Bethlam Heights Psychiatric Hospital

As with all such facilities, Bethlehem Heights is popularly believed to be a chamber of horrors and was nicknamed “Bedlam Heights” early in its existence. To be sure, it is a place no one would choose to be confined inside, but the facility fulfills an inescapable societal need, and does so to the best of its means. Unfortunately for the hospital, powers and factors far greater than it are aligned against it.
On the list of minor issues is the fact that the hospital’s Austrian-born administrator Dr. Vitus Werdegast too readily fits the popular stereotype of the Teutonic mad scientist. In truth, Dr. Werdegast is a dedicated mental health professional, but the sad reality is he comes off as creepy as Dracula to most of a TV-viewing audience. In addition, city ordinances and states laws make it difficult to involuntarily commit all but the most obviously dangerous. Thus, many mentally ill people in need of care don’t receive it, and the public widely assumes “Bedlam Heights” is simply living up to its name.
To add to its problems, the facility itself is ill-equipped to deal with the influx of mentally unbalanced stormers, who are dangerously deranged even under the provisions of Emerald City’s strict standards. Werdegast and his staff are handling the situation as best they can, but in the meantime berserk stormers breaking out remains an alarmingly common occurrence.

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Hospital