“It was very difficult, you know? Because that was home away from home.”ġ0 years later, both Stokes and Kepley have stayed, they’ve battled a pandemic and they both still work at Mercy Hospital.
“It was definitely built to withstand the elements and thank God it did,” Kepley. “It protected as many patients and staff as it could that day,” Stokes said. Mercy Hospital was rebuilt in a different location. “You couldn’t call anyone to say, ‘hey what do you do in this situation?’ because really, no one’s been in that situation before," Stokes said. Over the weeks and months, they worked to keep moving forward. Within days, a tent field hospital was running near the battered building. There was mold starting to grow and really not very much of anything that came out of that building that could be salvaged for medical care," she continued. “Just within 48 hours only we were able to get in the building. “We were already starting to look at what was in the hospital, what could be salvaged, you know? That was my job,” Stokes said. “Your mind goes, ‘I need to be there, but how?’”
“It didn’t take long to start hearing the hospital had taken a direct hit,” Stokes said. John’s the night of the tornado including about 150 patients. When the tornado did pass, “you could still hear and feel the air as the tornado was still going on because it was still happening while we were coming out and taking care of people," according to Kepley.Ī representative for Mercy Hospital said more than 200 people were likely in St. “The whole time you’re in there, thinking ‘was today the last day I saw my family when I came to work? Are we all going to survive and get out of here?" Kepley said. “You could hear things, the building you could feel the building shaking.” Kepley said just when they thought the storm had passed, a few people started venturing out.
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“So we started taking cover and the windows busted and debris was flying." “There were nine of us in a two by two room with the patient trying to keep him safe.” John's Regional Medical Center caring for patients when the tornado hit. Kevin Kepley is now the intensive care unit nurse manager at Mercy Hospital and was at St. “(We) Got down the steps of the basement, I mean just barely and the tornado hit and we could hear the house disappear," Donna Stokes said. The Registered Nurse and Infection Preventionist said they just made it to safety. “Kind of that hair standing up on your arms type of situation, so I told him, you know, ‘get the dog, get your shoes.’ I have never said get your shoes to anyone, and to go to the basement,” she said. John’s Regional Medical Center and she was home when one of her sons came in hearing sirens. Donna Stokes has worked for Mercy Hospital for more than 40 years.
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