Heimlich Hospital

Klaus Baudelaire: I've never liked hospitals.

Violet Baudelaire: Well, technically it's half a hospital.

Heimlich Hospital is the main setting in The Hostile Hospital and served as the Baudelaire orphans' temporary home while they were on-the-run as criminals. It is located in the Hinterlands, the middle of nowhere, as opposed to a logical place like in the City.

Due to the nature of the series, the hospital naturally plays on real fears that people have of health care facilities such as inadequate care and medical malpractice. To add insult to injury, hospital is known to suffer from budget cutbacks.^[1] ^[2] Furthermore, the series is set in a time period where people lack common sense and medicine is extremely experimental; for example, doctors assume that chopping off someone's head can cure their mental health.

One half of the building was finished and the other remained an unfinished frame. It is unknown if this is simply because the hospital is in development, or if it ran out of funding during construction. The strange names of medical wards in the hospital demonstrate that it is ridiculously unorganized.

Structure

The Finished Half

The finished half of Heimlich Hospital was a beautiful building that contained every commodity that an average hospital contains. It was where many of the licensed doctors, nurses, surgeons, and other staff employed at the hospital performed their duties.

Supply Closet

The supply closets contain alphabet soup, rubber bands, doctors' coats, as well as a sink. In The Hostile Hospital, Klaus and Sunny hide in one of the closets and use the lab coats to disguise themselves as doctors. Later, the Baudelaire siblings hide in another supply closet from the person who looks like neither a man or a woman while the fire rages through the hospital.

Wards

HospitalHall — A hallway showing some wards.

Plague Ward
Sore Throat Ward
Broken Neck Ward
Ward for People with Nasty Rashes
Pneumonia Ward
Surgical Ward
Ear Ward
Stubbed Toe Ward
Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn't Have Ward

Some wards are seen only in the TV series:

Coughing Up Bile
Wart Burning
Ugly Skin Tags
Pee in a Cup Ward
Deadly Snake Bites
Maternity

The Unfinished Half

The Unfinished Half of Heimlich Hospital is nothing more than a wooden frame. During the events of The Hostile Hospital, the Baudelaire children slept in this part of the hospital.

Library of Records

LibraryFine — The Library of Records in the TV series.

Main article: Library of Records

The Library of Records was located in the basement, housing information from all over the area. The library had two rooms, with a small antechamber with a bowl of fruit preceding the large filing room, which itself was filled with rows of locked filing cabinets. The ceiling was low and each aisle of cabinets was only big enough to walk single file. Records were deposited through a chute into the room and then filed away by the recordkeeper, Hal.

The library was set on fire by Esmé Squalor and Count Olaf. The fire then proceeded to spread to the rest of the hospital, eventually burning the entire building to the ground. Afterward, Dewey Denouement's partner (Kit Snicket) went to gather the remnants of the records for the Hotel Denouement and discovered Hal, bringing him back to the Hotel.

Possible V.F.D. connection

While it was never stated in the The Hostile Hospital, in Lemony Snicket's autobiography, Kit Snicket mentions that both the Library of Records and Dr. Montgomery's house were secured places that contained information. This could mean that the hospital was originally founded by V.F.D., but they had left it half-finished; or a volunteer owned the hospital and added the library. Another possibility is that a volunteer could be hiding something in the hospital and didn't want anyone to come looking for it so they put it where most people would not think to look.

In the TV series, the Sugar Bowl was found there and later retrieved.

The Baudelaires discovered 1 page of the Snicket File here.

Known employees

Babs - Head of Human Resources (possibly killed by Count Olaf)
Hal - Record Keeper
Volunteers Fighting Disease

Known patients

Mentioned in the book:

Emma Bovary (patient with food poisoning)
Jonah Mapple (patient with seasickness)
Clarissa Dalloway (patient who did not seem to have anything wrong with her but was staring sadly out the window)
Cynthia Vane (patient with toothache)
Charley Anderson (patient who injured himself in an accident)
Bernard Rieux (patient in Plague Ward with a cough)

Anagrams of actual people:

Laura V. Bleediotie (formerly) - Violet Baudelaire
Carrie E. Abelabudite - Beatrice Baudelaire
Al Brisnow - Lisa Brown
Eriq Bluthetts - Brett Helquist
Lisa N. Lootnday - Alison Donalty
Linda Rhaldeen - Daniel Handler
Monty Kensicle - Lemony Snicket
Ned H. Rirger - Red Herring
Ruth Dercroump - Rupert Murdoch

Mentioned in the TV series:

Anthony V. Beveldwuge - 567/88875 - Stubbed Toe - 201
Barney N. Dolfners - 456/63453 - Accidentally Swallowed Something you Shouldn’t Have - 202
- Anagram of Barry Sonnenfeld
Bernard Roovoo - 06/5886936 - Plague - 105
Bridget B
Buzz Abatania - 653/87754 - Cyst Removal - 204
Cynthia Glass - 07/753421 - Sore Throat - 205
- A character from Daniel Handler's Watch Your Mouth book
- Later transferred to room 123
Daisi Bellet - 436/2543 - Wart Burning - 301
Fio Wino-Graivi - 4754/6563 - Stepped on Nail - 307
- Anagram of Virginia Woolf
Glen Hive VII - 924/08765 - Colon Corridor - 405
Grant Whirbi - 09/52653 - Nasty Rash - 406
Les Roma - 23/076564 - Pricked Finger - 510
- Anagram of Rose Lam
Midge Grilsi - 56/972434 - Leprosy - 515
Raina H. Deldeln - 869/976533 - Broken Neck
Raj Cotze - 009/635 - Ugly Skin Tags
Sarah Crinkletip - 6753/645 - Nose Bleed
Suzy U. Goin - 095/45653 - Sprained Left Ankles
Laura V. Bleediotie - 9234/76224 - Runny Nose
- Anagram of Violet Baudelaire
Eric Petrie - 565/786r3 - Pricked Finger
Ariel Carefoot - 4567/88875 - Stubbed Toe - 5641
- Key production assistant on the show
Rob Amar - 6/63454 - Ugly Skin Tags - 643
- Assistant location manager on the show
Steven Stiller - 3/5886936 - Plague - 67
- Production assistant on the show
Greg Choi - 436/2543 - Wart Burning - 761
Rita Ciccozzi - 15454/6563 - Stepped on a Nail - 307
- Makeup designer on the show
Tanya Hudson - 54/08766 - Nasty Rash - 709
- Assistant makeup artist on the show
Krista Seller - 09/52653 - Nasty Rash - 365
- Makeup artist on the show
Bill Terezakis - 23/07665564 - Pricked Finger - 243
- Special makeup effects designer on the show
Sheila Erdmann - 56/972434 - Leprosy - 515
- Makeup fx office assistant on the show
Caitlin Groves - 269/91533 - Broken Neck - 243
- Makeup artist on the show
John Wilcox - 009/635 - Ugly Skin Tags - 11
- Key scenic artist / paint coordinator on the show
(An)dy Mackenzie - 6753/645 - Nasty Rash - 241
(Sa)ndra Prehara - 345/48653 - Sprained Left Ankles - 834
Claire Sproule - 567/564 - Runny Nose - 63
Todd Tedeschini - 7652/4 - Pricked Finger
Trevor King - 0635…