St. Joseph Mercy Hospital near Ann Arbor receives 975 doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, MI Coronavirus vaccines are underway at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital near Ann Arbor.
The health system received the shipment of 975 doses of the FDA-Approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Dec. 17 at its Ann Arbor-area hospital, according to a news release.
“We will continue to vaccinate as many employees as possible each week. We are confident in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and strongly encourage everyone ages 16 and older to be vaccinated as the vaccine becomes more widely available,” said Dr. Rosalie Tocco-Bradley, chief clinical officer at Trinity Health Michigan, he umbrella of the St. Joseph Mercy health system, in a statement.
Mercy Health, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Bovia, Christine
and last updated 2020-12-17 16:55:31-05
CANTON AND NORTON SHORES, Mich. â Mercy Health and St. Joseph Mercy Health System have received their first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at four of their hospitals, according to a news release Thursday.
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland and Mercy Health St. Maryâs in Grand Rapids have each received 975 doses, with Mercy Health Muskegon receiving 1,950 earlier Thursday.
The vaccines are being administered on a voluntary basis to health care personnel who meet the CDC-defined criteria of direct patient care to COVID-19 patients.
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Five of McLaren Health Care s 15 hospitals on Thursday morning received UPS shipments of vaccines totaling 5,850 doses, said Barton Buxton, president and CEO of McLaren Health Management Group, who is coordinating vaccine efforts. They all came in at once. . There are no promises (of how many). You ask for doses. We asked (the state) for more than 30,000 for our 15 hospitals in the first delivery wave. We asked for the same number for the second delivery, Buxton said.
Originally published on December 14, 2020 8:08 pm
Dr. Darryl Elmouchi got the notice Sunday night that the package was on the way. The cardiologist, who serves as president of West Michigan’s largest hospital system, got an alert through Spectrum Health’s command center, saying the initial shipment of 975 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was on the way.
“It literally felt like we were receiving a package from Amazon or Best Buy,” Elmouchi said during a Zoom call with media on Monday.
Spectrum Health’s main hospital, Butterworth, is a one-hour drive from the Pfizer facility in Portage where workers are churning out thousands of doses of the first vaccine approved in the U.S. to protect against the disease that’s now killed more than 300,000 Americans.
First COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Michigan
Two Michigan hospital systems administered the first COVID-19 vaccinations in the state on Monday, injecting the Michigan-produced Pfizer vaccine into front-line workers.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine and Spectrum Health s Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids were the first to begin vaccinating workers in the state the beginning of a massive inoculation rollout in Michigan expected to expand to other hospital systems in the coming days. It was momentous to see this happen for the first time, Spectrum President and CEO Tina Freese Decker announced at a Monday afternoon press conference.
The Grand Rapids-based health system, which has 14 hospitals in west Michigan, received its first shipment of 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine shortly after 9 a.m. and administered its first vaccination just hours later at 12:04 p.m., Freese Decker said.