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In 1922, Poveglia’s abandoned hospitals and other structures were converted into an asylum. A nursing home was the final medical facility to open on the island, and in 1968, the last to close.
New Orleans’s Charity Hospital was the site of horrors when Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, Tulane is spending hundreds of millions to help bring it back to life.
Fukushima hospitals were flooded with victims after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Now, 12 years later they sit abandoned, providing a frozen snapshot of what it must have been like.
But there’s more to this hospital closure than the loss of inpatient beds, historians say. It’s also a tale of how hundreds of Black hospitals across the U.S. fell casualty to social progress ...
Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found abandoned in a remote area of San Antonio, officials ...