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anna
Fri 04-22-2005
so much for patient confidentiality .
anita
Wed 04-27-2005
Let us hope those teenage smokers stay out of this room.
Mystwict@aol.com
Mon 05-16-2005
Incredibly disrespectful to leave records scattered and lying around like this...don't know how old these papers are but some of the people mentioned in them might be alive!
cecilia
Mon 05-16-2005
Really! Disrespectfull, these papers need to be gathered and burned.
spacyjo
Mon 05-16-2005
they need to be archived, not burned.
kate
Sun 06-05-2005
did the ghost get angry and throw everything everywere?
xx
Fri 06-10-2005
I think the time limit is 10 years then destroy records after that.....but they should be archived before destruction, I agree.
AutumnTwin
Sat 08-20-2005
That is just shameful.
Paulina
Wed 10-19-2005
Terrible, I agree....

HEY! Who lives in the barn?!?! The door is open!!
Tony C.
Wed 10-19-2005
It always saddens me to see this many records scattered about without a care. These are someone's personal history and they shouldn't be treated like garbage.

I know that when buildings close there isn't always money for long-term, secure storage, but Jesus Murphy, don't leave this stuff lying around.
IndieQueen
Thu 10-27-2005
I would scoop up a handful and take them. I've did this with several abandoned buildings I've been in.
Lots of interesting reading.
Puddleboy
Thu 10-27-2005
You can tell that patient confidentiality wasn't a major concern like it is now.
Lyric
Sun 11-13-2005
Damn Motts when did you sneak in and take a picture of my office?
Patient confidentiality don't seem to apply in a lot of these old places once they close down. That is sad.
Truckie
Wed 11-23-2005
Looks like my house
Bonehead
Wed 11-30-2005
its illegal and always has been to leave papers regarding patients. none of those paper dicusss patients, the good documents are probably the only things removed from this place.
jenn
Thu 12-01-2005
The room looks like several I've visited, where the vultures and looters go through every drawer, every box, and just throw everything on the floor. Are they looking for money? I've never found very much in the way of money in any abandoned building. Only loose change.
Puddleboy
Fri 12-02-2005
I guess that the bookkeeper did'nt do a very good job with keeping up with the records! lol
Trey Whitman
Wed 12-14-2005
I would hate to be the one that has got to clean this up!!!
Melissa
Mon 01-16-2006
I would love to take a whole bunch and read them. It should be interesting!
Andy
Fri 01-27-2006
AUGH, Tax Time.... I've got to sort all of this out so I can file!
Bill Romjue
Fri 02-10-2006
Just one word - RECYCLE!
Joe
Thu 03-02-2006
This is just what an undergraduate student's dorm room looks like.
Raymond
Mon 03-27-2006
Ah, if only the people who instituted HIPPA could see this photo...they'd probably develop some kind of nervous twitch. :-)
Scarlett77
Sat 05-13-2006
That's a picture of my IN-box.
Gezal
Thu 06-01-2006
the paper work was probably neatly stacked in boxes at one point but vandles and rotting boxes screwed it up. I know from expierience that after the box starts to rot the papers push on the sides and the break out and spill on the floor.
Tom
Fri 06-09-2006
No, no, no; how can they just not care and throw everything on the floor like that? If it's not that important, then get rid of it. I don't know, what more can I say? I just don't understand the way some people go about things.
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
I HATE HOSPITALS!!!!!
Kelsy
Fri 06-23-2006
looks like my office at work.... and my desk...RIGHT NOW!
Prof_washu
Thu 07-13-2006
It is weird that there's a small space in the floor with no paper at all...
Mechabull
Sat 09-16-2006
Ach, or ON the floor. Damn, I can't write anything.

It still looks like someone had gone through the papers and left a clean spot there.
Mechabull
Sat 09-16-2006
Dang!Thats one huge mess for mankind.
D.J
Thu 10-05-2006
confidentiality at its best
kelly
Mon 12-18-2006
The sad thing is, the state is responsible for all of these documents and ensuring their confidentiality. They are considered medical records and cannot be destroyed. I can't seem to identify any reason that they are still in this facility. It's law that once a facility is closed, all remaining patient documents are to be removed and stored at an alternate location.
J~
Sat 03-24-2007
Yeah, I was at Blue Ridge Sanitarium and found a desktop full of audio tapes of patient interviews and several filing cabinets full of large index cards with patient names and dates of admittance and release and their problems / diagnosis from the late 80s... also found some small paper books/logs that patients were to fill out daily while in the psych unit...
VaUrbanExploring.com
Fri 04-06-2007
looks like my car , and bedroom here when did you sneek into my car , bedroom.
big c
Fri 04-06-2007
Most of it's boring financial records/history. And it's all soaked and rotting anyways..
Ericam
Tue 09-04-2007
I found a few papers with copies of i.d.s and soc. security cards laying around without even looking. Tons of these rooms are filled to the top with computers and other stuff. Pretty big waste.
XJPX
Mon 10-08-2007
Holy shit. Talk about your fire hazards.
abandonedNH
Wed 12-19-2007
How do papers get scattered around like this? Do vandals come in and do this, or is this something that somehow happens over time do to other factors in the building? It just seems that boxes of papers should stay in their boxes.

It seems this is a common occurance in most of these buildings
warhead
Fri 01-04-2008
For all of you, those are not patient papers. The idiots running Oneida County put all the county records in this building for some un-godly reason. Of course kids came in and ruinned the records. My question is why would you put inportant county documents in an abandoned facility that isn't monitored by city of Utica officials, like the Old Main for instance? hmm
Matt
Sun 01-06-2008
What sort of county records? Who runs your county?
AvalonSeeker
Sun 01-27-2008
Glad im not doing their filing!!!
Kate
Tue 02-26-2008
When my doctors office closed and I demanded my files they refused and told me they would be archived in boxes and stored somewhere. YEAH RIGHT - THIS is what it would have ended up as. I put up the biggest stink they ever say and eventually got my records, all 285 pages but had to pay for them. This is a shame. I would love to go through this place and somehow archive all this history.
Edward B
Fri 06-27-2008
someone needs a sectratary?
!
Thu 07-03-2008
To me its scattered souls, like autumn leaves that fall from the tree, each one has a history within its veins of ink
RevolutionaryDisaster
Mon 07-28-2008
Wow, it looks like a filing cabinet threw up in there
#!
Wed 11-19-2008
what happen to this building and the contents. doesnt anyone care anymore. i worked there as an aide and it was a nice facility. what happened??? i loved the patients and their records should not be scattered around like that. please care and do the roght thing.
claudia
Sun 06-21-2009
gawds, this totally looks like the inside of my head...
"so, what did you do last weekend?"
"uhm..." *rifles through filing cabinet labelled "MEMORY"*

uhm...
stuff...?

*head asplodes*
kittymao
Tue 07-14-2009
Yes! More drawing paper for me!!!!
ilovehorseyrides
Sun 08-16-2009
-_- Mystwict@aol.com, i agree with you.
xgothikstarzx@aol.com
Tue 08-25-2009
patient records line the sanitorium floor, names,dates,lists of medications,lists of symptoms, some patients ARE still alive.. still have confidence in your county?
P in Kalamazoo
Sun 09-20-2009
I think these should be gathered and archived. This is an amazing part of history..Thanks for sharing.
Misty Issel
Sun 11-08-2009
Maybe someone was looking for something specific?
Charley
Sun 11-28-2010
These look interesting to look around at what kinds of papers these are (records maybe?) just to be nosy, and it kinda looks interesting, maybe until you actually look at the papers and don't find them to be exciting.... but I definitely do agree that these papers should be RECYCLED! Whoever left the place seemed irresponsible to just leave them behind.. smh..
Cara
Tue 03-15-2011
Oh, for those who have posted after 2006, the building was demolished (2006). By 2007, the entire place was gone. Just a reminder... But I wonder what happened to all the documents???
Cara
Tue 03-15-2011
Sad, my grandfather passed away there in 1980.
Susan
Fri 06-24-2011
good god!!! o.o
emzroz
Mon 01-09-2012
This is sickening...Im guessing..teenagers with Nothing better to do than destroy things that are none of there business. I guess since I was in training at Broadacres and saw 1st hand how sad and lonley so many of the elderly people seemed to be..its always made me angry to see what the mindless..heartless jerks do.
ati64
Wed 02-08-2012
holy shit that is insaneeeee and so illegal omg
Biig L
Thu 02-09-2012

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