Medical Main Street creates new directory

Oakland County's Medical Main Street has created the state's first medical device manufacturing directory to help global medical device companies find suppliers in Michigan. "The world knows Metro Detroit as a strong place for manufacturing in automotive and in defense," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said. "Very few know about the strong base we have here in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The directory - compiled by the Department of Economic Development & Community Affairs - has an easy-to-read chart that identifies companies by manufacturing processes such as injection molding, electronics or precision cutting. It includes an alphabetical listing of 62 companies with full contact information for each. "When we met with the global device companies, they said they would like to find suppliers in Michigan but there was no easy way to identify specific suppliers in the state--or any state for that matter," Patterson said. "This directory is must-reading for anyone looking to find a medical device company in Oakland County or in Michigan." The free directory can be found on the Medical Main Street website at www.medicalmainstreet.org and on the LINKEDIN group for Medical Main Street. Copies can also be obtained sending an e-mail to info@medicalmainstreet.org. Oakland County's Medical Main Street is an alliance of world-class hospitals, universities, medical device, biopharma companies and some of the country's top medical professionals creating a global center of innovation in health care, research and development, education and commercialization in the life sciences industry. Medical Main Street assembled a board of industry leaders to provide advice and support for the initiative. The members are: William Beaumont Hospitals, Ferndale Laboratories, Henry Ford Health Systems, Housey Pharmaceuticals, Beckman Coulter Molecular Diagnostics, McLaren Health Care Corp., MichBio, Oakland University, Providence Park Hospital, Rockwell Medical Technologies, St. Joseph's /Trinity Health, Oakland Community College and Crittenton Hospital. The alliance also includes representatives from a wide range of organizations that support the mission of Medical Main Street. These ambassadors support the effort by: assisting in marketing and promoting our region, providing introductions for county officials to health care suppliers and life science companies, and participating in and providing support staff for Medical Main Street task forces and events. Medical Main Street is part of Oakland County's Emerging Sectors® business attraction and retention strategy, which has generated more than $1.6 billion of new investment and created or retained 34,000 jobs in the county since 2004. Visit www.MedicalMainStreet.org to get involved in the medical solutions of the future. Published: Thu, Feb 24, 2011

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