After year filled with loss, hope emerges for future as PBMC commemorates health care heroes A memorial that will be part of a garden outside Peconic Bay Medical Center. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister)
One by one, the hospital staff members approached the monument just unveiled outside Peconic Bay Medical Center and placed a rock at its edge Monday evening. Each rock featured a personal drawing or message representing the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Some featured a remembrance to a life lost. Others gave thanks to the health care heroes who rose to the occasion to treat so many patients who fell ill during a global pandemic.