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(Capcom's primary storyline)

Raccoon General Hospital, also known as Raccoon City Hospital was a medical practice in the midwestern town of Raccoon City, located in the northern side, close to the St. Michael Clock Tower and Raccoon Park.^[1] While not the only hospital in the area, it was certainly the city's main practice, and the only one known to be in operation at the time of the crises.

History

The general hospital was built in 1992 as part of Umbrella's expansion in Raccoon City with Mayor Michael Warren's "Bright Raccoon 21" regeneration project.^[2] Having made a secret deal with the hospital director, Ethan, Umbrella was able to run a private laboratory on level B2F.^[3] Though newspapers did report on bribes from a pharmaceutical company, the existence of the lab does not appear to have been known. To keep the locations of Umbrella's facilities a secret, subterranean travel was used in the event of a committee meeting and, in the case of the hospital, a representative of the lab was expected to take a boat along the sewers.^[4]

In September 1998, the t-Virus began making its way into Raccoon City through unknown channels. The Umbrella team took note of a species of leech mutated to large proportions by the t-Virus in the sewers.^[5] These leeches were themselves the offspring of a much larger, Giant Leech. Over the course of the month, the hospital took in patients suffering from symptoms of t-Virus infection, with the increasing numbers already being noticed by 10 September after the hospital director, Ethan, made note of patients' deterioration.^[6] More patients arrived on 18 September, though the medical staff remained hopeful a treatment could be found.^[6]

LeechManLeechMan — The first Leech Man attacks Hersh.

Things finally took a turn for the worst following the pollution of the Victory Lake reservoir on 23 September, which infected citizens that drank tap-water. The hospital was placed on lockdown, and shutters were lowered on the ground floor, and the stairwell above 2F was totally cut off. The hospital staff continued to work on a treatment while the city came down on them and their building became progressively less safe. To aid in their vaccine research, several Hunter γ B.O.W.s were successfully captured and placed in storage on level B3F. While the staff were ultimately successful in creating a t-Virus vaccine, the situation had deteriorated to such an extent no one was left to use it.^[7] Ethan himself perished on 26 September as Zombies invaded the doctors' station.^[6]

As the hospital fell, a helicopter attempted to pick up refugees from the rooftop, but many people were critically wounded or killed along the way, with a number of bodies lying at the 2F passage. Zombified patients were not the only threat to refugees, however; the leech colony had by this point exploded and began attacking survivors, using their bodies as both a source of sustenance and a vehicle for further attacks.^[8] Surviving staff on floor 3F huddled together at the Nurses' center, but eventually lost to the mutants, among whom Dr. Scott Jones. Dr. Hersh aided a group of survivors stranded on the floor by restoring power, but was soon-after attacked by the leeches that smelt his injured hand.^[3] This group of survivors, among whom Yoko Suzuki, made their way down into level B2F where they killed Dr. Hersh and his leech controllers, and later the Giant Leech as they made their escape through the sewers towards the NEST.

In the days that followed, the ground floor of the hospital was taken over by a pack of Hunter β, who killed several Delta Force soldiers to maintain that control. In the early hours of 1 October, Umbrella Monitors Sgt. Nikolai Zinoviev and Tyrell Patrick entered the hospital, after Umbrella became aware of the hospital employees' research, and each received orders to destroy the hospital. They were soon followed by Cpl. Carlos Oliveira, who needed the vaccine to treat S.T.A.R.S. officer Jill Valentine. Cpl. Oliveira narrowly escaped the hospital with the vaccine as Sgt. Zinoviev destroyed it with C-4 charges.^[9]

Architecture

Vlcsnap-2013-12-18-09h37m02s116 — Kevin in one of the narrow corridors.

The building itself is four stories and has a dull sign on its roof that reads 'Raccoon Hospital'; it shows obvious signs of age with the metal signs having lucid rust marks and the brick work taking on an unnatural dirty pallor. It is composed of three buildings: the right wing, the left wing and the central building. The right and left wings would have been used to house patients whilst the central building was for offices and receptions.

Its interior was full of narrow hallways. There was only one small elevator and one staircase connecting the stories. The first basement room had a morgue, an elevator control room and a liquid waste disposal area. B2 Floor had a laboratory and a passage to the sewers. B3F is where some of Umbrella's B.O.W.s were housed, along with a chemical synthesizer necessary to make one of the three t-Virus vaccines produced before the Sterilization Operation that destroyed the city.

The hospital's known interior consists of the following rooms and places (36 overall):

Personnel

Below is a list of known Personnel that worked at the Hospital.

Name	Role	Status
Ethan	Hospital Director	Deceased, September 26
Hersh	Doctor	Deceased, September 26
George Hamilton	Doctor	Alive
Robert	Doctor	Deceased
Howard	Doctor	Deceased
Scott Jones	Doctor	Deceased
Isaac	Doctor	Deceased
Keith	Doctor	Deceased
Kathy	Nurse	Deceased
Elena	Nurse	Deceased

Gallery

Sources

↑ Resident Evil Archives city map
↑ Resident Evil Archives, page 297
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), level: "The Hive". Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "hive" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), file: "Researcher's Diary".
↑ Resident Evil Outbreak (2002), file: "Investigation Request".
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), file: "Director's Diary".
↑ Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura.
↑ Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), file: "Male Nurse's Diary".
↑ Resident Evil 3: Nenesis (1999), scene: "Hospital Scene"

[1] Resident Evil Archives city map

[2] Resident Evil Archives, page 297

[hive-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), level: "The Hive". Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "hive" defined multiple times with different content

[4] Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), file: "Researcher's Diary".

[report-5] Resident Evil Outbreak (2002), file: "Investigation Request".

[director-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), file: "Director's Diary".

[7] Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura.

[diary-8] Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), file: "Male Nurse's Diary".

[9] Resident Evil 3: Nenesis (1999), scene: "Hospital Scene"

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 ==History==
-The general hospital was built in [[1992]] as part of [[Umbrella Corporation|Umbrella]]'s expansion in Raccoon City with Mayor [[Michael Warren]]'s "[[Bright Raccoon 21]]" regeneration project.<ref>''Resident Evil Archives'', page 297</ref> The corporation took control of the basement levels, using them for viral research; [[B.O.W.]] development and other acts.<ref name="RE3">''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' (1999)</ref><ref name="hive">''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' (2003), level: "[[The Hive (scenario)|The Hive]]"</ref>
+The general hospital was built in [[1992]] as part of [[Umbrella Corporation|Umbrella]]'s expansion in Raccoon City with Mayor [[Michael Warren]]'s "[[Bright Raccoon 21]]" regeneration project.<ref>''Resident Evil Archives'', page 297</ref> Having made a secret deal with the hospital director, [[Ethan (doctor)|Ethan]], Umbrella was able to run a private laboratory on level B2F.<ref name="hive">''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' (2003), level: "[[The Hive (scenario)|The Hive]]".</ref> Though newspapers did report on bribes from a pharmaceutical company, the existence of the lab does not appear to have been known. To keep the locations of Umbrella's facilities a secret, subterranean travel was used in the event of a committee meeting and, in the case of the hospital, a representative of the lab was expected to take a boat along the sewers.<ref>''Resident Evil Outbreak'' (2003), file: "[[Researcher's Diary]]".</ref>
-After the effects of the [[Mansion Incident]] reached the city, a colony of [[leech]]es in the [[sewers]] was infected by the [[t-Virus]],<ref name="report">''[[Resident Evil 0]]'' (2002), file: "[[Investigation Request]]".</ref> and posed a threat to Umbrella researchers using the sewers to attend their meetings with Dr. [[William Birkin]].<ref>''Resident Evil Outbreak'' (2003), file: "[[Researcher's Diary]]".</ref>
+In September 1998, the [[t-Virus]] began making its way into Raccoon City through unknown channels. The Umbrella team took note of a species of leech mutated to large proportions by the t-Virus in the sewers.<ref name="report">''Resident Evil Outbreak'' (2002), file: "[[Investigation Request]]".</ref> These leeches were themselves the offspring of a much larger, Giant Leech. Over the course of the month, the hospital took in patients suffering from symptoms of t-Virus infection, with the increasing numbers already being noticed by 10 September after the hospital director, Ethan, made note of patients' deterioration.<ref name="director">''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'' (1999), file: "[[Director's Diary]]".</ref> More patients arrived on 18 September, though the medical staff remained hopeful a treatment could be found.<ref name="director" />
 [[File:LeechManLeechMan.png|thumb|220x220px|The first Leech Man attacks Hersh.]]
+Things finally took a turn for the worst following the pollution of the [[Victory Lake]] reservoir on 23 September, which infected citizens that drank tap-water. The hospital was placed on lockdown, and shutters were lowered on the ground floor, and the stairwell above 2F was totally cut off. The hospital staff continued to work on a treatment while the city came down on them and their building became progressively less safe. To aid in their vaccine research, several [[Hunter γ]] B.O.W.s were successfully captured and placed in storage on level B3F. While the staff were ultimately successful in creating a t-Virus vaccine, the situation had deteriorated to such an extent no one was left to use it.<ref>[[Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura]].</ref> Ethan himself perished on 26 September as Zombies invaded the [[Raccoon General Hospital/Doctors' station|doctors' station]].<ref name="director" />
-The earliest known instance of the hospital's involvement with the t-Virus was some time before September 10, after the hospital's director, [[Ethan (doctor)|Ethan]] made note of the deteriorating condition of people infected with the virus.<ref name="director">''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'' (1999), file: "[[Director's Diary]]".</ref> No matter what treatments and safety protocols the hospital tried to use, they could not contain the outbreak. On September 18, another patient was admitted with the disease.<ref name="director" /> The morale amongst the hospital staff was still relatively high, with the director adamant that even if he were to die from the virus, his medical charts could prove useful for someone trying to find a cure.<ref name="director" />
+As the hospital fell, a helicopter attempted to pick up refugees from the rooftop, but many people were critically wounded or killed along the way, with a number of bodies lying at the [[Raccoon General Hospital/2F passage|2F passage]]. Zombified patients were not the only threat to refugees, however; the leech colony had by this point exploded and began attacking survivors, using their bodies as both a source of sustenance and a vehicle for further attacks.<ref name="diary">''Resident Evil Outbreak'' (2003), file: "[[Male Nurse's Diary]]".</ref> Surviving staff on floor 3F huddled together at the [[Raccoon General Hospital/Nurses' center|Nurses' center]], but eventually lost to the mutants, among whom Dr. [[Scott Jones]]. Dr. Hersh aided a group of survivors stranded on the floor by restoring power, but was soon-after attacked by the leeches that smelt his injured hand.<ref name="hive">''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' (2003), level: "[[The Hive (scenario)|The Hive]]"</ref> This group of survivors, among whom Yoko Suzuki, made their way down into level B2F where they killed Dr. Hersh and his leech controllers, and later the Giant Leech as they made their escape through the sewers towards the [[NEST]].
-It was also that around this time, the leech colony began to move into the upper levels of the hospital.<ref name="hive" /><ref name="diary">''Resident Evil Outbreak'' (2003), file: "[[Male Nurse's Diary]]".</ref> Some of these leeches themselves merged into a humanoid form comparable to the "mimicry marcus" encountered by t-infected leeches in July.<ref name="hive" /><ref name="report" /><ref>''Resident Evil 0'' (2003).</ref>
+In the days that followed, the ground floor of the hospital was taken over by a pack of [[Hunter β]], who killed several Delta Force soldiers to maintain that control. In the early hours of 1 October, Umbrella Monitors Sgt. Nikolai Zinoviev and Tyrell Patrick entered the hospital, after Umbrella became aware of the hospital employees' research, and each received orders to destroy the hospital. They were soon followed by Cpl. Carlos Oliveira, who needed the vaccine to treat S.T.A.R.S. officer Jill Valentine. Cpl. Oliveira narrowly escaped the hospital with the vaccine as Sgt. Zinoviev destroyed it with C-4 charges.<ref>''Resident Evil 3: Nenesis'' (1999), scene: "[[Hospital Scene]]"</ref>
-[[File:505.jpg|thumb|left|Front of Raccoon General Hospital. Carlos is on its way to find the t-Virus vaccine.]]
-On September 26, the [[zombies]] proved too much to contain, and even locking down entire wings proved fruitless, as the number of infected patients turning into zombies grew.<ref name="hive" /> Many of the surviving hospital staff and non-t-Virus-infected patients were killed by the zombies at this point, and the director himself soon succumbed to the virus.<ref name="director" />
-It was at around this time that a group of survivors from [[Jack's Bar]] including [[Yoko Suzuki]] went to the hospital in search of shelter and medicinal supplies, perhaps seeking to take advantage of the city's collapse to raid what they could. The infected leeches had already swarmed over a doctor, attaching themselves to his skin and apparently controlling him. After restoring the elevator power, [[Hersh|Dr. Hersh]] was attacked by the leeches, which abandoned the previous body and transformed him into another [[Leech Zombie]]. The survivors baited the thing with a blood pack inside a fixed temperature lab, where they raised the temperature to approximately 85 degrees, killing the leeches. The survivors soon abandoned the hospital after killing a [[Giant Leech|giant queen leech]] and using a boat in the sewers to escape to the [[Raccoon City Underground Laboratory|underground laboratory]] some eight miles (12.8 kilometers) north-west of the city center.<ref name="hive" />
-[[File:R40B01.JPG|thumb|left|The Raccoon Hospital Umbrella Lab.]]
-Sometime after this, a U.S. Army special forces unit made its way into the hospital, only to be killed by the [[Hunter β]], which had occupied the hospital since the survivors' departure.
-[[File:RGH END.png|thumb|220x220px|The Hospital's destruction.]]
-The hospital was abandoned until October 1, when three [[Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service|UBCS]] mercenaries explored the area - [[Carlos Oliveira]] and the [[Monitor Notes|monitors]] [[Nikolai Zinoviev]] and [[Tyrell Patrick]].<ref name="RE3" /> Carlos went over to the hospital to find a t-Virus [[vaccine]] to help [[Jill Valentine]], who had been infected during a confrontation with a [[Tyrant]] known as "[[Nemesis-T Type|the pursuer]]".<ref name="RE3" /> He encountered Tyrell during his search - the monitor was attempting to open a safe, but soon died when the safe was revealed to have been booby trapped.<ref name="RE3" /> After recovering the vaccine and avoiding both Hunter β and [[Hunter γ|γ]]-type B.O.W.s, Carlos departed the hospital; not before he discovered that another person, who he would later learn to have been Nikolai, had planted [[C-4 Explosive|C4 charges]] around the building.<ref name="RE3" /> He escaped just before it was destroyed.<ref>''Resident Evil 3: Nenesis'' (1999), scene: "[[Hospital Scene]]"</ref>
 ==Architecture==
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 *[[Raccoon General Hospital/B3F laboratory|B3F laboratory]]
 {{Col-end}}
+==Personnel==
+Below is a list of known Personnel that worked at the Hospital.
+{| class="article-table article-table-selected" style="width: 500px; height: 500px;" align="left" border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
+! scope="col" |Name
+! scope="col" |Role
+! scope="col" |Status
+|-
+|[[Ethan (doctor)|Ethan]]
+|Hospital Director
+|Deceased, September 26
+|-
+| [[Hersh]]
+| Doctor
+| Deceased, September 26
+|-
+| [[George Hamilton]]
+| Doctor
+| Alive
+|-
+|[[Robert (doctor)|Robert]]
+|Doctor
+|Deceased
+|-
+| [[Howard]]
+| Doctor
+| Deceased
+|-
+| [[Scott Jones]]
+| Doctor
+| Deceased
+|-
+| [[Isaac]]
+| Doctor
+| Deceased
+|-
+| [[Keith]]
+| Doctor
+| Deceased
+|-
+| [[Kathy]]
+| Nurse
+| Deceased
+|-
+| [[Elena]]
+| Nurse
+| Deceased
+|}
+{{Clear}}
 ==Gallery==
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 RGH B2F.png|B2F map
 RGH B3F.png|B3F map
+.jpg|Front of Raccoon General Hospital. Carlos is on its way to find the t-Virus vaccine.
+R40B01.JPG|The B3 lab used to store the Hunters.
+RGH END.png|The Hospital's destruction.
 </gallery>
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