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  • 2016-09-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Chelsea Clinton's Apartment Houses a Secret Hospital (en)
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  • On 11 September 2016, video of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton swaying and appearing to faint at an event added fuel to already rampant rumors that she was battling everything from a brain tumor to vascular dementia. The rumors were not tamped down by the Clinton campaign's disclosure that she was, in fact, suffering from pneumonia, nor were they affected by her appearance at her daughter's apartment later that day. In fact, her trip to her daughter's New York City apartment gave rise to a new rumor: That Chelsea Clinton's purported apartment is actually a front for a medical facility, placed in New York specially so that her mother could receive clandestine medical care whenever she needed it. This particular theory was bolstered by the fact that the apartment building, The Whitman, really did have an office for a medical care facility at some point: But, as the New York Department of Health listing clearly says, the facility closed well before its relaunch as a luxe apartment complex in 2013: The Whitman was built in 1924, originally intended as the headquarters for a textile company called Clarence B. Whitman & Sons. It went through many iterations before it became the luxury fortress that Chelsea Clinton bought just after its conversion into apartments. A profile of the building mentions that the developer who converted them bought them in 2011: The Plumbers Local 1 had owned the building since the 1970s, and much of it was empty by the time Mitchell's company bought it out: Part of the building was evidently used by Metrocare Home Services (and other businesses, as is common in New York City) for some time, as can be seen by the following document dated August 1991: As of 2012, Metrocare is a division of Tri-Borough Home Care, which offers support services for the elderly and those with Alzheimer's, diabetes, HIV and AIDS, and other health issues that limit mobility inside and outside the home; while it does offer on-site care, the company is headquartered elsewhere. After the merger, the company pruned its staff and closed some of its offices, presumably including the office in the building now occupied by Chelsea Clinton, although we were unable to locate any official records of when that particular office actually closed. However, Tri-Borough Home Care and Metrocare don't have a main facility that services patients; the services they offer are strictly at the patients' homes (which is why they have home care right in the name). From Tri-Borough Home Care's web site: When the Whitman's fourth floor apartment was offered for sale in early 2013, over five months before Chelsea Clinton and her husband purchased it, its listing included no photographs or mention of a medical facility among its amenities. Even if Hillary Clinton were receiving clandestine medical care at a secret facility, there would be no reason for that facility to be located at Metrocare Home Services' former site, as all of the medical care offered by them was, by nature, outside their office. (en)
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