Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association

Worst-case scenarios predicted Mass. hospitals would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. That didn’t happen.

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By Felice J. Freyer

Hospitals proved nimble in increasing the number of intensive care patients they could treat, swiftly tripling the number of ICU beds statewide.

In recent interviews, hospital leaders described how they did it — and how this spring’s challenges prepared them for a likely second surge in the fall.

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