New New York Hospital

The New New York Hospital was a hospital near to the city of New New York, on planet New Earth, run by the Sisters of Plenitude.

Appearance
The New New York Hospital was clearly identifiable by its white colour scheme, distinctive sail-like shape, and the green crescents on the structure - a universal symbol for hospitals.

Inside the hospital's tall, gleaming complex were wards and areas for surgery, post-op and nano-dentistry. There was also a Pleasure Gardens area which required identification cards to access; it was forbidden to take cuttings from the Gardens. The Tenth Doctor complained of the fact that unlike other hospitals, this particular one didn't have a little shop.

One of the more luxurious wards was Ward 26, where ambient temperatures were kept at fourteen degrees cohezic to promote an atmosphere of healing and well-being.

The secret to the Hospital's astonishing success rate lay in its intensive care unit: a vast, hidden and sterile chamber accessed behind a computer terminal outside Ward 26. In stark contrast to the pristine white of the Hospital's wards, the interior of Intensive Care was dark and industrial, serving only as a breeding farm for human plague carriers, which the Sisters referred to as "the Flesh". Held individually in the thousands of green cells lining the area's walls and gantries, the specially bred "patients" were fed through tubes and subjected to a top-up of bacteria and viruses every ten minutes, as well as a regular blood-wash. When the Flesh were discovered in the year 5,000,000,023, the Hospital was closed down and the Sisters of Plenitude was dissolved by the New New York Police Department.

Inside the Hospital's dilapidated basement at that time lived Lady Cassandra O'Brien and her half-life clone, Chip, who sustained her with various IV drips and medicines stolen from the hospital upstairs. The room also had a console from which Chip operated Cassandra's metal spiders on the planet's surface, and an antiquated 20th century film projector, which Cassandra used to relive her youth. Cassandra's illegal psychograft machine was constructed around the doorway, complete with energy restraints which she used to trap Rose Tyler and possess her body. There was also a convex mirror handy, and a maintenance ladder at the back of the dungeon leading up into an abandoned lift shaft. (TV: New Earth)

Staff, technology and patients
Among the Sisters of Plenitude staffing the Hospital were Matron Casp, Sister Jatt, Sister Corvin and Novice Hame. The Sisterhood's motto was "Hope, harmony, and health", which was broadcast regularly on the building's PA system, along with other announcements. The lifts in the Hospital were voice-activated, and visitors underwent an automatic three-stage disinfection process while traveling between floors.

Patients at the Hospital included the Face of Boe, the Duke of Manhattan, an unnamed patient suffering from Hawtrey's Syndrome and a number of new humans. (TV: New Earth)

History
Twenty-three years after her failed attempt to take the aliens on Platform One hostage for ransom, Cassandra came to the hospital, stowing away with the Face of Boe. Presumably through Chip, or her spiders, she discovered the Intensive Care Unit, and planned to expose it to the wider universe.

The Tenth Doctor initially came to New Earth of his own volition, but was summoned to the Hospital by the Face of Boe. At the hospital, the Doctor got separated from Rose; he went upstairs to meet the Face, whilst she was brought downstairs to Cassandra. Cassandra took over Rose's body, and reunited with the Doctor. He was astounded to see that the Sisters had cures for virtually every disease in the galaxy, beyond old age. The overt flirtatious nature of the possessed Rose confused him, but he was unaware of what had actually happened.

The Doctor and Rose eventually made their way to the Intensive Care Unit, which revealed the truth behind the hospital's cure rate.