Our Lady of Hope Hospital

Our Lady of Hope Hospital is located near Vernon Square Station in the ruins of Downtown DC in the Capital Wasteland. It's a good source for medical supplies and explosives, and plays a role in the Reilly's Rangers quest. There are entrances to the hospital from the Square as well as the Dry Sewers. A broadcasting antenna has fallen from the hospital into the Statesman Hotel, and the only way to enter the hotel's upper floors is by crawling over the antenna.

The ground floor has a large number of Super Mutants, including at least 2 Centaurs and 7 Super Mutant Brutes. With the Broken Steel update, you will also encounter a large number of Super Mutant overlords through out the building, most of which wield a tri-beam laser rifle.

The terminal that controls the turret system is located in a room in the North East corner of the hospital lobby.

On the East side of the first floor, there is a locked (average) closet. Unlocking the closet reveals a still-functioning Mister Handy who will proceed to wander the halls and attack centaurs and super mutants, although he will proceed to be quickly killed by them. Also, there are 4 first aid boxes in here, making it worth some of your time.

In the eastern hallway there is an explosive (60 skill) baby carriage at the first ceiling lamp.

In the north end of the building in the cafeteria are several super mutants, as well as several traps, including:
 * Frag Mine next to 4 Fire Extinguishers atop a Gurney,
 * Grenade bouquet in the Women's bathroom rigged off of a tripwire
 * Both bathrooms have Microfusion Cell traps built into one of the cisterns that will zap you if you are to drink from the toilet. Both hold plenty of Microfusion cells.
 * A room on the north east has 2 working computers, the one closest to the door has a tell-tale rotating sensor atop it, using the back plate of it reveals a frag grenade trap. This trap only activates when you use the front of the computer.'
 * On the top stair leading up to the second floor balcony are 2 frag mines (the super mutant will usually detonate these if he runs to attack you)
 * In the staircases several tripwires that activate Grenade bouquets.

Notable Loot

 * Pre-War Book can be found on the counter in the lobby on the first floor
 * There is a D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine in a room at the South East corner of the hospital, 1st level. Look to your right (NW)as you enter the room and it will be on a table next to the radio, below the clock.
 * Another copy of the D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine is on a table in the Cafeteria on the second floor (next to the leaking gas pipe).
 * Many Firehose Nozzles to make some spare Rock-It Launchers.
 * Plenty of stimpaks also available throughout hospital
 * 2 Sugar Bombs in an Eat'o'tronic 3000 on the first floor.

Related quests

 * Reilly's Rangers

Behind the Scenes

 * This location appears to be a reference to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, similar to how it looked in 1935. St. Elizabeth's was the first Federal Psychiatric Hospital in the U.S. It is now mostly abandoned.

Trivia

 * On the second floor, the terminal Nurse Station 02 mentions Seneca Clarkson in records regarding a severe groin pull suffered by one Tom Mallone. Transcripts from the Concierge terminal at the Statesman Hotel reveal Seneca Clarkson to be a prostitute regularly employed at the Statesman, who was later killed by a client in suspicious circumstances.
 * There also seems to be a possible easter egg in the hospital. As you enter the large room which appears to be what was once a waiting room, look up at the cieling and notice that there is a hole in it. Shoot at the barrell poking out of it to make it fall out and stand back to watch a trail of skeletons and barrells fall to the ground. Whats more amusing is that after everything has fallen out there appears to be a full skeleton hanging upside down by its leg out of the hole!

Bugs

 * A player with exactly 60 Explosives skill may not be able to disarm the baby carriage trap; the game will still state that a 60 Explosives skill is necessary.


 * When dropping multiple items at the same time within the Hospital, items beyond the first do not drop as expected but instead appear in the first floor room with the frag grenade computer trap, wall safe and Vernon Square exit. (PS3).


 * In one of the men's restrooms, a teddy bear may get stuck in the wall, making a disturbing sound. You can see it barely, but you can grab it too.