Photographs: VIP Room, Patient Rooms, Morgue, Rehab, Bridge, Supplies
Suite A, also known as the VIP room. It was later used for terminally ill patients.
The VIP room was very spacious.
This area was where family or associates of the VIP could hang out.
The VIP stayed in this room.
French doors opened to the outside.
A deck was just off of the VIP patient room in an enclosed courtyard.
The VIP sink.
The VIP toilet.
The VIP shower included two shower heads.
A heat lamp was on the ceiling of the VIP bathroom.
The Stepdown/Observation unit.
The unit was undergoing renovation up until the day the hospital closed.
One of the rooms of the observation area.
The observation area’s nurse’s desk.
Some files remained in a cabinet behind the desk.
Another hallway in the observation area.
The renovation had not yet reached rooms farther down the hallway.
Caution tape likely placed there during the renovation.
This room located next to the nurse’s station was reportedly the haunted room.
As you can see, a wall was placed in the middle of the room.
It was easy to tell that the new wall was not original to the room.
The doorway to the connected bathroom had been walled, making it a stand-alone restroom.
The rest of the haunted room on the other side of the wall.
Leaving the Stepdown/Observation area.
The second floor patient rooms.
A bathtub in one of the rooms.
A patient room. Small TVs were mounted to the wall.
A nurse’s station.
The end of the patient hallway.
This was the negative pressure room where patients with infectious diseases were admitted.
These controls for the negative pressure room were to the right of the door.
The callbox and remote for the TV in the negative pressure room.
A locker room for the second floor patient area.
Going into another patient wing.
A rather large room for a single patient.
Another nurse’s station on the second floor.
This large phone was behind the nurse’s desk.
Equipment to monitor the medical gas system for the patient rooms.
A sink area.
The nurse’s chartboard.
A large stand-alone bathtub.
A large walk-in shower, possibly used for patients confined to a wheelchair.
A torn dividing curtain in one of the patient rooms.
The Stark County Morgue was located in the basement.
Entering the Stark County Morgue.
The morgue’s loading dock.
The autopsy table.
Chunks of flesh and hair were left in the sink.
Blood was on the overhead exam light.
This was in the middle of the autopsy table.
A garbage disposal was mounted under the autopsy table.
The autopsy table from the foot to the head.
The morgue’s walk-in cooler.
Two of the three tables that were in the cooler.
The third table inside the cooler.
The morgue also contained two pull-out coolers.
We opened both of the coolers.
Very small bits of blood and flesh remained on the pull-out table.
The morgue’s office area.
There was a waiting room just off of the morgue’s office.
This small room served as the hospital’s original morgue.
A sink in the corner of the old morgue.
It appeared that the old morgue was used as a maintenance area after the morgue was relocated.
This elevator around the corner from the original morgue was used to transport bodies down to the basement.
The morgue elevator’s controls.
This door was labeled as a gym.
The room was once used as the rehab unit.
On the second floor, this was known as the “Bridge to the Future.”
A directional sign near the Bridge to the Future.
The main supply room for Doctors Hospital.
A few boxes of supplies were still waiting to be relocated.
The remaining supplies on the shelf.
Photographs: Maintenance, Receiving, Computer Room, Sterilization, Classrooms
This door near the surgery department opened to reveal pipes.
Looking down into the boiler room.
The doorway to Mechanical Room 8, AKA the boiler room.
Large pipes and a few boilers in the background.
Two of the hot water boilers.
Certificates posted for boiler operation.
The medical vacuum system.
Looking up toward the surgery department door.
These gauges showed no pressure in the system.
A spare part storage room.
This pipe was where water for the entire hospital entered the building.
Some large electrical panels on the far side of the boiler room.
A rather large electric room.
This large diesel generator operated at more than 1,000 horsepower to produce back-up electricity if there was an outage.
The back-up generator’s control panel.
Some of the electrical boxes in the generator room.
Electrical panels for the elevators, X-Ray equipment, emergency department and surgery.
The Doctors Hospital paint shop.
A few stencils left in the paint shop.
The electrical contractor’s man cave.
The sign above the maintenance bay.
Hospital signs left behind in the maintenance bay.
Maintenance employee lockers.
Chilled and heated water supply pipes passed overhead in a nearby hall.
Going inside a large air handler around the corner from the Bridge to the Future.
There were several small rooms inside the air handler.
Large blowers were in each of the small rooms.
A motor for one of the blowers.
At the other end of the blower.
A view inside the blower.
A schematic for the air handler.
A maintenance office near the bay.
The hospital’s key box.
The empty security office was also in this section of the hospital.
The carpenter shop for Doctors Hospital.
Boxes of new tile were stored on the second level of the carpenter shop.
The old locksmith’s office was just off of the carpentry shop.
Spare light bulbs were stored in this maintenance area.
Pipes and equipment in a maintenance area.
This was the hospital’s old water well.
A crawl space full of spare toilets and sinks.
The hospital’s original maintenance shop was most recently used to store spare parts.
Some old CCTV security equipment was left behind.
The hospital’s phone lines entered the building in the old maintenance shop.
This maintenance tunnel stretched for as far as they eye could see.
This was where natural gas once entered the building. The pipes had been capped and the meters were pulled.
An electrical closet.
Some equipment in a storage room.
This area was where emergency preparedness supplies were stored.
Steep stairs led up to a door.
A sump pump was behind the door.
This was the housekeeping area.
Several vacuum cleaners were left behind.
Wet floor signs.
A couple of pillows in the housekeeping area.
Doctors Hospital’s receiving dock.
A couple of patient beds were in the receiving dock area.
The computer room for Doctors Hospital had a raised floor.
The computer room’s power supply.
This was the computer room’s dedicated air conditioner.
This room was used to sterilize medical equipment.
The ethylene oxide sterilization equipment.
The sterilization room had four ethylene oxide machines. They were to be relocated to another hospital.
There were three classrooms for the teaching section of the hospital.
The North/South Room was a large meeting room.
When Doctors Hospital closed, the staff held a party in the North/South Room. They wrote some interesting messages on the walls.
“May the ghosts be with you!” Apparently the Doctors Hospital ghosts were well-known.
“Good bye to Doctors Hospital’s ghost. We will miss you.”
“Born here. Patient here. Worked here.”
“Destroying the best team in Stark County.”
“See you in a couple of months when someone else buys the building and we are all back!” This prophecy did not come true.