A lot was lost after Joplin's EF-5 tornado, but a lot was also learned, including how to build a better, more storm-resistant hospital for the future.

How do you build a hospital that can sustain 200-mile-per-hour winds? Well, for the answer - we hope - we're going to turn now to Joplin, Missouri. On May 22, 2011, a force five tornado struck Joplin.

JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) – When the night was still, in the middle of a pitch black abyss, a beacon of light rose above the darkness. With one hospital incapacitated by one of the deadliest tornado… ...

After St. John's Medical Center in Joplin was seriously damaged in 2011 by one the biggest tornadoes on record, its parent company erected a new hospital, renamed Mercy Hospital Joplin, that's ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A new Joplin hospital that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado is opening its doors to patients Sunday. The $465 million Mercy Hospital Joplin features 205 private rooms ...

Deadly Joplin Tornado Sheds Light On Hospital Emergency Plans St John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin was left in ruins by the tornado that swept by the hospital.

JOPLIN (AP) - The Joplin hospital where at least nine people died in the May 22 tornado has announced its rebuilding plans. The new St. John's Regional Medical Center will be built at the ...

More than 150 died when a twister tore through Joplin in 2011, making it the deadliest tornado in the last seven decades.

JOPLIN, Mo. - Rescue and recovery work in Joplin was shadowed by uncertainty Wednesday as crews still hoping to find survivors combed areas that had already been searched several times and ...

Hospital Workers Share Harrowing Accounts Of Joplin Tornado It has been nearly a year since the Joplin tornado, an EF-5 storm that killed 161 people and forever changed the entire community.

St John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin was left in ruins by the tornado that swept by the hospital. How they handled the emergency is likely to be carefully studied to see if anything could ...