The firshospitalst Newgate Community Hospital was built in 1675 soon after the community was founded.  This was 76 years before the hospital in Philadelphia was built which to outsiders is the oldest hospital in America.  The hospital only had to cater to a handful of settlers and the Oneidas that trusted white man’s medicine.  But unlike hospitals outsiders went to, the conditions were clean, no one was bled, and leeches remained in the creeks and rivers instead of being applied to wounds. 

For awhile, the biosynthetic infectants were considered all that were needed in the community.  With so many diseases around, preventing death from illness was vitally important.  If someone needed medical assistance, he could always shift to another dimension and receive it. 

One day, a farmer was tending his cattle when a bull gored him.  He was slipping the control harness around his neck and placing the leads on his head when the animal swayed his head, caught the man under the ribs, and tossed him aside.   His wife took her husband after she found him in the barn bleeding on the floor via transporter to where the interdimensional portal was located.  But by then he had lost too much blood and died. 

The founders of the community decided the next day to have the hospital and four transporter facilities, one at each corner of the town’s borders, built so that people could be cared for immediately.  By 1700 there were a dozen transporter substations built in the region for people to physically or by transporter travel to and be transported to the hospital which in the beginning was fairly small. 

There were a dozen biosyns, two doctors, four female nurses, an emergency care facility, a small dining room with a food and beverage synthesizer, a pharmacy, an operating room, eight mediunits to assist in operations, shower and bathroom facilities for the staff, a medical equipment storage room, a supply room, and eight rooms for patients that had bathroom facilities and both a TV and EPU system for entertainment.  Pain bypass units were used to prevent patients from feeling pain and allowed the two doctors and the mediunits to see how the patients were progressing. 

The facilities from the very beginning were practically spotless clean.  Doctors had known for millenniums in many advanced dimensions that germs and infections thrived in filthy conditions and where diseased people were allowed to interact with patients.  The biosyns helped protect the patients from infections.  But for people with broken bones and open wounds, biosyns weren’t going to help.