Moore Medical Center Patients Survive Oklahoma Tornado

Although we are not directly involved in the care of patients injured in the severe tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, we have noted news reports that the Moore Medical Center was in the direct path of today’s EF 4-5 tornado. In a piece of good news in today’s tragedy is that despite the hospital being virtually destroyed, because of the quick reactions and clear thinking of the hospital staff, all of the approximately 30 hospital inpatients survived the storm. In addition, CNN is reporting that the hospital also took in 300 townspeople who were frantically looking for shelter after local newscasters broadcast warnings that a closet or bathtub would be of little protection and safety. Moore Medical Center before being destroyed by the tornado This is really an amazing outcome and a testament to the professionalism and heroism of the staff, who most likely were the nurses on duty that day in the emergency room, labor and delivery, and inpatient wards. Moore Medical is a small, local community hospital in the larger Normal Regional Health Center with patients likely hospitalized for pneumonia, COPD exacerbations, and hip fractures. During the middle of the day, the local physicians (having seen their patients on morning rounds) were likely back in their community-based offices. Likely, most patients were elderly and not tremendously mobile or young mothers with newborns. Getting 30 patients such as these moved down even one flight of stairs to the cafeteria as per th...
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