Mission Statement

"Our mission is to deliver accessible, compassionate, and high-quality healthcare to all members of our community. We are dedicated to improving the health and well-being of those we serve through personalized care, local partnerships, and a commitment to excellence, dignity, and respect."

Vision

"To be a leading community hospital known for innovation, excellence in care, and lifelong learning empowering healthier lives and stronger communities."

Note: Magical Treatment staff must balance arcane methods with modern medicine. All magical interventions must be documented, and cases requiring specialized ritual or high-risk magic must be cleared ICly with Hospital Directors.

Sometime in late 1795, Henry Miller, Agatha Delvaux, Jonah Croft, and Bellatrix Le'Pouf, the founders of Howling Hills establish the first Hospital. Intending to provide the best medical care, the hospital began employing some of the greatest medical pioneers in Europe within a young and growing Colonial United States. Over time, the hospital became a beacon of medical care research for the Colonial States in what would later be New England. One of the hopes is the hospital could bring together supernaturals and the mundane by providing the best care available.

Around 1797, the air shifted. Inexplicably, people begin vanishing. The town takes notice when family members begin disappearing without a trace. The disappearances raise questions from citizens and enforcers of the law. 1798 comes to a head when the hospital starts taking in patients with new, unfamiliar symptoms. Symptoms are noted as veins' darkening, followed by the extremities' darkening at a progressive rate until the entire form is a husk. These symptoms are assumed to be a new and advanced version of the Bubonic Plague. The new plague, now known as Corruption becomes a global threat.

By 1815, the original hospital is converted into an asylum to make way for a new, larger hospital to mitigate the demanding patient load. Immediately, the hospital began to fill as soon as the new hospital opened. As symptoms worsened, resources began to become scarce. Many are sent to the Asylum as a means of quarantine for cases the hospital can no longer handle. Sometime around 1830 or after, the Hospital began noticing the Favored were becoming among the infected. Primarily, through bite marks. Previously, what was known prior, was that the supernatural were the only ones infected. There are no means or methods to treat bites by an Aberration. 

After 1850, the Veil in Howling Hills is installed. The Hospital began seeing a lower patient load a few months after the Veil installation. Life relatively returns and a new normal develops in the months and years following the installation of the Veil. Corruption cases dwindle but still a few here and there a few times a year. Many hospitals around the world have begun working out ways to figure out how to medically treat corruption but to no avail. Resources are limited. Medical treatment is ongoing. Many failures occur within the medical research community. Regardless, supply lines are established after 1930. Hospitals begin to see an increase in resources again. However, the means for treatment are not available.

Sometime after 1980, it was discovered among many organizations, the medical community, and the general public Aberrations dropped a special core. The cores, later known as Aberration Cores hold special properties. The core can enhance magic or be used to craft magical items. Many in the medical community surmise their potential could lead to treatment. There are multiple research attempts over the next several decades without much luck. 

In 2023, a doctor from Hamburg, Germany, and a team of researchers residing in Howling Hills accidentally discovered using the cores could siphon some of the corruption out of bitten victims. Word spreads around the world and other Veiled cities all over the globe begin following suit. Treatment for bitten Aberration victims had been discovered…