Dozens of patients being treated at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Marlboro were left without heat for several hours during freezing temperatures after the boiler system was flooded on Sunday night.
UMass Memorial Health said hospital employees discovered that a large valve had broken, flooding the basement, including the boiler system, just before 6 p.m. The heat was cut off to the entire hospital, according to Marlboro Fire Chief Jeffrey Gogan.
The hospital then went into “Code Black,” prohibiting any new ambulances from arriving. However, it wasn’t until 10 p.m. that a decision was made to move 70 of the 93 patients being treated at the facility to other hospitals, according to Gogan…