Your Medical Advantage
Saginaw and the Great Lakes Bay Region

The Great Lakes Bay Region continues to grow as a major medical cluster, providing top-notch health care to the region’s residents, while at the same time providing employment and business opportunities. The regional medical sector is beginning to shape the new economy. Saginaw and the Great Lakes Bay Region have a higher percentage of jobs in the health care sector (at 19.7%) compared to the rest of the nation (15.2%). 

Saginaw County is where everything comes together for manufacturers of medical equipment and health service providers. It has a smart, talented workforce ready for immediate placement. It’s a major healthcare hub and a source for high-tech raw materials. It’s a prime geographic location served by a great transportation and telecommunications infrastructure. It’s a hotbed of education and research.

Saginaw is the advanced multi-specialty care provider for nearly a quarter of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. This has given the region a wealth of state-of-the-art healthcare facilities and some of the Midwest’s most talented providers. This puts a tremendous amount of healthcare knowledge and experience in our own back yard, and offers a pool of employees, advisors and medical directors well-versed in nearly every specialty. It also offers the sort of medical research capabilities one would expect to find only in a Top 10 market. Saginaw County is a leader in research in the neurosciences, cardiovascular health, radiation oncology and many other fields.