The hospital at American Falls

Idaho · United States · Hospital

The building is old enough that call buzzers cannot be reset at the nurses' station. Staff have to walk to the room. The buzzers go off anyway.

The hospital at American Falls, Idaho is also a nursing home, and a great many people have died in it.

The night staff report call buzzers going off.

The detail that makes this worth recording is technical. The building is old enough that the buzzers cannot be reset from the nurses' station. Somebody has to walk to the room and reset it there, which means every single activation is physically confirmed by a member of staff standing in the room it came from.

The buttons have been pressed in the men's and women's lavatories, and in the patient rooms.

An old fashioned call system with no central reset is, without meaning to be, one of the better recording instruments in this archive. A modern panel logs a signal. This one required somebody to walk down the corridor and see for themselves.

The hospital is a working facility.

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Where is The hospital at American Falls located?

The hospital at American Falls is in Idaho, United States.