Leading the Way in Healthcare & Medical Spine
With thriving medical device innovation and specialized services, Amherst attracts talent and patients from well beyond its borders across New York State, Pennsylvania and Canada.
Industry Overview
A robust ecosystem for specialized care and surgical innovation.
Amherst is at the forefront of healthcare innovation and patient-centered care.
With a thriving medical tourism industry, Amherst attracts patients from across the nearby Canadian border for specialized procedures, contributing to millions in healthcare revenue annually.
Medical specialists provide advanced spinal care, orthopedic research, and neurological treatments.
Key Findings: Healthcare Cluster
Healthcare cluster represents 16% of jobs in MSA, but just 11% of GDP.
With a thriving medical tourism industry, Amherst attracts patients from across the nearby Canadian border for specialized procedures, contributing to millions in healthcare revenue annually.
COVID-19 had significant impacts on cluster, recovery is in process.
Health Services were strongly affected by COVID, but Life Sciences were not.
Many subsectors are very strong in the region and expected to grow.
Leading areas opportunity are: R&D in Life Sciences, Specialty Hospitals, Biological Product Mfg.
Region outperforms national economy in healthcare manufacturing and wholesaling.
Most healthcare related jobs in the region are not high paying.
Leading occupations are mostly lower wage in Health Services; Life Sciences jobs tend to pay more.
Local post-secondary institutions generate a strong talent pipeline.
More than 5,000 annual graduates in healthcare related areas of study, but likely not enough jobs available to retain most graduates.
Medical Spine
The Amherst Medical Spine is not an office park, or a campus, or a well-defined district.
It is a wide but concentrated landscape of medical practices, providers, researchers, and manufacturers – clustered along the spine of the I-290 and extending across the Town of Amherst.
Directly serving a Town of Amherst population rivaling that of Albany or Syracuse, and offering unmatched accessibility to Southern Ontarians and others travelling from outside Amherst to seek care, the medical corridor is an ideal location for any medical practice or organization looking to locate in Western New York.
The corridor includes anchor buildings like the Amherst Health Center, Dent Tower, and UBMD Orthopedic Surgery Center and Medical Building, currently being built near the Northtown Center; as well as a significant number of smaller medical office spaces within this perimeter, plus many other medical offices, clinics, and device manufacturers that are in the perimeter throughout the Town of Amherst.
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