Filipino nurses

Read this multimedia story on ABS-CBN News. NEW YORK CITY –  The blaring sirens of 21 ambulances with flashing red lights filled the street outside Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York – a gesture equivalent to a...

NEW YORK —  The good weather over the Memorial Day Weekend was just what many New Yorkers needed after sheltering-in-place for months. Many explored Central Park, while Brooklyn’s Coney Island was crowded with beachgoers sporting masks...

SALEM, MA — He’s only 19-years-old, but Filipino-American Ben Zimmerman has been working on the frontlines of the pandemic at a hospital in Salem, Massachusetts, taking care of hospice patients with COVID-19. He originally got the...

LAS VEGAS, NV —  Cesar Noel Estillore, a Fil-Am nurse from Las Vegas, is among more than 5,400 people in Clark County who got infected with COVID-19. Estillore recalled how he was possibly exposed to the...

VANCOUVER — Filipino Canadians gathered outside Mount Saint Joseph hospital and Little Mountain senior residence in East Vancouver to pay tribute to frontliners. Holding placards of thanks, they danced and saluted the health care workers for...

ESCONDIDO, CA — After a frustrating couple months — which saw some 300 workers, including nurses, get laid off — these nurses once again rallied against Palomar Medical Center. This time, they’re calling for the resignation...

NEW YORK — A siren salute for another Filipino hero who lost his life on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus. 58-year-old Erwin Lambrento was an ER nurse at the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic,...

LAS VEGAS, NV — The hustle and bustle in the entertainment capital of world is gone for now, as Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic — with more than...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nurses of Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco took to the streets prior to a shift change to tell the public that they do not accept the standards their hospital has set when it...

HOLLYWOOD — Wednesday marked National Nurses Day, but as the heroes without capes work in the frontlines amid the pandemic, the community honored Celia Lardizabal Marcos, a 61-year-old Filipino American nurse who died of COVID-19 last...