Mural dedicated to health workers, patients at Baltimore hospital – WBAL TV Baltimore

This spring marks four years since the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns nationwide.The University of Maryland Baltimore-Washington Medical Center honored health care workers and patients Thursday with a mural.The mural commemorates the shared experience between patients, workers, family members and the community and celebrates their courage."Such a beautiful work of art that will be here for generations to come, so that we will never forget," BWMC president Kathy McCullom said.The hospital began work on the mural in December. It was completed in six months.Workers and patients reflected on what it means to them. Nurse Iskra Gillis was a manager of the COVID-19 containment unit."It was very rough, it was hard not to be around family, but we had to be here," Gillis said. "We leaned on each other and we got through it."Craig Miyamoto had COVID-19 in October 2020 and was hospitalized for six weeks. He was sedated for four of those weeks."(The mural) commemorates all of the hardship we went through, to thank the workers here and to remind the community of the long trying time we went through," Miyamoto said.Carol Burke and her husband both had stays at BWMC. She was there for 31 days, on a ventilator for more than two weeks."It symbolizes that each person had a job to do in this hospital, and they all showed up during those times because they saw what it's like to have COVID-19, even with all the protective gear on, the courage that they all had," Burke said.The hospital collaborated with Art with a Heart to create the mixed media mural, which took 600 artists to create.

This spring marks four years since the COVID-19 pandemic forced shutdowns nationwide.

The University of Maryland Baltimore-Washington Medical Center honored health care workers and patients Thursday with a mural.

The mural commemorates the shared experience between patients, workers, family members and the community and celebrates their courage.

"Such a beautiful work of art that will be here for generations to come, so that we will never forget," BWMC president Kathy McCullom said.

The hospital began work on the mural in December. It was completed in six months.

Workers and patients reflected on what it means to them. Nurse Iskra Gillis was a manager of the COVID-19 containment unit.

"It was very rough, it was hard not to be around family, but we had to be here," Gillis said. "We leaned on each other and we got through it."

Craig Miyamoto had COVID-19 in October 2020 and was hospitalized for six weeks. He was sedated for four of those weeks.

"(The mural) commemorates all of the hardship we went through, to thank the workers here and to remind the community of the long trying time we went through," Miyamoto said.

Carol Burke and her husband both had stays at BWMC. She was there for 31 days, on a ventilator for more than two weeks.

"It symbolizes that each person had a job to do in this hospital, and they all showed up during those times because they saw what it's like to have COVID-19, even with all the protective gear on, the courage that they all had," Burke said.

The hospital collaborated with Art with a Heart to create the mixed media mural, which took 600 artists to create.

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