SLCH and Montefiore officially linked

From a distance it appeared to be an anger management exercise. A group of adults in hard hats took turns swinging their mallets at a wall that refused to budge.

“We wore out a path to Albany,” Michelle Rider told the community leaders at yesterday’s meeting in the Medical Arts Building.

Last night the county legislature’s Public Safety and Emergency Services Committee passed a resolution asking St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital to reverse its decision on closing the Cornwall Emergency Department.