“We are grateful for your support in our fight against Covid-19,” hospital President and CEO Kathleen Silard said during the windy afternoon ceremony.
Calling the partnership between her staff and the task force “truly special,” she acknowledged the leadership of Hedenberg and U.S. Army Reserve Col. Patricia Olson.
“I have to tell you, walking around the hospital over the past several days I kept hearing over and over again, ‘We really are going to miss our military partners,’” she said.
U.S. Army Reserve Col. Patricia Olson leads the military personnel making up Task Force 811-1 of the Connecticut National Guard and U.S. Army Reserves Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force (UAMTF) as they parade through the cheers and salutes of thank-you’s from the doctors, nurses, support staff and administrators of Stamford Hospital on Photo: Matthew Brown / Hearst Connecticut Media