The main thing you need to understand is that this place is normal. Patients are arranged based on two things, risk assessment and which wing of the hospital they are receiving treatment in. The west wing of Sunnyvale is mainly for patients with Alzheimer's and Dementia, although we do occasionally get a few bi-polar and PTSD patients. The nurses here are mostly responsible for memory care. But more on that later. The north wing of the institute is for the treatment of terminal illnesses like cancer or tuberculosis. The nurses an doctors here take care of all the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. The first and second floors o the north wing are for the patients that are responding well to treatment and are expected to make a recovery and be discharged sometime in the near future. The third floor is fo those who are still having adverse reactions to treatment and the forth floor is for the patients on life support or in a coma or only have a limited time left before they pass. The south wing of the hospital is for wound care and rehab. Mostly war veterans and diabetic patients that have injuries or amputations. The doctors in the south wing do many various things like stitching up wounds and measuring some of the patients for prosthetic limbs. While the nurses typically change the wound dressings and assist with physical therapy. Then finally the east wing of the hospital, which is for those patients who receive residential care, and have no one on the outside to take care of them, mainly people who cant take care of themselves for their day-to-day needs. We call them permanents, because they will likely never be discharged or go home again.
Then of course is the basement, all of the big equipment is down there. Standard CT scanner, MRI machine, phlebotomy testing lab, X-ray room, morgue, and access to the employee parking area. The Basement also has several storage rooms for patient belongings, extra blankets and pillows, and other general stock items for the hospital. There is also three operating rooms, and two staff rooms.
About a year ago the hospital started to make an expansion in the basement, saying it was to extend the labs and the underground parking area. But it was never finished due to a lack of funding. About 6 months later a high security door was added, and some of the higher-ups in the hospital began moving large amounts of equipment in the room. Everyone just assumed that the hospital received a loan with the premise of fixing the broken equipment from other hospitals until it's paid off. Why? Well that's what we were told, and it seemed pretty reasonable so no one has questioned it since.
It is a little bit strange that a massive underground room, about half the size of a pro football field, in a hospital doesn't have windows but we were told that adding windows at this time would make it structurally unsound resulting in possible collapse, so we stopped asking questions.
Other than that Sunnyvale is completely normal. All the patients are given the best care, good rooms, great food, and all the comforts of home. Doctors and nurses are always present within the hospital. We have great security staff who are always kind to the patients and their families. Three indoor pools, a beautiful garden, and several recreational areas throughout the hospital. We at Sunnyvale try our best to ensure that everyone is happy, healthy, and safe. In the whole 50 years, that this facility has operated, we have never misplaced or lost a patient. Well, until two months ago.
The first time someone went missing was actually a body in the morgue. A permanent had passed away of natural causes, aka old age, his name was Edward and he was one hundred and four years old. He had no family outside, but due to his 50-year stay in our hospital his funeral was paid for with his insurance, and would have been carried out the following day at the local cemetery had his body not gone missing. No one thought much about it, everyone thought that his body was claimed by an obscure relative or a scientific research lab of some sort. The first living patient that disappeared was a terminal cancer patient from the fourth floor, her name was Mary and she was 72 years old. A few days prior to her vanishing, she was told she only had 2 months left to live. The night of her incident she apparently stole a set of scrubs and a nurse's key card, Mary attempted to escape via the stairwell. Camera footage shows her get to the first floor and disappear in a blind spot in the stairwell. All that was found was the scrubs and key card but no Mary. We all assumed that she changed into a new disguise and left the hospital to live out the remaining time she had, at a place she felt at peace. The third person who went missing, you have already heard of, Miss Edna from room 304 in the west wing. Edna was a 67 year-old woman with dementia, she had been in Sunnyvale for 5 years before her disappearance. Her only family was her 23 year-old granddaughter named Emily. Emily was a college student and would spend her weekends with Edna in the hospital studying for exams. There was one month of time between Edward and Mary's disappearances. Two weeks between the vanishing of Mary and Edna. It has been a full two weeks since Edna went missing, and exactly 2 months since Edward's body disappeared from the morgue...