1:32 am UTC Mar. 11, 2021
Family grieves after RN dies of COVID-19
Matt Birchenough, son of Barbara Birchenough talks about the preparation that could have saved his mother's life and the grieving that takes place after a loved one is lost to COVID-19. August 2020
Kevin R. Wexler, NorthJersey.com
Barbara Birchenough was working the night shift when COVID-19 made its stealthy entrance at Clara Maass Medical Center a year ago. She was a 46-year veteran of the Belleville institution, a graduate of its nursing school who had raised four kids while commuting from Midland Park. Retirement — and a normal schedule with time for her grandchildren — beckoned on the horizon.