Before it was CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson, the hospital was St. Joseph's Hospital. You would have to wonder if the workers at St. Joseph’s are fazed by the morgue’s elevator operating on its own, the disembodied voices and moaning heard in the cafeteria, the call buttons going off in unoccupied rooms, and the sounds of running footsteps in the basement.
One former employee tells the tale of a 75-year-old farmer who checked into the hospital with a serious illness. After his third night there, he emerged from his room and told the nurse he had enough and was leaving. She said goodbye and let him walk out the door. About 10 minutes later, a different nurse who had been making rounds announced that the farmer had just died — in his hospital bed.
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