An Emergency Medicine team from the University’s Strong Memorial Hospital has returned from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The 14 team members—physicians, physician assistants, and registered nurses—arrived back in Rochester on April 12, after supporting medical staff at Northwell Health’s North Shore University Hospital, on Long Island near the border with Queens, and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, in Queens, for nearly a week.
The trip was in part initiated in response to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s urgent plea for medical personnel to come to the help of stricken New York City, now the epicenter of the virus.
“We were thrilled to be able to go and pitch in, roll up our sleeves, and we couldn’t be more grateful to Northwell for allowing us to jump right in,” said Aekta Andrea Miglani, the medical director of Emergency Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital.