The healthcare community serving Joplin, Mo., is working hard to rebuild capacity one year after a tornado destroyed one of its hospitals, as emergency preparedness experts try to use Joplin's experience to allow other hospitals to become better prepared.Executives for Mercy Hospital Joplin—known as St. John's Regional Medical Center before the May 22, 2011 storm—and two-hospital Freeman Health System are in the middle of post-storm construction projects worth about $1 billion, the vast majority of that at Mercy.
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