Her Room

it makes you realize that people actually stayed in these rooms.

They sure wouldn't allow THAT these days with HIPAA and all. :-)

How profoundly sad!

SURE AM GLAD YOU CAPTURED THIS, MOTTS. VERY NICE. THOUGHT PROVOKING TO SAY THE LEAST.

I was thinking the same thing Lynne, that wouldn't happen these days. How sad it makes one feel to see a real person's name on the old door.

true, it is so sad, we just had a resident transferred to another facility yesterday, and when i came on shift, everything was gone, even the name plate on the door.

just curious, could you read the name?

kinda creepy you could still read it after all those years.(shudder)

I was just noticing... the longer I looked at the tag, the more I could see...... the name appears to be "Ann Hansen". I wonder where she is now and what might have happened to her.
... Sounds like the opening of a novel.

Jmom, your eyes are better than mine, and I just got new glasses.

Dang, Jmom i can't see anything.

Motts, I've heard rumours (rather recently actually) that danvers was going to be torn down this year. Is that a threat to kids do you think, or is it going to happen?? By the way, I admire your Photography. I was outside of danvers, right as the security guard was leaving....but i've heard its hard to get in...unless you know where the entrance is.

Hi All... the way I got the name "Ann Hansen" from the tag over the door- try looking at it from an angle and only a few inches from your computer screen.
See if you can make out the letters, especially the "n"s and the "H". I'm not sure I'm right, but I think its closel Knowing a name really brings it into perspective.

I wonder whoes room this once was

A small window to look out of. Behind the door no doubt her entire world. I saw many of thease and I always thaught of what would be more horrific, her glance looking out to us, or the looking inside to what was everything to her.

Hey Lynne, Call me a dumbass, but what is HIPAA? ;-) (I figure it's somthing to do with patient confidentiality)

:-)

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you all r right that is very sad indeed. the whole comment about us looking in to see her whole world, what that must have been like! ugh!

yep the tape on the door does say Ann Hanson, good eyes

to answer Ed's question HIPPA is a patient privacy act, you should sign one each year @ your doctors office, infoming you that your information is not shared with any other facilty without your permission first.And I am sure that Ann Hanson was not able to express this and that makes it a violation of her privacy.

I strongly doubt that a name by itself represents a privacy violation. There are undoubtedly many Ann Hansons in the world. i.e. There is nothing uniquely identifying about the name and no medical history presented.

John Black: true, there are many other people with this name I was just making an example of how privacy issues are handled very differently these days, posting names on doors is a big no no where I work 8-)

I would have hated to stay in one of those rooms :o/

I was in a partial day program at the hospital . Everyone 's name is listed by there first name only and if there are 2 people with the same first name last inastal sp. As long as they done release personal information about u.

Someone's name being posted throughout a facility such as this is not a violation of there privacy (or HIPAA). Any PHI (protected health information) that is to be thrown out must be shredded or otherwise destroyed. The facility that I work at never seems to stop giving us training with HIPAA.

That's eerie. I wrote a poem about it. This place is eerily beautiful in a broken, sick sort of way. I think I'm obsessed.

the last name is not hansen, i don't think. i believe it's Hamslin. the first name might be Anne or Ann, that i can't really see. but i think the last name's right.

I think it say's Ann Hanslin, I did a search and it fits. Still very sad

creeeepy.
-shudders-
for some reson, im now thinking of garry glitter....

makes it all to real that *crazy* people actually lived there. not to mention the horrible things they did to them.

Crazy people and the people who did horrible things to 'em! =8-o

People with psychiatric issues don't generally prefer to be called "crazy" unless they say it about themselves to someone who "gets it", and the majority of people who work with folks with psychiatric issues are not abusive torturers.

[sigh . . . . . . ]

is this like a movie or like WHAT?!

Thanks Lynne for stepping in on the "crazy" label.

You are very right. If someone is going to use this label on me (as a mentally ill person), they need to have earned that right by their awareness of what I deal with every minute of my life. This is a person who is respectful, supportive, and accepting. They are also individuals who "get it" by knowing that they never truly will fully "get" the personal mental illness experience.

Thanks again Lynne,
From a Random "CRAZY" Person Living in the Age of Deinstitutionalization

P.S.
As an individual that has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals over the past decade... please know that the majority of staff members are individuals who are trying the best they can to help the patient in a difficult situation.

I've been in a small part of Danvers and it's quite a scry and magnifecent expirience. Sad it's being torn down.....

Imagine the screams that echoed from that room. In fear that her voices would kill her. Fearing the "shocks". Destroying everything in her life in one fatal swoop, her world had ended.

The name is Ann Hanslin. I enlarged the photo and changed the contrast around until i could read it.

For anyone who wants a closer look at the name: http://i113.photobucke...otherside_cp/Ann.jpg

I wonder why she was put in the hospital

No doubt she was put there due to some sort of psychiatric illness.

obviously

Home before dark.

WAT OK U R FREAKING ME OUT

imagining yourself there has never been easier. it's amazing how such a small realistic detail can have this effect on a human's mind.

Amazing

Not that it's not 3 years later (and anyone who was in the original discussion will no doubt never see this)...but the part about HIPAA and names isn't true. I am a Cardiac Monitoring Tech, and down each patient hallway (every 4 rooms or so) of our hospital is a big screen with each room number, patient name, and their heart rhythm/recent vitals. There is no specific "nurses station" any more, just small alcoves with desks between rooms...and so the screen is kind of necessity. Seems like JHACO (the hospital oversight group) would've shut us down long ago if it was indeed a violation of HIPAA.

After I read Project 17 by Laurie Stolarz, I couldn't help but look up what the hospital looked like, and if it was in fact real. As seen here it is. And since I wish to become a film make, I would like to make a film involving this place, and its story. Its sad and scary to think about what it was like to live in this place, but people should know.

I'm writing a book about this place, and was stuck on a character name, but Ann Hanslin is so perfect, I'm so excited!

Yeah, I understand KatPJ, cuz thats exactly what im doin now lol.

Dose any one else see her face or is it just me?

my dad went in this place!!

I used to live in the building infront of this building at centerpoint. We went in the building all the time before it was boarded. We used the gym alot

They could commit you for any number of things back in the day. The line between sanity and madness wasn't very distinct. You can really imagine yourself there pretty easily.. Oh, and VanBuren if you ever get that book written post the name, Id love to read it. These abandoned asylums fascinate me to no end.

I see a face any1 else

I agree with what was said before. I messed with the contrast a bit on my laptop and it says Ann Hansen.

God bless Ann wherever she is.

yea god bless ann
shes happy somewhere
right?

Ann is happy in a new better place than here

The name was still legible..... and for a very good reason!