Gianni Piccolino Thanks NWH for Saving His Life with Pizza Party

Local restauranteur Gianni Piccolino, 53, (who generously fed first-responders at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic) was admitted to Northern Westchester Hospital days before Thanksgiving, 2020, with a life-threatening case of COVID-19, and spent two months in an induced coma. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Piccolino underwent emergency surgery made necessary by an additional diagnosis of sepsis due to a perforated stomach ulcer; happily, just one day before his birthday on February 12, 2021, he was able to return home.

Mr. Piccolino returned to the hospital exactly one-year-to-the day from his discharge with a portable wood burning pizza oven truck to host a pre-Valentine's Day thank you pizza party for the hospital staff who brought him back to health. Piccolino, his staff, business partner Tommy Calandrucci, and family parked in front of Northern Westchester Hospital and prepared individual salads and pizzas. Piccolino owns two restaurants, Stone Fire and Basilico, located in Mount Kisco.