A group of eight nurses from Northwell Health in New York City have arrived in Rochester and began work Sunday at Strong Memorial Hospital.
They’re returning a favor, after Strong sent a similar team of nurses to Northwell in April, 2020, during the worst of the pandemic for New York City when their hospitals were overloaded with COVID patients.
The nursing team is taking up patient care duties in the ED and the ICU at Strong, helping them cope with the Western New York surge of COVID patients pressuring our hospitals.