Civil Municipal Magazine - Nov 2023

126 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 population grew by 20 percent. Twenty years later, though, it was time to leave. The present into the future Today, Saginaw is a city on the rebound, always reaching for the American Dream, regardless of how it may have been denied from time to time due to detours and roadblocks on its ongoing economic journey. City Manager, Tim Morales, believes that Saginaw’s renaissance will be powered by the medical industry, currently its top employer, and anchored by its three major hospitals: the Aleda E. Lutz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Covenant Medical Center, and Ascension Saint Mary’s of Michigan with its renowned Field Neuroscience Institute. The city’s medical educational complex also includes the Central Michigan University (CMU) College of Medicine, Saginaw Valley State University’s Department of Nursing, and the Ross Medical Education Center Saginaw campus. INNOVATE SERVE EMPOWER www.sisd.cc