Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall has announced the re-location of several of its physicians within outlying medical clinics, including Fayette.  

The secondary location for Lorenzo Romney, D.O., will move from the Grand River Medical Clinic to Fitzgibbon Family Health in Fayette beginning November 9. He will see patients there every other Thursday. Dr. Romney also will continue seeing patients at his primary location, Marshall Family Practice, as he has done for many years, every other Friday.

An additional site for Alicia Bean, M.D., will be Grand River Medical Clinic in Brunswick. She will begin seeing patients there every Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. starting on November 3. She will also continue seeing patients at the Fayette clinic on Friday mornings.

New Fitzgibbon family physician Andrew Wyant, M.D., will add a practice location in Fayette. Dr. Wyant will begin seeing patients at Fitzgibbon Family Health Fayette every other Thursday starting November 3. He will also continue to see patients at Marshall Family Practice every other Friday starting November 10. These new locations are in addition to his caring for inpatients hospitalized at Fitzgibbon Hospital.

Fitzgibbon also announced patients in its service areas, including Fayette, have access to COVID-19 as part of their routine doctor’s appointments or by request at affiliated clinics. Vaccines produced by both Pfizer and Moderna are available.

“We had to host individual vaccine events in the past because the vials provided to us contained several doses. Once a pack was opened, it had to be administered due to the limited shelf life of the vaccine,” said Susan Forst, director of clinic operations for the Fitzgibbon organization. “Now they are provided to us in single-dose increments so we can conveniently administer each vaccine during a standard appointment. This should make it very convenient.”

The COVID-19 vaccines were initially provided to medical clinics by the federal government as part of their vaccination program. So, initial vaccines during the global pandemic were given without cost to patients. However, now that the pandemic has officially ended, COVID-19 vaccines are now part of the recommended vaccines an individual is encouraged to receive. Thus, the cost to administer the vaccine is subject to billing under a patient’s insurance plan, much like an annual influenza vaccine. 

In addition to the Covid-19 vaccine, Fitzgibbon Hospital-affiliated clinics now have access to the annual influenza vaccine. Individuals are encouraged to receive their flu vaccine by the end of October each year, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that receiving both the influenza and the COVID-19 vaccines at the same time is safe.