The stories behind Michigan - Great Lakes Current

• Great Lakes Current: Rebuilding What Heals — “Great Lakes Current” compares biomedical repair work directly to Michigan’s manufacturing tradition: taking something worn and making it work again.

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From Detroit steel to the lakeside cranes

Morning rolls in on the freight line trains

Hands know the weight of a wrench and wire

Turning worn out parts into something higher

In every workshop, every hospital room, careful

eyes make a future bloom.

Michigan, keep that current running blue water bright hearts

engines humming biomedical technicians steady and true

rebuilding what heals maintain what gets us through improving

Every monitor, every bed,

every light.

Michigan makers making tomorrow right.

Grand Rapids mornings, Erie winds.

A bench lamp shines where the repair begins.

They test each circuit, clean each seam, bring a silent machine

back into the team.

From the Sioux down to

Kalamazoo, a better day is built by you.

Michigan, keep that current running

Blue water, bright hearts, engines humming

Biomedical technicians, steady and true

Rebuilding what heals, maintaining what gets us through

Improving every monitor,

every bed, every life

Michigan

Michigan makers

Making tomorrow right

Lake Superior, Michigan, Michigan

Here on and here we carry the work

Where people need it dearly

No grand parade, just a promise kept

One more patient saved, one more breath kept

Michigan, keep that current and running from factory floors to the

care lots humming biomedical technicians steady and true

rebuilding what heals improving what we use maintaining hope

with every careful line great lakes communities your hands are the

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keep the current alive

keep the current alive

Keep the current alive