Who’s eligible for COVID-19 vaccine and what else to know about program expansion
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Deborah Rutherford, a registered nurse with Michigan Medicine, presses a cotton ball on the arm of Taylor Moody after injecting her with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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Hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine program starting Monday, Jan. 11, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Wednesday.
Three weeks after launching the vaccination program for those in group 1A frontline health-care workers and residents of skilled nursing facilities the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is now opening the program for those in group 1B as well as those age 65 to 74, Whitmer said.
ZEELAND — Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital will have a change in leadership in the new year.Spectrum announced Monday that Ron Lewis, current president of SHZCH among other roles, will depart Spectrum Health to become president and CEO of Blanchard Valley Health System in Findlay, Ohio, effective Jan. 4, 2021.Current SHZCH COO Joe Klesney will take over as interim president of SHZCH and southwest regional market leader during an executive search.John Shull, vice president of
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CADILLAC â Two of Spectrum Healthcare s employees spoke today about being among the first Michiganders to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine.
In a call with reporters, Spectrum President and CEO Tina Freese Decker announced that the healthcare administration had administered its first doses at 12:04 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14.
Front-line and nursing home workers are in the first phase of the vaccine roll-out.
Dr. Marc McClelland, a pulmonologist who has been caring for COVID-19 patients, said he feels fine and that his arm is not sore.
Yvette Kamana, an ICU nurse, said she had initially been skeptical about the vaccine but has become more optimistic and volunteered to be among the first to be vaccinated.