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. 

The first Oneida entered the hospital in 1681 when he had a hunting accident and was mauled by a bear that was severely wounded yet able to tear open his chest, arms, legs, and face with his claws.  A Newgater who was with the hunting party transported him to the hospital with his collapsible transporter unit along with a couple of his friends who went to make sure the white people didn’t kill their friend. 

In the emergency room, a doctor and three mediunits attached devices called spiders to the Oneida to bypass blood around the wounds.  They are called spiders because they have eight tubes that attach to arteries and veins to bypass the wounds so they can be dealt with.  The man also had four cracked ribs and a broken right arm which were treated with micromachines that were injected into the areas where the damaged bones were located.  Injections of liquid calcium and other minerals were administered so the micromahines could rebuild the bones. 

Biosynthetic skin was applied to the wounds instead of bandages that might stick to the tissue.  It was almost like natural skin.  But when the new skin grew back under the synthetic material, it would be shed and discarded.  The biosynthetic skin was made from the person’s DNA and cloned plus combined with synthetic material that wasn’t attacked by the immune system.  Cloned skin took about a minute per square inch to grow.  For the Oneida that was mauled by the bear, it took around half an hour to grow and combine the natural with the synthetic skin to cover the wounds. 

After three days in the hospital where the Oneida saw things that most outsiders have never seen like 3-D TV and EPU systems, he was released to go back to his village.  For awhile he was known as the snake man because when the wounds were healed, the synthetic skin was shed. 

The hospital grew and improved.  By 1750, a year before the hospital in Philadelphia opened, the Newgate Community Hospital had 20 doctors, 30 nurses, 60 biosyns, 80 mediunits, a dietitian, 20 synthetics, four operating rooms, ten examination rooms, a pharmacy, a pharmacists, a huge cafeteria with four food and beverage synthesizers, a transporter and interdimensional portal room near the emergency room and entrance, shower and bathroom facilities plus a gym for the staff, a physical therapy room, three medical equipment storage rooms, a general storage facility, a janitor’s closet, a vehicle parking area behind the building, a material fabrication facility, a lab, and 50 rooms for patients.   There was also a large chapel built next to the hospital that could be used by every living soul in the hospital since there is a saying in Newgate.  There are no atheists who shift between dimensions because they all know where Heaven and Hell are. 

The ministers that have served in the chapel have been Nasbith Korall (1715 – 1762), Orvan Faubenshire (1762 – 1822), Maevan Breems the first female chaplain (1822 – 1870), Darvan Narquist (1870 – 1919), Aelia Stemnester the second female chaplain (1919 - 1966), and Bud Green the only outsider to ever be chaplain (1966 – today).   They have mostly been Baptists and have all visited the dimensions adjacent to Heaven and Hell so they will be able to preach with more fervency.  They have even visited with the spirits of people they have dealt with and have even seen each other in the dimension where spirits roam.  It ’s just that once you have served in the chapel when you were alive, you don’t get the chance to be the chaplain after you die.  Only the Missions Department for the Newgate Baptist Temple gives formerly alive employees the chance to work for the organization again.  And then it is only if God allows it to happen since existing in Heaven can be compared to having the choice to live in Hawaii with a million dollars coming to you everyday or live in Siberia as a homeless person during the winter.   

In 1910 when Newgate joined ACE, one of the pieces of technology that was allowed to be brought to help the people in the hospital was the full body manipulation chamber.  It has been nicknamed the coffin because it looks almost like a coffin.  It is nine feet long, three feet wide, and counting the lid three feet thick.  It can adjust to people who are four feet high who weigh 80 pounds to those who are over eight feet high who weigh over 800 pounds. 

When a person enters the coffin he will notice that the mattress is up to the lip of the chamber.  When he lies on it, the mattress will lower and conform to his body for more comfort.  Two small probes will be inserted into the back of his head that will bypass all pain signals that would normally go to the brain and put him to sleep.  This will allow millions of threads, some a centimeter long and as thin as a human hair, and some like the rectal probe that is able to snake its way through the digestive system up to the lips that is 2 millimeters in diameter. 

Micromachines are injected into the body to do internal repairs and to manipulate the DNA to reverse the aging process back to a biological age of between 25 and 35 which are considered by many as the optimum ages.  By 25 a person is considered fully an adult while at 35, many adults still don’t demonstrate medical conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.  They also are considered mature, whether they act that way or not. 

If a person is too heavy, micromachines and probes will melt the fat cells and remove them from the body.  Excess skin will be removed and if a woman feels she needs larger breasts, fat and skin will be moved to the breasts.  If a man is balding, he can choose to have hair implanted on his head and blood to go to the roots. Even those who started going bald before age 25 or had cancer and other ailments before that age can have the physical problems corrected.  That means a man who is 80, racked wth cancer, and weighing 400 pounds can lay down in the device and a few hours later emerge looking like he is 32, free of cancer, and weighing 160.  He may have been 5 foot 7 when he entered.  But when the bones are rebuilt and the spine is readjusted he may be 5 foot 10. 

Most of the micromachines will be removed.  But those that remain will prevent toxic substances from entering the body and will constantly repair any cellular damage.  Even brain cells will be reconstructed or replaced with solidstate implants that are constructed by micromachines.  When that happens, the metabolism of the person will increase since more energy will be required to maintain the brain since it is slowly becoming more synthetic.  Micro-encapsulated nuclear catalysts will be injected into the body to allow the molecules in the substances that are consumed to be broken down atomically to be used as a source of energy for the brain which will require more energy. 

People can also be physically enhanced in the chamber.  Most people in Newgate are telepathic.  But those that aren’t can be made that way in the chamber.  They can also be made stronger, faster, quicker, have more sensitive senses, and sometimes fly by field displacement and circulation.  If they choose to be able to fly, they will have to have their metabolism increased since their physoelectrical field will have to be enhanced so that it can be extended to displace the electromagnetic fields of the world and circulated to allow a person to fly at upwards to 400 mph without being burnt by air friction.  Air coming into the nostrils at such a speed would be extremely painful.  The field that surrounds a person would slow the air to around 40 mph so that flying like Superman would feel like sticking your head out your car window at 40.  But if a person wants to fly to Europe, he had better eat a big meal first or he’s gong to be mighty hungry by the time he lands.  And he better have a passport or else he will be sent back home conventionally. 

The hospital rooms have changed some since the first ones were occupied.  The TVs are now extended 3-D projection sets that can place the images in the room and the EPU system is the advanced telepathic transmission system that can project the programs into the brain without the need for a headset or chamber.  This is important so that people can have their minds occupied while they sleep and during the day when they have nothing to do.  Also, those that have extended stays in the hospital can work on their jobs via EPU and a synthetic that they can control. 

The cost for the typical operation is about 10% of the cost in a hospital on the outside since the hospital has its own legal department.  If a patient feels they didn’t receive proper treatment they can sue the hospital for damages.  But they can only recover the money they would have made if everything had gone well and they had lived a normal life.  If there are extra medical expenses later, they are covered by the hospital which has invested in such things as companies and stocks in other dimensions and has a material synthesizer which can produce precious metals and gems that can be used to purchase things from the outside and other dimensions.   If a patient has insurance he can stay for upwards to two weeks for free.  The hospital issues insurance policies to parents of newborns that cost as little as $10 a month that doesn’t increase in cost until the child is 12.  Then it increases to $20 a month and stays at that rate until the child is independent.  Then the cost “soars” to $25 a month and stays at that price until the person either dies or is rejuvenated.  If a person is rejuvenated, the insurance price is drastically reduced to a $10 a month maintenance policy so that if they need to go to the hospital for any reason, the cost is covered by the policy.  With estimated financial reserves of between 30 and $40 billion, the Newgate Community Hospital is in great shape and can afford to let patients stay in the hospital for only $20 a day.  That is less than one would pay to stay in the Newgate Inn. 

Yet there are some people who die in the hospital as is the case in other hospitals around the world.  Only about one out of 50 don’t leave the hospital alive.  Either they arrive too far gone physically to survive or they don’t want to live any longer.  The infant mortality rate is only about one out of 150.  This is one of the best rates in the world.  With the best post-natal care unit in the world, a newborn with a lot of physical problems can be treated and made whole in a short period of time.  Only the ones with too many problems don’t survive.  Each baby has a DNA sample taken for future referencing for future medical treatment.  This is a practice that hospitals on the outside will someday do on a regular basis.  If a genetic weakness occurs in life, the referenced DNA will allow a micromachine to internally repair the genetic structure of the person or a regular doctor can administer gene therapy. 

The morgue generally isn’t busy.  Mediunits and injected micromachines do a thorough examination of any body down there to discover the cause of death.  That way there is no need to cut open a body and disfigure them.  When a person’s body is released for a funeral, it will look like it did when it died.  This is important for those that belong to religions that forbid mutilation of the body. 

Whether the patient is a newborn or a 200 year-old who looks like he’s 30 coming in for an annual maintenance examination, the Newgate Community Hospital is the one place you want to go for quality medical care for a more than reasonable price.  Even outside insurance companies are willing to foot the bill when they see the costs lower than they were half a century ago in public hospitals on the outside. 

Newgate Community Hospital.  The nation’s oldest hospital that believes in the oldest medical tradition:  Administer the best medical care possible to save lives and make them better.  The hospital in Newgate has been doing that since 1675.  And not a single patient was bled unless he was donating blood or giving a blood sample for testing.