St Alice Hospital

### Departments

(standard: ICU, PICU, Psychiatric, NICU, CICU, GICU, A&E, CSSD, AMU, HDU, ORs (Surgery), PACU, Pharmacy, OPD, LABs, SAU, OU, Rehabilitation, BU, NETU, Radiology/X-Ray, General Services)(additional: Day unit, UCU, LTTU, TNU)

### Anomalous Rating

4 / 10

St Alice Hospital is the massive hospital complex that the St Alice area is famous for. As of its most recent development, the hospital can hold up to 11,200 patients with 29,000 staff in normal operations. More interestingly, there are unused and reserved underground wards and units that could be reused in the event of emergency need. Because of its large size, the hospital is in two main parts: St Alice North and St Alice South. Both parts of St Alice Hospital have their separate units and wards, meaning that there is minimal overlap but they are strongly considered the same hospital.

Interestingly, the whole complex is powered by three steam turbines with steam coming out of the local hot-spring called "Poeth Cyson" which is welsh for "steady hot". The remaining steam is used to provide heating and any remaining electricity is sold back to the national grid.

## St Alice North

This is the **outpatients** part of the hospital where admissions normally take place. A standard hospital trip would lead a patient to be taken here and its rare that a "normal" patient would end up going to St Alice South. Standard and routine procedures would be carried out in St Alice North. If a patient is in St Alice for more than two weeks, they would then be moved to St Alice South.

St Alice North has an ordinary capacity of 5,200 patients.

## St Alice South

This is the inpatients part of the hospital where long term care is usually given. Often chronically ill patients will stay a while in St Alice South whilst receiving treatments. Some patients who have severe mental health problems are also in St Alice South and, as such, there's more security as well as more mental health nurses.

St Alice South has an ordinary capacity of 6,000 patients.

## History

The St Alice area has had some sort of hospital ever since it was recognised. Its always had an affinity for healing notions. The very first hospital, evidenced by its remains underneath the staff campus Zone A, appears to be a moderately-sized sanatorium designed to care for chronic illnesses. Unfortunately little else is known about these buildings apart from that they were probably used intensely when several early epidemics were occurring.

The first institution that could be seen as the precursor to the modern St Alice Hospital was the St Alice Infirmary. This opened in the 1st edition.

There was a small bit of controversy when the CHS was formed due to the hospital's owner at the time wanting to change to a for-profit system instead. Unfortunately for a while, the owner succeeded and the hospital remained for-profit. However, as its common with for-profit healthcare, several medical accidents occurred due to horribly inadequate care. After what seemed like a lack of action from management, large-scale protest occurred outside which convinced more and more of the staff to quit. St Alice Infirmary closed, the owner went bankrupt and later disappeared, most likely due to outstanding dept. As soon as the buildings of St Alice Infirmary were available for sale, the local counsel immediately bought the premises and all of the equipment still inside for only £300, whilst estimates valued the buildings and equipment at £46 million... The buildings were surveyed, requiring only £40,000 in refurbishment of some of the complex since the whole place was in extremely good condition.

Ultimately, St Alice Infirmary was almost completely refurbished when demand severely outweighed the infirmary's capacity. At some point, it was realised that a majority of the buildings that made up St Alice Infirmary were severely limited in their ability to be upgraded and eventually it was decided to build over most of them. What remains of the St Alice Infirmary can be found mostly underneath St Alice North although several corridors have survived and are incorporated in to the modern St Alice North's architecture. Most of the information about St Alice Infirmary, including old patient records and even schematics are held in the county archives as well as the St Alice Museum.

## Departments

Standard:

* ICU
* Pediatric ICU
* Geriatric ICU
* Neonatal ICU
* Cardiac ICU
* Acute Medical Unit (AMU)
* Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD)
* General Support Services (GSS) (Support Services include services provided by Departments such as Portering, Catering, Housekeeping, Security, Health & Safety, Switch, Laundry and the management of facilities such as parking, baby tagging, access control, CCTV etc. )
* Gynecology Unit (GU)
* Labs & Pathology
* ICD (Infection Control Department)
* Maternity and Births
* EU (Endoscopy Unit)
* Records department
* ORs (surgery)
* Emergency ORs (E-ORs)
* Pharmacy
* Physiotherapy
* Hydrotherapy
* PACU (Post-anesthesia care unit)
* High Dependency Unit (HDU)
* Burns Unit
* Rehabilitation
* Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU)
* Cath Labs
* OutPatients Department (OPD)
* Orthopaedics Unit (OU)
* Neurology
* Oncology
* Dermatology
* Ear Nose & Throat Unit (ENTU)
* Nephrology & Dialysis Center (Kidney)
* Ophthalmology (Eye)
* Radiology & Nuclear medicine (Diagnostic and therapy)
* Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU)
* EMCOC (EMCO Centre)
* Hospice
* Security

Psychiatric:

* Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
* Crisis Stabilisation Unit (CSU)
* Medium-Term Care Unit (MTCU)
* Long-Term Care Unit (LTCU)
* Identity Crisis Care Unit (ICCU)
* Psychiatric High Dependency Unit (PHDU)
* Patient Residences
* Crisis Response
* Mental Health Security

Additional:

* Unusual Care Unit (UCU)
* Anomalous Conditions Unit (ACU)

UNFINISHED.... EUhg I need more sleep