Orthopedic Surgery Opportunity: General Orthopedics with Sports Interest in Mid Michigan

Covenant HealthCare | Covenant Medical Group

Saginaw, Michigan (Great Lakes Bay Region)

Practice Overview & Opportunity Highlights

Covenant Medical Group is seeking a Board Certified or actively Board Eligible Orthopedic Surgeon to join our premier, highly respected musculoskeletal team in Saginaw, Michigan. This opportunity is tailored for a broad generalist who enjoys fracture care, joint procedures, and general orthopedic cases, coupled with a component of basic sports medicine (e.g., knee/shoulder arthroscopy, ACL reconstructions, rotator cuff repairs) and an interest in community or athletic team coverage.

You will be joining an established, collaborative network of 23 providers across the region, stepping directly into an immediate patient base driven by practice growth, successor recruitment, and a structured senior practice transition.

• Balanced Clinical Cadence: Enjoy a sustainable, customizable schedule typically featuring 2 to 3 clinic days and 2 to 3 OR days per week.
• Turnkey Practice & High Demand: Immediate surgical volume alongside robust elective arthroscopy and soft-tissue cases.
• State-of-the-Art Surgical Facilities: Inpatient surgical suites at the Covenant Main Campus feature dedicated orthopedic trauma and swing rooms, specialized radiolucent fracture tables, intraoperative fluoroscopy, and advanced arthroscopic video towers. Outpatient cases are performed at the nearby Mackinaw Surgery Center.
• Premier Instrumentation & Support: Stryker is the preferred system for power equipment, arthroscopy towers, and joint/trauma consignment implants. Operating rooms are staffed exclusively by employed, experienced surgical circulators, scrub techs, and certified first-assist PAs.
• Flexible Group Block Time: Operative block time is coordinated collaboratively, allowing surgeons to readily access open block time from colleagues on non-operating days.
• Exceptional Practice Support: Fully integrated Epic EMR. Documentation is streamlined with practice-funded scribes provided at no overhead cost to the physician, as well as dictation options. Dedicated MAs handle rooming, casting, splinting, and dressing changes.
• Team-Based APP Model: Supported by a network of 10+ Advanced Practice Providers. Personal APP support is assigned as volume expands, complemented by a dedicated inpatient APP rounding service during the week and a structured weekend APP rounding rotation.
• Equitable ER Call Schedule: Low-burden emergency call of 3 to 5 call shifts per month (~48 days per year), taken from home with standard callback. Inpatients are primarily admitted through the Hospitalist/Trauma services, with orthopedics acting as the surgical consultant. Unassigned ER call shifts are compensated separately.

Exciting Growth: Brand-New $25 Million Orthopedics Facility

This is an exceptional time to join our program. Covenant HealthCare has broken ground on a new, $25 million, 25,700-square-foot state-of-the-art Orthopedics Facility on the Mackinaw Campus along Tittabawassee Road in Saginaw Township:

• Comprehensive Under-One-Roof Care: Bringing together orthopedic surgeons, dedicated sports medicine physicians, surgical podiatrists, APPs, and Mary Free Bed Orthotics & Prosthetics.
• Modern Outpatient Infrastructure: Designed with 44 exam rooms (allocating 3–4 dedicated rooms per surgeon on clinic days), 4 digital X-ray suites, 4 procedure rooms, 2 casting bays, and specialized diagnostic ultrasound.
• Regional Landmark Innovation: Home to Covenant OrthoExpress, one of the region’s only walk-in orthopedic urgent care centers, capturing acute community injuries and funneling surgical cases directly into the group.

(Candidates onboarding prior to late spring will start at our established Gratiot practice, transitioning smoothly into the new center.)

Compensation & Comprehensive Benefits

Covenant Medical Group offers an executive-level, highly competitive compensation model designed to deliver outstanding overall earning potential:

• Competitive Base Salary Guarantee: Generous, MGMA-benchmarked base salary guarantee for typically 2  years.
• Productivity Incentives: High-upside wRVU production bonuses paid above threshold.
• Commencement Bonus: Substantial, negotiable sign-on bonus.
• Student Loan Assistance: Available and negotiable.
• Relocation Package: Up to $15,000 in relocation reimbursement.
• Comprehensive CMG Benefits: Fully employer-paid malpractice insurance with tail coverage, generous annual CME stipend and days, comprehensive health/dental/vision/life coverage, disability protection, and  top-hat retirement plans

Candidate Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
• Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) / American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Surgery (AOBOS), or actively Board Eligible.
• Open to graduating residents/fellows as well as experienced practicing surgeons.
• Desire to build a high-volume general orthopedic and basic sports practice within a collegial group while participating in local athletic team coverage.
• Note: Due to program parameters, H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.

About Covenant HealthCare & The Great Lakes Bay Region

Covenant HealthCare is the leading non-profit health system in central Michigan, employing thousands of staff and healthcare professionals across acute-care campuses, specialized surgical centers, and regional clinics. Recognized for clinical excellence, advanced technology, and compassionate community delivery, Covenant provides extraordinary care across every generation.

Life in the Great Lakes Bay Region:

Located in mid-Michigan, the Saginaw and Great Lakes Bay Region (encompassing Saginaw, Freeland, Bay City, and Frankenmuth) offers an unbeatable blend of small-town charm, suburban convenience, and low cost of living:

• Family & Education: Outstanding public school districts, prestigious parochial systems, and easy access to higher education institutions like Saginaw Valley State University.
• Community & Culture: Rich historic downtowns, vibrant waterfront dining along the Saginaw River and Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay, the world-famous Bavarian architecture of Frankenmuth, and local arts festivals.
• Outdoor Recreation: Minutes from world-class freshwater fishing, extensive paved trail networks, golf courses, boating, and quick highway access to Northern Michigan's premier lakefronts and ski resorts.
• Accessible Travel: Centrally situated with direct commercial flights out of MBS International Airport (MBS) and easy highway connections (I-75 / US-10) to Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Grand Rapids.

Covenant HealthCare is one of the largest, most comprehensive health care providers north of metro Detroit. Located in the heart of the Great Lakes Bay Region, Covenant is the sixth largest hospital in Michigan with 623-beds and the regions only Level II Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center including air medical transport service. We have more than 20 inpatient and outpatient facilities, including two major acute care medical centers and servicing people from more than 20 counties across central and northeast Michigan. In addition, Covenant also has the only regional neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.

Covenant offers a broad spectrum of programs and services ranging from high-risk obstetrics, neonatal and pediatric intensive care, to acute care including a Level II Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, robotic surgery and many other services. As a non-profit, our extraordinary care goes beyond our outstanding medical services. It’s our compassionate and caring team that makes the difference; their support means you always have someone by your side from diagnosis to recovery. We go above and beyond for our patients every day, and in every way. And that extraordinary commitment extends to the communities we serve. Because by working together for a healthier community, we can build a better tomorrow for generations to come. 

As the region's preferred hospital and leader in electronic medical records (utilizing EPIC), we support research, education and technology serving as a major teaching hospital in addition to providing training facilities for Central Michigan Universities brand new medical education program in 2013.

• Covenant HealthCare is a major teaching institute for Central Michigan Universities Medical Program and the newly anointed Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine which includes their 9 residencies, 3 fellowships and medical student population.
• Covenant has set the standard for hospital medicine programs nationwide. We have a 24/7 program that allows family medicine physicians to practice in an outpatient setting.
• Covenant is the largest health care provider in the region and largest health care employer in Saginaw County
• 4,600+ employees, 500+ volunteers and more than 500+ physicians on medical staff
• 312,500+ Primary Care and Specialist encounters through Covenant Medical Group

The economically diverse County of Saginaw is located in the central portion of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and is part of the Great Lakes Bay Region. Saginaw County, with a population of nearly 200,000 residents, is a hub of research, product development, and manufacturing for the auto, chemical, silicon, advanced materials, and technology industries.  The Great Lakes Bay Region also has a strong position as a retail and tourist destination, which coincides with exceptional quality of life.  Saginaw county offers a plethora of four seasons activities including, but not limited to, boating, fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, hunting, theater, and concerts to name a few. Parks, lakes, rail trails, and plenty of extra circular activities are all available to please the entire family.  The Great Lakes Bay Region boasts a very accommodating cost of living that affords beautiful homes in many lovely settings, be it urban, suburban, or rural.  Shoreline living at its finest is also available!