The most moving moment was at Harlem Hospital yesterday, where she visited a pediatric AIDS unit.
It will house an AIDS unit and more elderly poor.
The first important decision for the redesigned AIDS unit sent mixed signals about the intentions of prison officials.
In the early years, hospitals that treated many patients with the disease rushed to assemble AIDS units.
The hospital also has a small AIDS unit that was not affected by the outbreak.
Few AIDS units are large enough even for current demand.
AIDS units generally have a ratio of four patients for each nurse, compared to 8-to-1 on regular medical and surgical floors.
Such meetings have become routine on AIDS units as antidotes to unrelenting stress and grief.
On the AIDS unit, patients rarely encounter frightened health-care workers.
Eight women and 36 men are now living in the AIDS unit.
