NEW YORK — New York’s largest healthcare provider Northwell Health has opened a center to offer resilience and traumatic stress services to its 76,000 healthcare employees and their families impacted by COVID-19.
Three Northwell Health frontline health professionals shared their experience of working at the height of the pandemic at a news conference on Wednesday.
“It was so tough for us,” said Carlos Rivera, 47, an environmental services worker at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. “The hardest thing that anybody would have to endure.”
Rivera’s grandmother and father died from COVID-19 last April. Rivera and his wife also caught the disease.
“I wasn’t able to go to any o…
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