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LANSING — Sparrow Hospital has open COVID-19 appointments available Wednesday and Thursday for essential healthcare workers and people over 65.  Hospital spokesperson John Foren said there are "dozens of openings" that need to be filled. No one else in the 1B vaccine group is able to be vaccinated at Sparrow. Anyone who is 65 and older or an essential healthcare worker can sign up for the vaccine on the MySparrow application. Vaccines are by appointment only.  Sparrow Hospital's vaccination site is at 3131 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing, near the Frandor shopping complex. 

LANSING — Slots for COVID-19 vaccinations filled up "within hours" of Sparrow Hospital making appointments available to people over 70 and frontline workers, a hospital spokesman said.Sparrow has about 2,860 Pfizer vaccine doses to give out this week to people in those categories and the hospital system is booked through the end of day Saturday, spokesman John Foren said Tuesday.Sparrow opened up vaccinations starting Tuesday to people who live or work in Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Montcalm

One of the heartbreaking parts of this Covid-19 pandemic, has been the many who have died in the hospital without the comfort of loved ones. Hospitals and medical facilities around the country have maintained a no visitors rule. Many of our front line workers have been the ones to spend the final moments of a Covid-19 patient's life with them, oftentimes while a family member is on a phone and the Nurse has to tell them they passed. It’s not only tough on the patients and their families, but the front line workers in the hospital as well. Sparrow Hospital is about to change that policy as t...

First COVID-19 vaccinations provide sense of hope for Michigan hospitals Updated Dec 15, 2020; Posted Dec 15, 2020 A truck carry the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is loaded at Pfizer Global Supply plant in Portage, Michigan on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com Facebook Share Michigan health care workers began receiving the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, Dec. 14. Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids and Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor were the first health systems to report front line workers being vaccinated Monday. “It’s great to have thi...