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Officials at a field hospital in Massachusetts say they are concerned as a post-holiday spike in COVID cases nears. As of the start of the new year, roughly 60 patients were being treated for coronavirus at the DCU Center in Worcester, where the director of operations says they are already seeing more volume than they ever saw last spring. “The…

Doctors worry the increased volume they’re already seeing will only get worse when the post-Christmas spike starts to hit.

UMass Memorial Health Care on Sunday began treating COVID-19 patients at the field hospital the state has re-established at the DCU Center. At least five patients have arrived at the reopened hospital as of early Sunday afternoon. The hospital is currently staffed to accept up to 25 patients in its first week. At full capacity, the Worcester field hospital can…

The DCU Center in Worcester opened as a field hospital on Sunday and began accepting patients. Mike Manzoni has the latest report.

The DCU Center field hospital in Worcester is now open and began treating COVID-19 patients.

A field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester will begin accepting COVID-19 patients on Sunday.

The coronavirus surge is here. Cases are spiking, Massachusetts reported 16 more high-risk cities and towns on Thursday and a new field hospital is set to open in Worcester this weekend. And Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is warning that another shutdown might be necessary if hospitalizations continue to rise. Here’s everything we know about the latest coronavirus developments in Massachusetts…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker toured the field hospital that’s been rebuilt at Worcester’s DCU Center and announced that a second field hospital will be built in the state soon.

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker announces a new COVID-19 field hospital opening in Lowell, after touring another field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester.

With cases continuing to climb in the second surge of the coronavirus crisis, the Massachusetts National Guard is helping to get a field hospital in Worcester up and running by this weekend. Members of the National Guard are on site of the DCU Center on Monday to complete the field hospital’s infrastructure. The 240-bed facility, run by UMass Memorial...

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase in Worcester, Massachusetts, officials are preparing to reopen the field hospital at the DCU Center. “Our trends are not positive, and Worcester is not in a good place right now, as it relates to COVID cases,” said Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus. Augustus is trying to get the message through to people that the…

The DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, is once again being transformed into a field hospital amid a surge of coronavirus cases.

Construction is underway to once again transform Worcester’s DCU Center into a field hospital to relieve stress on the state’s health care system amid the pandemic’s second surge. The UMass Memorial Medical Center, which will again operate the field hospital in its second time functioning as an overflow facility for coronavirus patients, has already received hundreds of applications from...

Construction on the field hospital at the Worcester DCU Center will take a couple of weeks to complete. It’s now the second time the arena will be converted into an overflow medical facility during the pandemic, and will ultimately have 240 beds.

A field hospital used in the spring to help relieve hospitals from surges of COVID-19 patients is reopening.

The DCU Center in Worcester will become a medical field station for COVID-19 patients, handling the overflow from hospitals in central Massachusetts.

The city of Worcester, Massachusetts, is planning for a surge in coronavirus cases and plans to use the DCU Center for patients if necessary, should area hospitals become full.