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A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot for a nation that has lost more than 285,000 lives to COVID-19.
Dr. Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, is urging the Worcester-based health system's employees to get the coronavirus vaccine when it's expected to begin giving doses next week.
Dickson said he can vouch for the safety of the vaccine himself — he enrolled in a Pfizer clinical trial at the hospital that took place over the summer.
Here’s what you need to know about the latest shutdown of certain hospital procedures, and what to expect in the months ahead.
Dr. Eric Dickson, President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care spoke with Spectrum News 1 Worcester about the COVID-19 vaccine and how the Central Massachusetts health system is prepared to distribute it.
Hospitals will curtail inpatient elective procedures that can be safely postponed starting Friday, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Monday. He said the state’s hospital system is now “struggling” with the increase of hospitalizations since the “rapid increase of new positive cases in the wake of Thanksgiving.”
The targeted procedures impact the inpatient staffing and beds, outpatient procedures have not been impacted at this time.
States in New England dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases are turning to field hospitals. Mola Lenghi toured one set to reopen in Massachusetts just hours before it started accepting patients.
NBC News’ Kathy Park was given access to the field hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, minutes before the first patients arrived. Health care workers on the front lines are preparing for the post-Thanksgiving surge.
The coronavirus surge continued to rock Massachusetts Sunday as Framingham and Cambridge school officials planned to switch students to remote learning this week, and a COVID-19 field hospital in Worcester accepted its first patients.
Governor Charlie Baker warned months ago that the state would face a surge of cases in the fall but continued with reopening plans. On Sunday, public health experts called on the state to take aggressive action now to save lives this winter.
For the second time this year, Worcester will be opening a field hospital at the DCU Center Sunday, but it will be much different than the original version.
The first facility was open for about six weeks last spring and treated more than 150 patients with coronavirus.
This time, it will have 240 beds and once again it will be operated by UMass Memorial Medical Center, which is basically full with COVID patients.
From our perspective — the worst of what we’re going to see for hospitalizations,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Medical Group, following a tour.
Health leaders, even as they confront a tidal wave of COVID-19 infections, are urging anxious patients not to defer critical screenings and appointments as they did during and in the weeks after the spring surge of the virus.
With supply-filled tractor-trailers, the Massachusetts National Guard arrived at the DCU Center early Monday to help set up a field hospital for COVID-19 patients.
The operation is expected to help increase hospital capacity if pandemic cases continue to increase this winter.
Fallout from Thanksgiving travel and festivities could intensify challenges Massachusetts will face as it continues to battle the pandemic through the December holidays, when officials will be navigating more uncertain terrain amid soaring numbers of cases.
While more indications emerge that people are chafing under pandemic restrictions, those measures are vital to curb the spread and ease pressure on the state’s health care system, officials said.
The Birthing Center at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital Leominster campus received a very special and meaningful donation of a Cuddle Cot on Nov. 19, prompted by Katie Hawthorne, whose daughter, Shaylyn, was stillborn in 2018 at 34 weeks two days, and her sister-in-law Lisa Hawthorne.
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Kathleen Driscoll officially assumed her role as UMass Memorial Health Care’s senior vice president and chief philanthropy officer, a newly established position, April 6 as coronavirus cases were surging, intensive care units were filling, and, as part of leading the region’s response to the pandemic, UMMHC was days away from opening the DCU Center as the state’s first field hospital.
Worcester's DCU Center will once again be used as a field hospital to help handle an expected surge of coronavirus cases this fall and winter.
The hospital is expected to open around Dec. 6, UMass Memorial Health Care President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson said in a staff memo Friday. Gov. Charlie Baker detailed some plans for additional bed capacity at a press conference Friday afternoon, saying the DCU Center will have roughly 240 beds.
UMass Memorial Medical Center is no longer allowing visitors to its University Campus in Worcester in a new policy started Tuesday night.
The policy change comes as the campus is seeing a rising number of coronavirus cases, a trend taking place both statewide and nationally. In the most recent data available from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, UMass Memorial's University Campus had 10 inpatient coronavirus cases, with three in intensive care as of Nov. 1.
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