I work in the Blood Bank at St. John's in Joplin, MO that was hit by an F5 tornado on May 22nd. Since then there have been many changes, one of them is that I am now the coordinator of Blood Bank. The disaster was more than anyone could ever prepare for. Every reaction by the employees including the ones in lab at St. Johns was remarkable. Nothing can prepare you for what happened there. Starting over from scratch is also turning out to be a hardship as we are not able to retrieve ANYTHING from the hospital including validations, equipment, or paperwork. Thankfully we were mostly paperless! It's amazing what you don't realize you have until you don't have it anymore.
