The field hospital, located in Bourne, Mass., had 94 beds and was set up in case area hospitals in the area didn’t have enough room to treat COVID-19 patients.
But Massachusetts hospitals never reached capacity. As a result, the hospital closed this week, and Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare stopped staffing the temporary hospital.
Michael Lauf, president and CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare told the publication that it is a positive that the temporary hospital was not used, because it meant the surge numbers were never reached.
The field hospital was one of several set up in Massachusetts to handle a potential surge in COVID-19 patients. The plan was to use the field hospital as a place to treat COVID-19 patients who had been discharged from the hospital but were not healthy enough to return home.
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