Jack D. Weiler Hospital Celebrates Discharge of 1,000th COVID-19 Patient
A few dozen staff members at one local Bronx hospital took a few minutes out of from their busy day on May 8 to applaud their collective efforts in the ongoing fight against COVID-19, as they said goodbye to the hospital’s thousandth patient to have recovered from the virus. Bronxite, Maximo Gonzalez, 56, originally from the Dominican Republic, was discharged on Friday from the Jack D. Weiler Hospital at the Einstein campus of Montefiore Medical Center in the Morris Park area of the Bronx, after being admitted with suspected COVID-19 two days earlier. Gonzalez got the red carpet treatment