The Strange History of Port Charles, Way Before General Hospital began

by slapstick.genius

A tribute to Both The Simpsons and General Hospital as well as being the latter's really awkward, bloody prequel.

5. How Shady Brook got modernised

From 1954 to 1959, a year after the current General Hospital's opening, The Shady Brook Sanatorium expanded with the construction of a psychiatric hospital sitting next to it. Named Shady Brook Psychiatric Hospital, it opened in 1960 to the delight of many mentally ill humans living in Port Charles.

Now better known than the Shady Brook Sanatorium, the Shady Brook Psychiatric Hospital was rated primarily positively by sympathisers, who praised it for its calm atmosphere but criticised it for its disheartening methods. Unlike the sanatorium, which is large, it is a small but spacious building.

Thankfully, many come and go, but it is primarily humans with the most disturbing family histories and the most glaring of evolutionary mechanisms gone awry who are the Shady Brook Psychiatric Hospital's permanent residents.