SCHENECTADY — The collapse of the St. Clare’s pension fund was a stunning blow for 1,100 of the shuttered hospital’s former employees. But for John and Janet Rizzo, the hit was twice as hard.
Janet worked for decades as a payroll specialist at the Schenectady hospital, where her mom had been a nurse, while John was a longtime maintenance worker there. As it happens, St. Clare’s is where the Rizzos met.
You can understand, then, why the Princetown couple has fond memories of their days at the McClellan Street campus. John and Janet say working at the hospital felt like being with a big family. There was a warmth to St. Clare’s, they say, that few hospitals can replicate…