EDMOND - If a natural disaster ever hit the hospital, contingency plans included setting up a command center in a ground-floor conference room. But the conference room was in shambles like the rest of ...

The new Mercy Joplin (Mo.) Hospital is slated to open March 22, nearly four years after a tornado ripped through the area destroying the old St. John’s Medical Center in Joplin, according to a Grove ...

From the producers of "Dateline," NBC's new series "Survival Mode" will give viewers an inside look at some of the largest and most recent disasters through accounts from those who lived through them.

Brian Froelke, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and chief medical officer for the Missouri medical disaster team, has set out to Joplin, Mo., to help set up a ...

The remains of a truck is wrapped around a tree as Kayla McMinn gathers belongings on Vermont Avenue, near 18th Street, on Monday afternoon, May 23, 2011, a day after Joplin, Mo., was hit by a tornado ...