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COURIER L 16 IFE, APRIL 24-30, 2020
Rose returns
from two-week
Max Rose returned from his two-week deployment in Staten
Island on April 16. Congressman Max Rose’s offi ce.
BY ROSE ADAMS
Southern Brooklyn
Congressman Max Rose
returned to his offi ce on
April 16 after a two-week
deployment with the National
Guard, where he
helped erect a new hospital
in Staten Island to
treat COVID-19 patients.
“It was a privilege
to get this essential
COVID-19 hospital up
and running,” said Rose.
“This operation was a
testament to what we
can accomplish as a city,
state, and country when
we put aside differences
and focus on getting the
job done.”
Rose and members
of the National Guard’s
69th Infantry Regiment
spent two weeks converting
a recently-built psychiatric
facility into a
262-bed emergency hospital
focused on treating
New Yorkers infected
with the novel coronavirus
— granting relief to
Staten Island’s hospitals,
which are operating at
over 300 times their normal
capacity, Rose told
Brooklyn Paper.
Rose and his fellow
National Guardsmen
managed the logistics of
the facility’s conversion
by acquiring and installing
equipment, coordinating
with local hospitals,
and ensuring the
health and safety of the
staff, said the freshman
rep.
“For hospital care,
you need the equipment,
you need staffi ng, and
you need to integrate it
into a hospital system,”
he said. “That’s what we
were doing.”
Within the project’s
fi rst six days, the facility
accepted its fi rst
COVID-19 patient, Rose
said, and the facility’s
30-person staff has since
served more than 60 people.
An Army veteran
who fought in Afghanistan,
Rose served with
the National Guard’s
69th Infantry Regiment
for a year before being
elected to offi ce in 2018,
and was thrilled to be reunited
with his old team
— which, he said, was a
coincidence.
“To be there with my
unit that I used to serve
with made this even
more of a privilege,” he
said.
And while he said
the experience gave him
fi rst-hand knowledge of
the harrowing devastation
caused by the virus,
the experience also gave
him hope for the future.
“I got a sense a little
earlier in terms of
the incredible complexity
of the coronavirus,”
he said. “You also
see that there is hope.
Some people are getting
discharged, getting reunited
with their families.”
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