Kalamazoo Family Health Center Receives Grant for COVID Vaccination Efforts

Meridian of Michigan is proud to announce the Family Health Center in Kalamazoo was recognized as one of Centene’s top 100 providers nationwide with the highest increase in vaccination rates. The team received a $5,000 grant from Meridian for medical equipment as part of an initiative Centene, Meridian’s parent company, announced last year to encourage providers nationwide to educate members about…

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Boarding a freighter in the Soo Locks to deliver 5 doses of COVID vaccine

SAULT STE. MARIE—In hard hats and safety vests, the two women shimmy up aluminum boarding ladders onto a converted World War II tanker. The rumble of the ship’s 8,040-horsepower engine makes conversation near-impossible on this blue sky morning. But public health workers Charity Zimmerman, a nurse, and Jill Schaefer, a clerk, know the drill on…

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Family Health Center Reaches Pandemic Milestone: 5,000 COVID-19 Vaccinations and Counting

Partnership Fuels Effort to Protect Hard-Hit Neighborhoods;  Future Vaccination Clinics Planned  KALAMAZOO, Michigan A free, large-scale, community-based vaccination effort spearheaded by Family Health Center has surpassed 5,000 vaccinations to combat COVID-19.  The campaign began in January to ensure the first and second doses of vaccines were easily available to people within Kalamazoo’s hardest-hit neighborhoods. That…

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Drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic to administer 500-plus doses in Kalamazoo

A drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic is scheduled for Friday in Kalamazoo. Family Health Center will administer at least 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine during a drive-through clinic from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 26, at Mayor’s Riverfront Park, 251 Mills St. in Kalamazoo. Appointments are required prior to showing up at the…

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Mayors Riverfront Park to Host Drive-Thru COVID Clinic

Need your COVID-19 shot? Here’s how to get your appointment for the mass vaccination clinic scheduled at Kalamazoo’s Mayors Riverfront Park on Friday. Lifetime fans are getting a lifeline as idle sports venues across the country are being used as mass vaccination sites. Ford Field, the home of the Lions in Detroit, opened on March…

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