State health data show the seven-day average of hospitalizations due to the virus was nearly 1,600 patients statewide. That figure has more than doubled in the last month.
Public health officials hope the directive will free up inpatient beds and preserve already stretched staffing resources.
Gov. Charlie Baker also deployed several hundred members of the Massachusetts National Guard to local hospitals Monday to help relieve pressure on hospital staff as cases climb. Dr. Melisa Lai-Becker, who runs the emergency department at Cambridge Health Alliance's Everett hospital, said the Guard members will take on tasks like sitting with behavioral health patients, allowing nurses and doctors to handle other care.
"Because we really need to have everyone working at the top of their license while we work through the number of quarantines, isolations, staff callouts," she said. She said the emergency room is currently running at 130% capacity, with just 70% of its regular staffing levels for nurses.
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