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DCU Center's Field Hospital Deployment Winding Down By Spectrum News Staff Worcester PUBLISHED 11:38 AM ET Mar. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED March 15, 2021 @11:38 AM SHARE After 100 days of operation, the second deployment of the DCU Center Field Hospital is coming to an end Monday. Tonight, all staff and patients will be out of the state's last remaining COVID-19 field hospital. Since December, 652 patients have been treated at the DCU Center, and in ...

DCU Center field hospital population begins to steady WORCESTER — The DCU Field Hospital has begun to keep steady range in population size as the state deliberates what its capacity might look like in March.   There are currently 31 patients at the facility, Peter Lancette, director of the field hospital’s operations and the facility’s assistant chief nursing officer, said. That is a decline of three patients since last Monday. Last week, 40 patients were admitted into the field hospital. The maximum census at the hospital was 67 patients. Since the facility reopened in spring, 5...

Field hospitals play vital role as COVID surge continues By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff,Updated January 24, 2021, 4:51 p.m. Email to a Friend A health care worker and a translator spoke to a COVID-19 patient inside the field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester. The field hospital and a second military-style medical site that opened in Lowell together add nearly 300 beds to hospital capacity.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Kenneth R. Smith has visited the convention center in downtown Worcester many times over the years for trade shows and exhibitions. This month, he was there as a pa...

By STEPHANIE RAMOS, KATIE O'BRIEN, and ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC News (WORCESTER, Ma.) -- Michael Gadbois, a first responder, was used to going the DCU Center for concerts and sporting events. But his most recent trip there was as a COVID-19 patient. "I never thought I would be going into the convention center on a stretcher," Gadbois told ABC News, which was given exclusive access to the UMass Memorial Medical Center's field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since Thanksgiving, the seven-day average of daily cases in Massachusetts has increased by 176%. The number of hos...

DCU Center has treated and discharged 100 COVID patients, officials say Updated Dec 22, 2020; UMass Memorial staff working at the DCU Center in Worcester have treated and discharged 100 coronavirus patients, officials said Tuesday. The average length of stay for patients is just under four days, Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said during a press conference with Gov. Charlie Baker. The area re-opened as a field hospital this month after first operating as one during the spring surge of the virus. Currently, the DCU Center has 26 patients and a staff capacity of 50 beds...