And most of that stuff could have been donated to a homeless clinic for ppl less fortunate…So sad…Thanks for sharing..
It such a shame to see a lot of perfectly good equipment sit to rot. Yes some outdated but still quite a few gear that being used today that parts are still available even?
I agree with Jo the retired nurse. The amount of money that is rotting machines, surgical room. I’m puzzled because dealing with hospital budgets all this is priceless. Was this hospital shut down by JACHO. This is a group who visit hospitals, pharmacies. Checking for anything or congratulate the Medical Hospital Director. Anyone who works or has worked in a hospital knows how this operates. No fun to hear when JACHO is coming.
No, this had nothing to do with JACHO, it was pure corporate greed of the latest ownership group coupled with the investors taking over and then selling off the best parts for the highest profits.
I would love to explore an abandoned hospital. I had a chance locally but the price was jail time if we were caught, and being in my 50s, wisdom kicked in and I didn't do it. What is cool though is seeing videos like this and what I might have seen. Thanks for posting!!
Great still shots, too!
At 19:04 that is a C Arm Fluoroscopy X-Ray unit. At 20:18 the orange box you are zooming in on is a contrast media injection pump. Injects dye into the bloodstream so it may be observed on the Fluoroscopy X-Ray in real-time. At 20:27. X-Ray tube is on the left / Fluoroscopy X-Ray pickup / collector box is on the right. At 21:47 GE Advantx generator control counsel. In my mind, their Advantx series generators came out about 30 years ago now, give or take a few years. At 22:02 is the control box for the contrast media injector pump. At 38:49 is a general X-Ray room. At 39:20 is a panoramic dental X-Ray machine. At 40:13 is another C Arm Fluoroscopy X-Ray unit room. At 40:48 Not MRI, X-Ray. At 44:04 is a general Fluoroscopy X-Ray unit. This type, the X-Ray tube is in the table, and the Fluoroscopy X-Ray pickup / collector is the piece above the table. At 44:45 Yes, that is a CT X-Ray unit. Philips brand. At 44:54 Even LESS fun is MRI! CT is easy compared to MRI.
The first room was definitely an interventional room or Cath lab. The stories it could tell!
That is insane how much money got wasted in that place, all that equipment could've been used somewhere else in the world where it's needed. Just those CT Scanners are probably worth $300k up to $2mil.
😮😮 Happens far to often with gear worth that much money. Someone should be held responsible.
I was born at this hospital. My mother who passed in 2006 used to tell me the nuns said I looked like a little Angel; I was named Angela because of this. I worker there in my early 20s, an alternative therapeutic school rented space. I know pass it every day on my way enroute to pick up students in Waukegan District 60 schools. It is a shell of what it once was. It is being made into a mental health facility and construction has stopped. There are parts of the building ripped out (it looks like Oklahoma bombing) and has no windows. On certain sides of one building there is no wall. Construction has been put to a stop and union workers are often outside with signs. Asbestos has been exposed and now it just sits, making the air quality worse than it already is. Waukegan is on a downward spiral and has been since I was a child. Factories, most abandoned now as well, sit along the lakefront as an eyesore. Toxins from those factories did not move with the factories, they buried them into the sand. A young woman wrote a book about her sister's terminal cancer diagnosis being tied to the fishing and chemical exposure to carcinogens in Waukegan. It's not just the environment that has toxins, several years ago The Lake County Courthouse that sits downtown Waukegan was raided and now a judge and several others have been charged with multiple counts of fraud, embezzlement and numerous criminal charges. This place I once called home is an embarrassment and deserves better community than this shell of town. Tragic.
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One thing I will say about that X-ray equipment is there are some dangers with their machines as far as trying to scrap them machines and the radiation that's inside of them
There has been multiple incidents of the chemo therapy machines ending up in a scrap yard and the owners getting radiation poisoning
What was once expensive equipment is now just someone's burden. I imagine the cheapest way to handle it was to abandon it all and hope people take it
While exploring in florence, kentucky years ago, i found an abandoned former animal hospital with many of the pharmacuticals still on the shelves.
Those exact Posey beds are still in use at the hospital where I work. That’s perfectly good equipment right there!
Yea not sure why the reusable stuff was never sold or even donated? Sucks to see it all rotting away. Everything was thrown out when the building was demolished.
The Ambulance Stretcher at 10:48 is a Ferno Model 35A Mobile transporter
That place has been closed for about 20...ish years. There was an expiration of 2004 on one of the steris cleaning bottles. Reminds me of how Atlanta medical looked after it closed before their equipment was sent off to different wellstar facilities
That's what I thought but I work there now (part of the demolition crew) and I've seen signs from 2017. So no idk what to think.
@@justinofioravanti2841 oh wow!
in 2000 they started closing services.By 2017, only an ED, corporate health, and psych services were open. Subsequently they sold to USHV. USHV operated within the building until 2020.
The nearby stent selection chart suggests the room at 40:23 was an X-ray unit for PCI (percutaneous coronary interventiobn) angiogram/angioplasty.
I was born here, sad to see stuff left behind that rural hospitals could have used
I'm curious as to why you never pick up a sheet of paper and look for a date, so we have an idea of how long this stuff has been sitting there. I think it is a disgrace that this equipment is not being sold off to medical refurbishing companies?
That is just sad. I Work at one of its hospital sisters facilities St. Johns Hospital in Springfield IL. I'm sure there was some bankruptcy ruling that prevented them from selling any of the equipment. Did same thing to the Vibra hospital in Springfield IL. Only things immediately removed was the Drugs and the leased equipment. Everything else sat in there for a near year
Love the scary music! Great video!!
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I’d love to have one of those baby incubators…they’d be perfect to start plants in.
Haha never thought about that. Nice little clone dome.
And I wonder why my INSURANCE PREMIUMS ARE SO F'N HIGH!! What a disgusting WASTE!
The only reason I can think of that the equipment wasn’t sold or given away to another hospital in the area. It’s probably because at the same time the hospital was shutting down other hospitals are probably getting updated equipment, which is why this equipment never was put to use, but it should have been donated to another country That doesn’t have much in their hospital instead of it just laying around despite the fact that it is old is still thousands of dollars worth of a medical equipment that can be used and I’m sure it’s fully functional there’s so many hospitals overseas that don’t even have enough incubators for their babies like they could use half of this stuff in other places
Shocking that it's being wasted when someone could be using it. Unbelievable. Some non-profit needs to look into utilizing this in some way. Somebody has to have the vision to do something valuable with this stuff.
My father was born in this hospital.
Why was all of that just left behind? That makes no sense at all !
Man that's a sin !
7 minutes into this vid and even before the commentator said anything my 1st thought is "This is why medical cost so much"..
This is so sad to see all of this going to waste , when it could be used !!!!
It’s a shame all of it couldn’t be updated and sent to underdeveloped countries who can’t afford this kind of equipment. Too bad they can’t turn these old buildings into homeless shelters.
Yes it is. Everything was trashed and the building was demolished.
Its sucks they left all that there and wnd up charging people so much for medical cost when a lot of that stuff is still good or can be updated to some degree to use in so many places to help people. They take it out on us.