Rush Hospital in Meridian was awarded the StormReady designation by the National Weather Service, by having plans in place to be prepared during stormy days, according to an article on the WTOK website.
“You have to demonstrate to the National Weather Service that you are capable of receiving alerts, and disseminating the alerts, and that you have a plan, and that your plan is operational and it works and you drill your plan,” said Rush's director of security plan operations and emergency management, Keith McCary.
Rush became the 19th hospital in Mississippi to get the StormReady sign.
“When severe weather does come into our area, we may not necessarily move the patients, but we do send spotters to the roof. We do monitor the area around with our cameras that we have here at the hospital. We do monitor the radar,” said McCary.
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