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Cars fill the Central Avenue parking lot of Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk.
Right before the storm of COVID-19 in the middle of March, the Brooks-TLC Hospital System in Dunkirk was in the midst of buttoning up the Lakeshore Hospital in Irving that closed its doors Feb. 2. Running the two health-care campuses during the year of 2019 led to a $20 million loss for the private, not-for-profit operation.
Controlling finances not viruses was the priority then.
Today, however, administrators for the second-largest hospital system in Chautauqua County are clearly focused on the all-out crisis that not only faces the world as well as this region.