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Article: After 1995 Bombing, Oklahoma City Hospitals Prepared for Unthinkable.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 30, 2003
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By Jennifer Autrey, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 30--OKLAHOMA CITY--St. Anthony Hospital sits six blocks from where Timothy McVeigh parked a truck filled with ammonium nitrate. So the hospital had to deal with most of the injured after the bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Within two hours, victims had more than filled the emergency room. The staff had to cancel all elective surgeries and convert the dental and outpatient clinics to makeshift ERs.
St. Anthony eventually saw more than half the 549 victims treated at area hospitals. Today, administrators say they should ...