Paperwork

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so much for patient confidentiality .

Let us hope those teenage smokers stay out of this room.

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!

Really! Disrespectfull, these papers need to be gathered and burned.

they need to be archived, not burned.

did the ghost get angry and throw everything everywere?

I think the time limit is 10 years then destroy records after that.....but they should be archived before destruction, I agree.

That is just shameful.

Terrible, I agree....

HEY! Who lives in the barn?!?! The door is open!!

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.

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.

You can tell that patient confidentiality wasn't a major concern like it is now.

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.

Looks like my house

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.

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.

I guess that the bookkeeper did'nt do a very good job with keeping up with the records! lol

I would hate to be the one that has got to clean this up!!!

I would love to take a whole bunch and read them. It should be interesting!

AUGH, Tax Time.... I've got to sort all of this out so I can file!

Just one word - RECYCLE!

This is just what an undergraduate student's dorm room looks like.

Ah, if only the people who instituted HIPPA could see this photo...they'd probably develop some kind of nervous twitch. :-)

That's a picture of my IN-box.

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.

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.

I HATE HOSPITALS!!!!!

looks like my office at work.... and my desk...RIGHT NOW!

It is weird that there's a small space in the floor with no paper at all...

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.

Dang!Thats one huge mess for mankind.

confidentiality at its best

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.

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...

looks like my car , and bedroom here when did you sneek into my car , bedroom.

Most of it's boring financial records/history. And it's all soaked and rotting anyways..

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.

Holy shit. Talk about your fire hazards.

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

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

What sort of county records? Who runs your county?

Glad im not doing their filing!!!

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.

someone needs a sectratary?

To me its scattered souls, like autumn leaves that fall from the tree, each one has a history within its veins of ink

Wow, it looks like a filing cabinet threw up in there

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.

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*

Yes! More drawing paper for me!!!!

-_- Mystwict@aol.com, i agree with you.

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?

I think these should be gathered and archived. This is an amazing part of history..Thanks for sharing.

Maybe someone was looking for something specific?

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..

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???

Sad, my grandfather passed away there in 1980.

good god!!! o.o

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.

holy shit that is insaneeeee and so illegal omg

I would get a comfy chair (not one in the building), kick back, and gather these papers up and read them. Then, I would ferret them out a handful at a time and keep them safe. Would make for interesting reading indeed, even if they aren't patient records. I wouldn't doubt you can find good documents in these places. Really is a sad state sometimes when patient records are left behind.

Personally, I think the hospital/asylum/sanitarium does that when they get closed down is because they are usually accused of doing harm to patients and when they are ordered to shut the place down leave the records in place in a sort of One Finger Salute to the Mental Health Regulatory Agency or Code Enforcement Office that shut the place down, possibly thinking in a bizarre way it would exonerate them by showing what they did in regards to the care of the patients. I could be wrong on that, but you never truly know... Or else they did it for the same One Finger Salute reasons, but taking a different tact, saying that "if we are closed down, patient confidentiality goes out the window. We close, no long bound by that provision. So close us and see what happens." It really is indeed a bit sad, but would make for fascinating reading nonetheless.

Is the door ajar???
WHO would make this mess and why????
Someone somewhere is Not doing their job, and taking decisions & responsibility for their area/work, that´s for sure. Well that´s how we people are! Hmmm yes.
:-) Your photos: crystallized , touching , sympathetic and sincere. Thank you so very much! Yer da bestest, Mr. M.

tsk tsk tsk. . all those trees. ... killed for what?