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Lynch to Hospital Staff: We Cry, Then Keep On

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/27/20

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch April 23 delivered an impassioned tribute to staffers at Long Island Jewish Hospital for their efforts battling the coronavirus, saying, "It seems we have to run from this virus, but it turns out when it strikes, the sick folks run here."

Union officials paid an early-shift visit to the facility just on the city side of the Queens/Nassau border, delivering 750 sandwiches and beverages to a delegation led by LIJ Executive Director Michael Goldberg and Michael Dowling, the president and CEO of Northwell Health, with which the hospital is affiliated.

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