How to help: UMass Memorial Health Care needs caregivers at DCU Center field hospital in Worcester - MassLive.com

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Last week Gov. Charlie Baker announced Worcester’s DCU Center would again be commissioned as a field hospital offering up to 240 beds to help with a surge of coronavirus cases in the state.

Recommissioning the arena into a temporary hospital requires equipment but also people to provide care to patients.

UMass Memorial, which is operating the field hospital at the DCU Center, is looking to hire people in 12 roles to help provide care.

The roles include:

• Advanced Practitioners
• Certified Nurse Assistants
• Medical Interpreters
• Observation Assistants
• Pharmacists
• Pharmacy Technicians
• Physicians
• Registered Nurses
• Registration Representatives
• Respiratory Therapists
• Radiology Technologists
• Social Workers

Like any other hospital facility, the DCU Center will operate 24 hours per day. Those interested in working at the field hospital can register online here and UMass Memorial will reach out.

The DCU Center is expected to start operating as a field hospital again during the first week of December.

A field hospital was first set up at the arena in April as COVID-19 cases first surged, when thousands of people infected with the virus were hospitalized across the state daily.

The DCU Center was decommissioned in June.

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After seeing low levels of transmission in Massachusetts this summer and at the start of the fall, the number of new daily infections and hospitalizations have started to rise. This month, days have been marked by announcements of more than thousands of new coronavirus cases.

Baker told reporters last week that state health officials are more prepared now to address the virus than they were in the spring when much was unknown.

“We’re nowhere near the uncharted territory we were at in the spring. Nowhere near it. Nowhere,” Baker said during a press conference Thursday. “We’re definitely dealing with a surge that we talked about throughout the summer, in the beginning of the fall, and we’re currently the largest per capita tester in the United States. We’re doing somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 tests a day. We were doing 2,000 or 3,000 tests back in March and our ability to identify cases is dramatically better now than it was back then.”

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