WORCESTER, Mass. - The state's only remaining COVID-19 field hospital has officially set a closing date.

DCU Center Field Hospital leaders tell Spectrum News 1 they will stop accepting patients around the middle of next week and will take a tactical pause on Monday, March 15. 

Any patients still in need of care will be transferred to other sites. 

The state will keep some of the field hospital's equipment in place as a precautionary measure. 

As of Friday morning, there were seven patients at the DCU Center, and hospitalizations across the state continue to drop. 

Field Hospital Medical Director Dr. John Broach said, “We'll have all the staff out, no patients in as of 7 PM on the 15th of March. We'll leave some of the physical infrastructure in place so that if another surge were to happen or if we needed more capacity at the state level that we could rapidly turn it back on."

Associate Chief Nursing Officer Pete Lancette said, “Between Phase 1 and Phase 2, we’re approaching 1,000 citizens that have been served by the DCU, whether it was on the shelter side or the hospital side so that was a big lift out of our traditional hospitals."

In the 14 weeks of the DCU Center's second deployment, a total of 640 patients have been cared for. The average patient stay has been approximately four and a half days, and the average age of patients in care is 64 years old.