Frontline healthcare workers from Manhattan’s Bellevue Medical Center were honored at New York’s City Hall March 10 for their Ebola preparedness and response work. Among the workers presented with a proclamation by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito were 1199SEIU members Miguella De La Cruz (third from left, looking straight ahead with hands clasped) and Mildred Altreche (fifth from left, holding proclamation), who are both medical technologists at Bellevue. “It was great to be recognized. For all of us—the doctors, the nurses everybody. We all worked together,” said De La Cruz, a lead medical technologist at Bellevue for 35 years. “It means a lot to be able to help people. That’s part of our job and to be acknowledged that way felt great—especially for us medical technologists because we’re in the background. It was a real privilege to be chosen.”