CEO says JCMO hospital just missed a direct hit from tornado

Somebody ‘upstairs’ must have been watching out for Jefferson City. Capital Region Medical Center’s Gaspare Calvaruso says, if the May tornado had shifted a little to the west, his patients could have been in serious trouble …

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While the tornado largely spared the hospital, it devastated the neighborhood just to the east. Calvaruso says he’s still amazed that so few Jefferson Citans were injured.