The deadly tornado that destroyed a Missouri nursing home three years ago showed that long-term care facilities need to have specially designed shelter areas, says a recently released government report.
Tornado shelters should be installed in nursing homes, government agency recommends in report on Joplin...
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 04, 2014
The deadly tornado that destroyed a Missouri nursing home three years ago showed that long-term care facilities need to have specially designed shelter areas, says a recently released government report....
Tornado-stricken community calls for nursing home ‘safe rooms’
Jul 19, 2011
Two months after a tornado demolished Greenbriar Nursing Home in Joplin, MO, — and much of everything else around it — members of the community have called for the inclusion of storm shelters in nursing...
Nursing home residents dead after Missouri tornado
May 25, 2011
At least 10 nursing home residents and one employee were killed in a Sunday tornado that hit Joplin, MO. The storm killed at least 117 people, and may have caused up to $3 billion in insured losses to...
