BY ALEX MITCHELL
One of the region’s largest
health systems commemorated
the one-year anniversary
of COVID-19 with
a ceremony in the Bronx
last week.
On Thursday, March 11,
Montefiore Medicine honored
frontline workers from
the Bronx, Westchester, and
Rockland counties with a
remembrance ceremony,
“celebrating the bravery,
excellence, and sacrifice
of the Montefiore healthcare
workers who have provided
critical care to tens
of thousands of COVID-19
patients since confirming
Montefiore’s first COVID-19
case on the same day, March
11, one year ago.”
Joined by the Every
Voice Children’s Choir and
Orchestra of the Bronx,
Montefiore CEO Dr. Philip
Ozuah celebrated the doctors,
nurses, and other
frontline personnel in a
speech that praised the heroes
who “day-in and dayout
put their lives on the
line to protect New York’s
most vulnerable communities.”
“This past year, we witnessed
the savagery of the
slow-motion murder of one
man at the knee of another
in a brutal display of racial
injustice, and we witnessed
this new virus savage poor
and minority communities,
vividly exposing how poor
social conditions combine
to leave entire communities
particularly vulnerable to
the lethality of COVID-19,”
Ozuah said.
During a ceremony dedicated
to the members of the
Montefiore family who were
lost to the COVID-19, many
stood tn front of the main
Montefiore hospital, which
was lit up with colorful animations
of healthcare workers
and the words “United
we remember. United we
rise.” displayed across the
building.
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, M 14 ARCH 19-25, 2021
Photo by Alex Mitchell
Dr. Ozuah was joined by
Golden Globe winner and
multiple Grammy nominee
Jon Batiste, bandleader for
The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert; it was then
that Batiste reminded those
gathered that “Above all our
problems is purpose.”
Montefi ore holds 1-year
COVID-19 anniversary
remembrance
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