{"id":424812,"date":"2020-04-14T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=424812"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:59:39","slug":"university-of-rochester-emergency-medicine-team-returns-from-helping-in-nyc-424812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/university-of-rochester-emergency-medicine-team-returns-from-helping-in-nyc-424812\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Emergency Medicine team returns from helping in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Besides being eager to help overwhelmed colleagues downstate, the trip also offered local health care personnel a chance to gain valuable insights in their fight against the pandemic in the Greater Rochester area.<\/div>\n

An Emergency Medicine team from the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\u2019s Strong Memorial Hospital<\/a> has returned from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The 14 team members\u2014physicians, physician assistants, and registered nurses\u2014arrived back in Rochester on Sunday, after supporting medical staff at Northwell Health\u2019s North Shore University Hospital<\/a>, on Long Island near the border with Queens, and Long Island Jewish Medical Center<\/a>, in Queens, for nearly a week.<\/p>\n

The trip was in part initiated in response to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s urgent plea<\/a> for medical personnel to come to the help of stricken New York City, now the epicenter of the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were thrilled to be able to go and pitch in, roll up our sleeves, and we couldn\u2019t be more grateful to Northwell for allowing us to jump right in,\u201d said Aekta Andrea Miglani<\/a>, the medical director of Emergency Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flavia Nobay, professor of emergency medicine, gets ready for work at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Medical Center photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it\u2019s not just a one-way street. Besides being eager to help overwhelmed colleagues downstate, the trip also offered local health care personnel a chance to gain valuable insights in their fight against the pandemic in the Greater Rochester area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the basic take-home messages we had was that we\u2019re right on track in terms of our preparing for our own community,\u201d Miglani said. \u201cURMC has done a phenomenal job of really learning from all the places that have been hit very hard, very quickly\u2014and taking that knowledge into account and planning ahead since we potentially have that little bit of lead time. We\u2019ll be able to better serve our community if we get that type of a surge.\u201d<\/p>\n