Milford Regional Medical Center Updates Masking Guidelines in Clinical Care Locations

Effective immediately, all Milford Regional healthcare personnel will be required to wear a facility-issued face mask in direct interactions with patients in clinical care locations. This includes when entering a patient room or bay or other locations where care is delivered (e.g., examining a patient on a stretcher).

Patients and visitors are strongly encouraged to wear a facility-issued face mask when interacting with healthcare personnel in clinical care locations.

This decision is based on the COVID-19 Planning Committee’s close monitoring of several trends, including the number of employees out of work with COVID-19, the number of inpatients with COVID-19, the percent of positive tests in the community for COVID-19, and the wastewater COVID-19 data. We will continue to monitor these trends in order to de-escalate our use of masks as soon as appropriate. Although this change was not unexpected, we appreciate your flexibility with the modified masking requirements at this time.

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Milford Regional Medical Center is a full-service, community and regional teaching hospital located in Milford, Mass. Together with its affiliated physician group, Milford Regional Physician Group, it serves patients from more than 20 towns in Central Massachusetts. The 148-bed medical center is a nonprofit, acute-care facility, where more than 300 primary care and specialty physicians are committed to providing exceptional healthcare services to our community with dignity, compassion and respect.