Skip to navigation Skip to Content

Search

Menu
Search Marshfield Clinic Health System
Join a world-class health system. Find jobs

Marshfield Clinic Health System gives COVID-19 vaccinations to frontline health care workers

​Dec. 16, 2020

Marshfield Clinic Health System today received its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and has begun giving vaccinations to frontline health care workers.

Marshfield Medical Center in Marshfield is an initial distribution site to serve northcentral Wisconsin in the state "hub-and-spoke" model for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. As the hub, allocated vaccines will be sent in the coming days to other health care systems, public health departments and long-term care facilities based on confirmation from the State of Wisconsin.  

"The COVID-19 pandemic has been a historically challenging time for the communities we serve and for people all around the world," said Dr. Susan Turney, Marshfield Clinic Health System CEO. "While we know it will take time to distribute this vaccine across the country, having even a limited amount in hand creates an unmistakable feeling of hope that we could end this pandemic in the coming months. Our Health System is proud to be an initial distribution hub of the vaccine for northcentral Wisconsin."

We will not be receiving a large number of vaccines in this first shipment for disbursement to the hubs and for our own use, but additional vaccines will be arriving in the following days and weeks.

In the meantime, we continue refining the plans and processes for distributing the vaccine and training our nurses, nursing assistants, and other clinic technicians and support staff so they can safely administer the vaccine.

Marshfield Clinic Health System will provide additional information about vaccination distribution as soon it is able. Visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html or https://marshfieldclin​ic.org/specialties/infectious-diseases/coronavirus-update for more information about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccination. 


 Media Relations

John Gardner
Marshfield Clinic Health System Director of Communications
715 221-8659
gardner.john
@marshfieldclinic.org

Jeff Starck
Senior Media Relations Specialist - Marshfield, Eau Claire, Park Falls, Neillsville & Minocqua
715 389-4978
starck.jeffrey
@marshfieldclinic.org

Dan Baulch
Senior Communications
Specialist -
Beaver Dam
920 887-4152
baulch.dan
@marshfieldclinic.org

Candy Marg
Community Relations Manager - Neillsville
715 819-8459
marg.candace
@marshfieldclinic.org

Becca Pehlke
Communications Specialist - Ladysmith & Rice Lake
715 609-3284
pehlke.rebecca
@marshfieldclinic.org

Jim Korth
Communications Specialist – Wausau/Weston
715-679-5455
korth.james
@marshfieldclinic.org

Joe Rizzo
Director of Public Relations and Business Development –
Marshfield Medical
Center-Dickinson
906-776-5671
Joe.Rizzo@dchs.org