{"id":75735,"date":"2021-12-21T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/12\/21\/massachusetts-activates-national-guard-to-support-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:08:33","slug":"massachusetts-activates-national-guard-to-support-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/12\/21\/massachusetts-activates-national-guard-to-support-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts activates National Guard to support hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BOSTON \u2014 Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday he will activate up to 500 members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/11\/08\/massachusetts-national-guards-bus-driving-mission-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Guard<\/a> to support understaffed hospitals across the state facing a surge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19<\/a> patients and to bolster non-emergency medical transportation needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up to 300 Guard members will begin training this week to provide nonclinical support at 55 acute care hospitals and 12 ambulance service providers, Marylou Sudders, state Secretary of Health and Human Services said at a news conference. They will be deployed Dec. 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal is to ensure that hospitals have sufficient capacity to care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no question the next few weeks will be enormously difficult for our health care community,\u201d the Republican governor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/12\/21\/white-house-to-deploy-1000-more-troops-to-help-with-covid-surge\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6521662.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" 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