Heimlich Hospital

Heimlich Hospital is a fictional hospital in The Hostile Hospital, a novel of the series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

The hospital is only half completed, one half being fully functional, and the other half being a wooden frame. Parts of the hospital include an operating theater, a library of records, patient rooms, and supply closets. The supply closets contain a sink, alphabet soup, rubber bands, doctor's coats, surgical masks, and sometimes a window.

Known wards include the "Stubbed Toe Ward", the "Sore Throat Ward", the "Ear Ward", the "Ward for People with Nasty Rashes", the "Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn't Have Ward", the "Plague Ward, and the "Surgical Ward".

Every day, the Volunteers Fighting Disease sing to the patients in the hospital and give them heart-shaped balloons to cheer them up.

The name Heimlich is a reference to Henry Heimlich, an American physician best known for the Heimlich Maneuver.

Heimlich Hospital is burned down by Count Olaf in the The Hostile Hospital.

Lemony Snicket might have been at the hospital on the day it burned down. One name on the list of people in the Surgical Ward (see The Hostile Hospital) is Monty Kensicle, which is an anagram of Lemony Snicket (see Mysterious names and initials). Other names on the list include Linda Rhaldeen and Ned H. Rirger; these names also appear in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. They are anagrams for Daniel Handler and red herring, respectively.

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