I’ve been to the ground level of many hospitals and have never located a morgue. Are morgues advertised as such in hospitals? Or could they be on another floor or sealed off wing or something?
In the hospital where I used to volunteer on weekends in the ER, it was down in the basement. And definitely not marked with anything but a room number.
BTW, if you see what appears to be a gurney being wheeled along, but below the top it is all curtained off, therein lies a body. Dead one, that is.
I have not seen a curtained off gurney before.
But this belongs in GQ! DOH!
At the hospital where I worked, the morgue was a back room in the pathology department. Which was located in the basement.
So far it’s been in the basement of every hospital I’ve worked in
The one morgue I’ve been in (making a delivery) was on the ground floor, and located by the loading dock. FWIW, it also has only 2 drawers in the cooler.
In the hospital I work by it’s in the basement tucked away in a corner. It is marked morgue, but you’d probably have to know where you were going to find it (it’s pretty tucked away).
In my hospital experience (I’ve worked in dozens), they’ve always been in the basement (most commonly) or the ground floor.
You know I came in here to say the last morgue I was in was on the third floor, so there! But now it occurs to me that that particular hospital is built into a hillside, and that the third floor may in fact be the ground floor on the side most accessible to the freeway/nearest drag.
With Hilts regularly in one, that doesn’t leave much room for everyone else.
Ours is in the basement, door unmarked (either to avoid upsetting or invoking the curiosity of passersby). Most times that or the ground floor in an inconspicuous location is where the morgue will be, though there are exceptions.
One residency program in a major university featured a modern morgue facility several flights up, with windows looking out on a pine forest. That was the nicest I’ve ever seen, views being uncommon in morgue design. The one at the Philadelphia V.A. looks out on a cemetery. 
Do they still pull the sheets over their heads?
A few months ago I was in a hospital picking someone up and I walked past a room with a person laying on a bed with the lights off (this was in a clinic type area, not in a patient tower type area). Didn’t think much of it until I noticed the toe tag.
Later I asked my FIL (who works at that hospital) why they didn’t have the sheet pulled up and his response was that they don’t do that anymore because it freaks people out. I have to assume they didn’t mean to leave the door open with his feet pointed towards the hallway.
The morgue is frequently located in the basement, because that is an effective place for it.
Locations higher up, with windows, are in more demand for patient rooms & offices. Not having windows is no disadvantage in a morgue; those patients don’t care, and only a few pathology doctors & orderlies are ever in there.
Basements are at a more stable temperature, making it easier for the coolers to keep bodies cooled.
Bodies have to be transported out of the morgue eventually; a location in the basement makes it convenient & unobtrusive for funeral directors to pick them up.
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There it can die a natural death. 
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Another anecdote-point for “basement” and “the only markings are arrows saying ‘Pathology’ which lead to a ‘no patients admitted area’”. It can be detected from outside because there is a large door whose only marking is “No Patients”. I’ve seen that in 6 separate hospitals, if I’m not miscounting. And the reason I know these things is that Dad used to work at one of them (not the Morgue, he was in Procurement).
The hospital where I grew up had a morgue in a separate building and it was no secret what was in it.
It’s the ground floor here.
A few months ago my ex-husband died in the hospital on the ninth floor. My mom, my son, and I were there, and afterwards were going to go down to my mom’s office (she works in the morgue). So she took us down a special elevator which she told us was generally used to transport the bodies. It took for-freakin-ever to arrive.
Later that evening, my son asked me, “Mom, where is Dad now?” I told him, “Well, if he took the same elevator we did, probably still on the ninth floor…”
In most of the hospitals where I’ve worked, it’s in the basement/lowest floor. That way bodies don’t have to be transported throughout a facility.
The 3 hospitals I’ve worked in it has been on the ground floor/basement.
It has also been very inconspicuous and off the beaten path, if there was a sign, it said “Pathology” or “Employees Only”.
In the one hospital, it was very hard to find. Through a maze of twists and turns and unmarked doors. In another, it was right next to the facility where they kept all the animals for research, but the door was not marked.
At the University of Chicago, the morgue is in the basement, not far from the cafeteria. I would occasionally head down for lunch and walk by someone pushing a gurney with a black bag on it and a security officer following. I have no proof, but always assumed that the cafeteria and morgue shared their refrigeration infrastructure.