Worcester State University to become state’s sixth mass vaccination site

WORCESTER, Mass. — A mass vaccination site will open on Feb. 16 on the campus of Worcester State University.

It is the sixth mass vaccination site to be announced statewide. Other sites include Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.

Saint Vincent Hospital will serve as the clinical partner, providing daily clinical and operational leadership at the Worcester State University vaccination site, city officials said in a statement on Thursday.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School and its health care consulting and operations division, Commonwealth Medicine, “will provide logistical, project management and volunteer staffing support,” the statement said.

The Worcester mass vaccination site will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 16. Closer to that date, appointments will be available on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts COVID-19 website.

The site will initially vaccinate several hundred people each day; by March, depending upon availability of the vaccine, the site could inoculate as many as 2,000 people each day it is operational, officials said.

“This site at Worcester State University is an essential part of our efforts to get as many people as possible vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus,” City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. said. “We are deeply thankful to our partners at Saint Vincent Hospital, UMass Medical School, Commonwealth Medicine and Worcester State University for this collaborative effort to increase access to the vaccine as it becomes available to more and more people in our community.”

The vaccination site will be located at the John P. Brissette Competition Court, located inside of the Wellness Center at 486 Chandler Street, on the campus of Worcester State University. Parking will be available at the north end of the campus adjacent to Rockwood Park and the Burkett Little League fields.

Public transportation is available to Worcester State via WRTA Route 6.