![]() “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. “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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