St. Mungo's Founded in late 1500s or early 1600s by Mungo Bonham, St. Mungo's Hospital is the primary (and likely only) wizarding hospital in Britain. Located in an abandoned department store in London, the hospital's Healers treat wizards for all sorts of magic-related illnesses and injuries, and in extreme circumstances has been known to treat Muggles as well. The hospital's logo is a wand and a bone, crossed, and donations are welcome.
The entrance to St. Mungo's is concealed behind an abandoned red-brick London department store called Purge and Dowse, Ltd. on a Muggle street. Unlike, say, the Leaky Cauldron, St. Mungo's is visible to passing Muggles, who merely believe the sign on the front that the store is "Closed for Refurbishment." In the front window, a dummy dressed in outdated styles serves as the gatekeeper; wizards wanting to enter do so by talking to the dummy, and then walking straight through the window.
* Reception area/Accidents and Emergency area: In a reception area filled with rickety wooden chairs and outdated issues of Witch Weekly, visitors are greeted by the Welcome Witch, though her demeanor (at least on busy days) is less than welcoming. This reception area seems to double as a visitors' entrance and an emergency room waiting area, as it is often filled with wizards facing strange ailments, such as hands sprouting out of their chests or steam pouring from their mouths, and Healers clad in uniform lime green robes hurry busily through the room. The receptionist helps anyone who is unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to remember why they are at the Hospital. BL Canon dictates a Floo near the triage area, for visitor/new patient arrivals as well as a small, warded room, little more than a cubbyhole, for the odd emergency case that does not have access to Floo. Staff are forbidden to Apparate into this area.
* Portraits and placards identify Administrative Staff:
Director in Chief of Healing Arts: Norman Skandle Associate director: Hippocrates Smethwyck
Beyond the reception area, St. Mungo's is comprised of six floors.
Dai Llewellyn Ward for Serious Bites (ward 2)(10 beds) Associate Healer: Marvin Flank Orderly
Float:
Second Floor: Spell Damage (Unliftable jinxes, hexes, and incorrectly applied charms, etc, as well as mental illness)
Janus Thickey Ward (long term care ward, where the Longbottoms & Lockhart are)(12 beds)
Healer in charge: Miriam Strout Orderly Orderly
Ward 2 (for short term Spell damage and treatment of mental illnesses. 6 single rooms one one corridor for isolated care. 8 rooms on another hallway that open into common sitting and dining room. These corridors share one staff station.)
Ward 2 (10 beds) Associate Healer: Byron Grant Orderly
Float:
Fifth Floor: Visitor's Tearoom and Hospital Shop Also houses Maintenance and Housekeeping offices, as well as Staff changing room and warded staff Appration point Tea shop attendant: Cecilia Swampgrass Tea shop attendant: Mary O'Hara Hospital shop Attendant: Clara Jackson
Special Circumstances
This unit resides in the basement of the hospital. Access is limited to the direct staff and Healer in Charge, and consists of 10 private rooms that can be secured depending on the complexity or dangerous-ness of the patient in question.
New werewolf bites are monitored here, as well as other injuries considered too risky to be dealt with on the open wards.
The morgue also takes up a portion of this space.
Notes:
-Each floor has a Healer in Charge, which equates to the Physician with that specialty, ie Neurology, Surgery, Psychiatry, etc. This Healer in Charge oversees the care of every patient on the ward.
-The Associate Healers are equivalent to Physicians on staff, without the 'in charge' title. Other Healers may also admit their patients to the appropriate wards, but their care will be assumed by the staff Healers.
-Orderlies are assigned with heavier staffing where the patients need more direct care, and these are people with healing credentials (equivalent to nurses)
-Hit Wizards have reserved beds at St. Mungo's as part of their salary package, and they may be rotated as needed to place an injured HW in the area that is most appropriate for his/her injuries.
-Housekeepers: One per floor, one for common areas, one for float. (total 7)
-Maternity/Nursery: Pregnancy is considered a rather normal condition, not an illness. As such, it is managed by the mother's Healer, and delivery is accomplished at home under said Healer's care. Complications are easily dealt with within the realm of magical healing, ie stopping bleeding, dealing with blood loss, etc. If a pregnant woman needs medical care for another condition, ie a bite or a communicable disease, she will be treated in the appropriate ward. A special ward for mothers and babies does not exist at St. Mungo's.
-Other injuries/maladies- Other injuries that we might go to the hospital for, can normally be dealt with in the realm of magical healing, ie broken bones. Canon states it's much easier to mend bones than to regrow them, so it is assumed that there is a spell for that. Treated at home or a Healer's practice: Bruises, fractures, strains and sprains, headaches, stomach maladies, dehydration, and other like illnesses.
-In and out of the Hospital- Visitors and patients may Floo directly to St. Mungo's via the public Floo located on the ground floor near triage. A tiny room also exists for emergency patient Apparition, although they discourage Apparating with the injured if it can be helped. Staff may Apparate to a warded area on the fifth floor if they so desire.
There is Floo access on each unit as well, although these smaller Floos are not able to transport people. Only items. They are used for communication between staff and other areas, ie Maintenance and the kitchen, located adjacent to the tearoom on the Fifth Floor. They are also used for the delivery of meals and medications between the kitchen/apothecary and the patient-care units.