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JUST IN TIME
With 39 months to build an unplanned,
890,000-square-foot replacement hospital,
the project team behind the new Mercy
Hospital Joplin brought the tornado-ravaged
community of Joplin, Mo., a new facility
that's ready to weather the storm
By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis
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team got to work removing contents like patient medical records,
pharmaceuticals, and IT servers and ensuring that no one could enter
the hospital.
Meanwhile, the people of Joplin needed medical care. Mercy set up
a triage downtown and tried to identify facilities where patients could
be sent afterward, but the other provider in town was soon at capacity,
leaving many heading to nearby cities and states. With that immediate
need all too apparent, within one week Mercy erected a tent hospital
near the existing site. It was later replaced by a prefabricated hospital
that allowed Mercy to get through the winter before moving into a
modular hospital that opened in early 2012. (For more, see "Alternative
Means" on page 36.)
But while all of this was happening, Mercy still needed a permanent
solution.
MERCY (LEFT); ED LACASSE PHOTOGRAPHY (RIGHT)
Above: Following an EF-5 tornado,
the former St. John's Mercy Regional
Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., served
as a case study in resiliency that the
replacement project team used to
establish what worked and what didn't,
with components that withstood the
storm serving as a baseline for the
design of the new Mercy Hospital Joplin.
For example, the structural steel held
up well, whereas unlaminated windows
were all blown out. Right: The new
Mercy Joplin was designed to withstand
storms rated EF-3 or stronger and to
keep the facility functional if it's hit.
Hurricane-resistant sliding doors were
installed at all entrances.
IN THE HOURS and days immediately following the May 22, 2011,
EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo.-including the former St.
John's Mercy Regional Medical Center-there wasn't a whole lot of
time to think about rebuilding.
"This isn't something you normally plan for. So we got down there
and tried to figure out where we even start with this," says John
Farnen, Mercy's executive director of strategic projects (St. Louis),
who was on the scene following the storm to assess damage to the
800,000-square-foot, 360-bed hospital and secure the site. "When we
saw the hospital and how much damage was done to the outside, and
the inside was just as bad as the outside, it was just unbelievable."
While the 1960s structural frame was still standing, most of the
windows had been blown out, the roof was torn off, and interior walls
had failed. Once patients and staff were evacuated, Farnen and his
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