Storybrooke General Hospital

"And right upstairs our O.B., Dr. Whale, gives the finest care this side of the fictional alps."

- Regina Mills to Zelena

Storybrooke General Hospital is a Storybrooke location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the first episode of the first season.

Current Patients

 * Captain Nemo
 * Chief
 * First Mate

Former Patients

 * Alexandra
 * Ashley Boyd
 * Belle French
 * David Nolan
 * Dr. Whale


 * Greg Mendell  †
 * Henry Mills
 * Hook
 * Kathryn Nolan
 * Little John


 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Moe French
 * Mr. Hyde †
 * Neal Cassidy †
 * Prince Neal


 * Robin
 * Sidney Glass
 * Zelena

Visitors

 * Archie Hopper
 * Belle French
 * David Nolan
 * Emma Swan
 * Evil Queen (Serum)
 * Henry Mills


 * Hook
 * Isaac Heller
 * Jefferson
 * Kathryn Nolan
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Merry Men


 * Mother Superior
 * Mr. Clark
 * Mr. Gold
 * Regina Mills
 * Robin Hood †
 * Ruby


 * Sean Herman
 * Sheriff Graham †
 * Zelena

Trivia
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On-Screen Notes

 * According to Emma, the hospital is not far from the town line.
 * Belle's cell at the psychiatric ward is the same as the one Zelena lived in. Mr. Hyde is is also imprisoned in this cell.
 * Kathryn and Henry both stay in hospital room R2 42. The same number is in the supply room where Dr. Whale and the others go to discuss the Greg Mendell's situation.
 * Regina uses Henry's birthday, 8/15, as her password to the psychiatric ward.
 * However, by the time Mr. Hyde is imprisoned in the psychiatric ward, Regina's password has been changed to 207.
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Production Notes

 * During an interview in which Edward Kitsis was discussing the big number of doctors that would be featured in Season Six, he joked about feeling the need to create a new spin-off, Storybrooke General.
 * The Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia doubles as the Storybrooke General Hospital on Once Upon a Time. The location has been used in numerous movies and television shows.
 * The same location doubles as the Hancock County Courthouse for the episode "Firebird". If you watch the entrance to the courthouse, you can see that it's a redressed version of the hospital entrance from "The Return".


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Lost

 * The number 23 is on a door by the entrance to the psychiatric ward, while the number 8 is on a door in the hallway inside the psychiatric ward. 8 and 23 are two of the Lost numbers.
 * A sign next to the door that leads down to the psychiatric ward says "Critical Care Pharmacology 108". 108 is an important number on Lost, and the sum of the six recurring numbers.
 * Exposé, a fictitious television series featured on Lost, is advertised on the television Belle is watching in the hospital.
 * When David is talking to Emma at the hospital, the sign on the wall says "Suite 4". 4 is the first Lost number.
 * Regina enters the code 815 when she enters the psychiatric ward, a reference to Oceanic Flight 815.

Popular Culture

 * The Severe Nurse is Nurse Ratched from the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The man sweeping the floor at the psychiatric ward looks like Chief Bromden from the movie of the same name.
 * Issues of the magazines "Oh&S" (Occupational Healthy & Safety Magazine) and "Today's Parent" are sitting on a shelf at the children's ward.
 * The book Zelena is reading at the psychiatric ward is What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff.


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Prop Notes

 * According to a police report at the sheriff's station, Dory Zimmer was admitted to the psychiatric ward due to clinical depression and contemplation of suicide.
 * According to Ava Zimmer's birth certificate, she and her brother Nicholas are supposed to have been born at the hospital. However, that is just a false event created by the curse.

Set Dressing

 * A poster at the hospital shows a picture of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth century Hungarian physician who is now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. The poster says "A history of germ theory - Ignaz Semmelweis".
 * The paintings in the waiting room where Dr. Whale and the others ponder the situation with Greg Mendell are Morning Creekside by American artist Megan Lightell, and Waterlilies by Canadian artist Philip Craig. They are also present in Belle's hospital room.
 * Another copy of Morning Creekside is hanging on the wall in a corridor, Mary Margaret's hospital room and the hospital's waiting area.
 * Both paintings appear in the Portland motel room where Emma and Neal stay.
 * The painting next to Belle's hospital bed is Harbor Glow by Tom Swimm.
 * A framed picture hanging on the wall in Liam's hospital room can also be seen in the hotel room where Emma and Cleo Fox were staying in "Firebird".


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Goofs

 * The date on the monitor screen over Henry's hospital bed is "10 Nov 08", but "Selfless, Brave and True" establishes that the "Pilot" episode takes place in October 2011. ¨
 * The date on the monitor screen over Greg Mendell's bed is also incorrect: It says "04 Jul 09".

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.