UMass Memorial Health Care to start paying rent for COVID field hospital at Worcester DCU Center
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
UMass Memorial Health Care has agreed to start paying full rent for space it’s using at the Worcester DCU Center to run a COVID-19 field hospital.
The Central Massachusetts health care system first ran a field hospital there last spring during the initial surge of the pandemic. When case counts rose again in the fall, the field hospital reopened and started treating patients in December.
In November, the Civic Center Commission voted to allow UMass Memorial to use the space rent-free for two months. Following a commission meeting Thursday, UMass Memorial has agreed to start paying full rental costs.
Weekly cost to run Worcester DCU Center as COVID field hospital estimated around $28,000, documents say
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
For the second time this year, Worcester’s DCU Center has become an integral part of the city’s mitigation of COVID-19 and transformed into a field hospital for patients suffering from the virus.
UMass Memorial Health Care is running the field hospital at the arena. While the physical space is being provided free of cost to UMass Memorial for at least two months, the health care system will be billed for other costs to run the field hospital, estimated to cost tens of thousands each week, according to documents.
How Worcester attracts big Hollywood productions and their big bucks
WORCESTER With hockey players and rock musicians absent from the DCU Center, the stage was clear for Meryl Streep. The Academy Award winner filmed a scene for Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” inside the city-owned arena last week.
At the DCU or on Main Street, the clack of a camera slate is a familiar one in Worcester. A handful of movies have filmed scenes in the city in recent years, from Liam Neeson in Honest Thief to Matthew McConaughey in The Sea of Trees.
Behind the scenes, one of the more important members of the supporting cast is Edgar Luna. If you’re a Hollywood bigshot or a small independent movie company and you want to film in Worcester, you have to speak to Luna first.
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