During the summer of 2020 when many people where isolated at home during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Alexandra (Ally) Patz began writing cards of encouragement to ease the suffering.
The Ursuline School sophomore is continuing her campaign and recently organized more than 20 students at the school to write letters and deliver them to first responders at St. Vincent”™s Hospital Westchester in Harrison, a division of Saint Joseph”™s Medical Center.
Lorraine Horgan, vice president of external affairs at Saint Joseph”™s Medical Center, suggested that the students write letters to the frontline workers on the inpatient psychiatric units at St. Vincent”™s Hospital in Harrison, which provides counseling and mental health services.
Patz and peers got together and wrote more than 80 hand-designed cards that were delivered to the hospital.
“We are grateful to Ally and her fellow students for thinking of the frontline workers at St. Vincent”™s Hospital. Behavioral health workers are often overlooked as frontline responders. Receiving the letters from the students was a real morale booster for the staff,” said Michael Spicer, president and CEO of Saint Joseph”™s Medical Center.
The Ursuline School is an all-girls, Roman Catholic, independent college preparatory school, grades 6-12, celebrating its 125th year and located on a 13-acre modern campus in New Rochelle.
St. Vincent”™s Hospital Westchester division of Saint Joseph”™s Medical Center offers inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment services at its campus in Harrison and at off-site locations in White Plains, Tuckahoe and Port Chester.
