After the first visit, we explored more of the building, but thanks to vandals, the owners deadbolted the east wing from access. The hospital was in even worse shape with fire damage, flooding, leakage, scrappers, etc. I made this video with a 1999 promotional video Tenet Healthcare had made to advertise the hospital I’d found online to show the contrasts between the running state and the state the hospital is in the video.
The hospital opened in 1926 as a health facility for the northern Pasadena community at 2632 E Washington Ave. It began to decline in profit by the early 1990's, and it was sold to Tenet Healthcare in 1997. Tenet poorly managed the building and assets, leading to a decline in patient care and profit. By 2001 Tenet planned to close the hospital despite city officials rejecting the idea because the second nearest urgent care facility was 6 miles away at Huntington Hospital. By January 5th 2002, the owners began phasing out the different services: radiology, cardiology, birth Ward, and finally urgent care. It abrubtly closed on April 5th 2002 at 9:00 PM. In April 2003, Tenet finally sold the property to the City of Pasadena after failing to secure a lender to renovate or demolish the hospital, no buyer opted to purchase the outdated facility and the property went up for auction numerous times until 2008 when the property was sold to an Equity Firm who promptly sold the untouched property to Caltech in 2010. Much of the interior furnishings remained until 2010 when Caltech purchased the property and auctioned off most the furnishings. Caltech later had no plans for development in the Hospital and sold the property in 2012 to the City of Pasadena. Unable to decide what to reuse the property for, the hospital sits deserted to this day. Vandals began breaking in, trashing the hallways, spraying graffiti on the walls, and traces of drugs and bullet holes can be found. The roof also leaked due to scrappers removing piping leading the rainwater and still-running water to leak into the ceilings and floors creating warped linoleum and walls to bend or crack altogether. During this visit on January 29th, 2017 we noticed that there was much more damage to the structure itself and to the equipment, and the eastern wing was bolted shut due to vandals and scrappers. On February 6, 2017, vandals set fire to the lower levels forcing the LACFD to condemn the building.
**UPDATE 11/14/18**
The building has since been further gutted and further boarded up by the city to keep the vandals and drug dealers out, numerous property crimes involving scrappers, vandals and thieves subsequently spurred the City Of Pasadena to enforce security around the hospital more thoroughly, it is believed that all utilities have been shut off and the remaining medical equipment and furnishings have been removed. The Graffiti is extensive and much more visible all over the hospital once vandals began to find more entrances, fire damage is also very evident in more spots than we’d seen the first time.
Fun facts!
- Alex received 3 stitches at St Luke's in August of 2001 after a head Injury
- The hospital is still usable as a filming location and has been used in major films, music videos, and shows like Emergency!, To live and die in LA, Terminator 2, One Finger & a Fist By Drowning Pool, and San Andreas, and most recently Straight Outta Compton.
FYI: mason says "schick" at 7:20 because he noticed a disused razor and thought it'd be funny to mess with the censor.
Language edited for family viewing
Music: Bad Omen, Good Mourning/Black Friday, Looking Down the Cross All by Megadeth.
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