UMass Memorial Medical Center

In a flash this spring, Reliant Medical Group in Worcester was suddenly using video and phone technology to have patients meet with health providers for about a quarter of the visits that used to take place in person.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is loosening visitor restrictions for non-coronavirus patients at a time when virus patients are becoming far fewer in number.

The coronavirus pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, and not just in terms of caring for hundreds of stricken patients. The hospital sits in a roughly $75-million deficit, including a loss of $25 million in March and $40 million to $45 million in April.

The field hospital set up at Worcester's DCU Center is winding down operations with fewer than a dozen coronavirus patients in the past few days.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is testing about 70% of its admitted patients for coronavirus and has plans to soon test all.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has a count of coronavirus patients nearing 200, of which 69 are in intensive care. The Worcester hospital is also leading operations at a field hospital at the DCU Center. But hospital leaders are already planning ahead post-surge, with more than 1,000 procedures backed up through April.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, which like other hospitals has had to prohibit nearly all visitors, is now loosening restrictions on visitors to coronavirus patients in end-of-life care.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has expanded the number of COVID-19 patients being treated with the blood plasma of someone who recovered from coronavirus.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has opened a new clinic for expecting mothers who've tested positive for coronavirus or are under investigation for it.

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester has reported encouraging results from the first coronavirus patient it has treated with the blood plasma of a recovered patient.