I folkmun kallades hemmet ”fattiggården”. Vårdstandarden var låg och det kunde ligga åtta patienter i samma rum. En avdelning fungerade som barnhem och senare som anstalt för sinnesslöa. När en patient ansågs farlig blev den inlåst och ibland fastspänd med s.k. läderhandskar. Det kunde räcka med ångest och sömnproblem för att få diagnosen sinnesslö. Självmord bland patienterna var inte ovanligt.
När det nya vårdhemmet i Råda stod klart 1964 avvecklades vårdhemmet i Myra och byggnaderna köptes upp av en bilfirma. Lokalerna användes under en period av en pallfabrik och senare av civilförsvaret. Från 1994 var fastigheterna privatägda.
Efter många år av förfall revs Myra vård- och ålderdomshem 2018.
Februari 2015
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The home for undesired
Myra nursing home was built in 1907 in Norra Råda, Hagfors, Sweden. There was a health center, birth center and dentist. The facility also served nearby parishes that did not have their own nursing homes.
The nursing home was called ”the poverty home” in popular speech. The standard of care was low, and eight patients could share one room. One ward serves as orphanage and later as institution for ”the feebleminded”. When a patient was considered dangerous, he was locked up and sometimes strapped down with so-called leather gloves. Anxiety and sleep problems could be enough to get diagnosed as “feebleminded”. Suicide among the patients was not uncommon.
When the new nursing home in Råda was completed in 1964, Myra nursing home was closed, and the properties bought by a car company. For a period, the buildings were used by a pallet factory and later by Swedish civil defense. The properties were privately owned from 1994.
After many years of disrepair, Myra nursing home was demolished in 2018.
February 2015
Tomma rum 