Dozens of New York City healthcare workers have died because of COVID-19 as of Memorial Day, 2020. Here is who they are.
Years ago, my aunt, Vivian Segerman, who was a nurse, died at the age of 43 from a disease she contracted from one of her patients in a New York City hospital, leaving my teenage cousin Bruce on his own.
“I can’t stay home … I’m a healthcare worker,” Freda Ocran wrote on her profile picture on Facebook on March 20th. She died eight days later.
Ashraf Abdo, 60, General Practitioner
Romy Agtarap, 61, Registered Nurse, Emergency Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Columbia
Nerissa Armesto, 64, Nephrology, Renal Dietician Hemodialysis, Rogosin Institute NFB Brooklyn East,
Yaw Asante, nurse, Lincoln Hospital
Madhvi Aya, 61, Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center
Nicanor Baltazar, 60, Registered Nurse, Flushing
Alex Bass, 53, Physician Assistant, Brooklyn, New York
Doug Bass, 64, Medical Director, Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Theresa E. Berbano, 59, ED Nurse, Montefiore Health, Bronx
Idris Bey, 60, Emergency Medical Technician Instructor Coordinator, FDNY
Mark Leighton Bowen, 54, Registered Nurse, Highland Care Nursing Home, Queens
Derik Braswell, 57, Hospital Staff, Elmhurst Medical Center
Lorna Breen, 49, Emergency Department Medical Director, NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, (suicide)
Joyce Brown, Registered Nurse and Nurse Manager, LIJ Forest Hills, Forest Hills
Maria Guia Cabillon, Registered Nurse, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn
Rafael Cargill, 60, Hospital Staff, Medical Records, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Priscilla Carrow, 65, Hospital Staff, Elmhurst Medical Center
Paul Cary, 66, Paramedic (volunteer), Ambulnz
Ricardo Castaneda, 64, Psychiatrist
Charlie Chin Song Chen, Family Medicine/General Practitioner, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center
Reza Chowdhury, 58, Internist and Infectious Diseases Physician, Westchester Medical Healthcare, Bronx
Rosemary Coutou-Figaro, 52, Nurse, Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn
Ydelfonso Decoo, family physician
Wayne Edwards, 61, Hospital Staff, Elmhurst Hospital Center
Maria Grace Esteves-Laureta, 59, Critical Care Nurse, Saint Barnabas Hospital, Bronx
Louis Edouard Fontaine, Doctor, Brooklyn
Frank Gabrin, 60, Emergency Medicine Physician
Jay Galst, 69, ophthamologist
James T. Goodrich, 73, Neurosurgeon, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sam Green, 57, Radiology, X-ray Technician, Mount Sinai Morningside
Greg Hodge, 59, Emergency Medical Technician
Mitchell Horowitz, Physician, Radiologist, Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Aleyamma John, 65, Registered Nurse, New York City Health + Hospitals/Queens Hospital Center
Kious Kelly, 48, ER Nurse, Mount Sinai West
Ernest Lambrento, 59, ER nurse at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
Theresa Lococo, 68, Pediatric Nurse, Kings County Hospital
James Mahoney, 62, intensive care doctor at University Hospital of Brooklyn
William Mantell, pharmacist, Variety Drugs, Queens
Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, 60, Physician Assistant, Brooklyn
Hazel P. Mijares, 66, Licensed Practical Nurse, Amsterdam Nursing Home
John Mondello, 23, Emergency Medical Technician, Tactical Response Group (suicide)
Matthew Moore, 52, Radiologic Technologist, GoHealth Urgent Care, Staten Island
Prea Nankieshore, 34, Emergency Room Unit Clerk, LIJ Forest Hills
Freda Ocran, 50, Psychiatric Nurse, Jacobi Medical Center
Tomas Pattugalan, 70, Internal Medicine Physician
Bredy Pierre-Louis, 74, Family Medicine/General Practitioner, Brooklyn
Livette Plan, Registered Nurse
Mary Ellen Porter, 65, Nurse Manager, Staten Island
Nisar Quraishi, 74, Internal Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Langone
John Redd, 63, Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician, FDNY
Mark Respler, 66, Urologist
Petal Williams Richards, 57, Respiratory Therapist, BronxCare Hospital System
Ruben Rodriguez, Emergency Medical Technician, Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corp
Gary Sclar, 66, Neurologist, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
Richard Seaberry, 63, Emergency Medical Technician FDNY
Susan Sisgundo, nurse, Bellevue
Thomas Soto, 60, Radiology Clerk, Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn
Anthony Thomas, Paramedic, Emergency Medical Services, Brooklyn
Ronald Verrier, 59, Trauma Surgeon, St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx
James Villecco, 55, Ambulance Mechanic, FDNY
Richie Villena, 44, Physical Therapist
Thomas Ward, 60, Volunteer Firefighter
Barry Webber, 67, General Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Queens
David Wolin, 74, Radiologist, Brooklyn Hospital Center
Rebecca Yee, Nurse
“This was the week that the coronavirus crisis pummeled the Brooklyn hospital, just as it did others throughout New York City, where the death toll reached more than 2,000, as the governor warned that vital equipment and supplies would run short in just a few days, as the mayor pleaded for more doctors and as hospital officials and political leaders alike acknowledged that the situation would get even worse.” — ‘Code Blue’: A Brooklyn I.C.U. Fights for Each Life in a Coronavirus Surge”
