On behalf of the family of the late Wilhemina Peluso, who was featured in an article in the Tuesday, March 25, edition of the Butler Eagle, I extend my gratitude for the opportunity to reflect and reconsider.

However, I feel it is very important to correct one inaccuracy: my mother died on April 10, 2020, of COVID-19 in the care of Butler Memorial Hospital — not Concordia at the Orchard. In those early days of the pandemic, Concordia was unable to provide the medical care she needed. She was transferred to Butler Memorial Hospital and settled in on the newly designated COVID-19 floor.

Family members were not permitted in the hospital. And, at that time, there were very few inpatients with COVID-19. This gave the hospital staff the opportunity to give my mother the most thorough medical care available then, but more so, she was given truly outstanding personal and compassionate care.

The entire staff — tasked to provide this extension to end-of-life care, with no family members — stayed with my mother round the clock, sitting with her, talking with her, listening to music with her, holding her, and giving her what we, her family, could not.

They became her family, and I gratefully waited as they helped her peaceful passing. She was not alone when she died. I am eternally grateful to the people at Butler Memorial Hospital. I want those people to have the recognition they deserve.

Pauline M. Peluso, Renfrew