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Tending to Hospital Employees After the Joplin Tornado
As quickly as a monster tornado ripped through Joplin, MO, last spring, the 2,200 employees of the gutted St. John's Mercy Regional Medical Center faced the prospect of losing their jobs. That's when CEO Lynn Britton made the decision that may come to define his leadership. Britton tells HealthLeaders Media about Mercy's talent-sharing program designed to keep as many workers as possible employed through the rebuilding effort.