Baystate Health COVID hospitalizations drop from 70 to 52 in week Updated 3:49 PM; SPRINGFIELD – The number of patients admitted in critical care units at Baystate Health hospitals with COVID-19 has dropped by more than 20% in a week. As of Sunday, hospital staff is caring for 52 patients with confirmed COVID-19, of those 14 are being treated in critical care units. There were 70 patients being treated with COVID-19 a week ago and 17 were in critical care units, officials said. The number of patients hospitalized at Baystate Health facilities with COVID-19 had been decreasing slowly before this week’s dip. The week before there were 72 people and the two weeks previously there were 79, officials said.