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Sunrise Hospital

Inherent Vice

Sunrise Hospital is the Las Vegas hospital where Trillium Fortnight is found in a recent admission record. The brief database search turns the hospital into a practical link between her disappearance and her recovery from a violent encounter.

Identification in Las Vegas

When Doc asks Sparky to search for Trillium, Sparky checks possible hospitals in Las Vegas and finds records for Sunrise and Desert Springs. Doc suggests she may be listed under either Beaverton or Fortnight, noting that the event was recent. The search therefore depends both on the hospital location and on the possibility that Trillium’s record uses a different surname.

Trillium’s Admission

The Sunrise Hospital record lists Trillium Fortnight with a Los Angeles home address. She had been admitted with a concussion, cuts, and bruises, kept for observation and treatment for two or three nights, and released into her parents’ custody the previous Tuesday. Doc recognizes her as the person he is seeking and thanks Sparky for locating the record.

Narrative Function

The hospital appears not as a scene of treatment but as a point of institutional information: a few entries on a screen establish Trillium’s identity, injuries, recent presence in Las Vegas, and return to her parents. The precise admission and release details turn an uncertain search into a confirmed lead, while the record’s brevity leaves the circumstances of her injuries unexplained.