Fort Gratiot Township has only two senior-living addresses, but both are large and both run from apartments through memory care. Mercy Village on 24th Avenue holds 100 beds and Lakeshore Woods on Lakeshore Road holds 78, giving the township 178 beds with 44 secured for memory care.
St. Clair County is older than Michigan as a whole, with roughly 34,700 residents past 65, about 21.7 percent against the state's 19.6. Two buildings carrying a full continuum is how a county with that age profile concentrates its inventory rather than scattering it.
How Two Buildings Cover Four Care Levels
With only two addresses, the township covers three of the four standard levels at both, which is why the choice here is unusually simple.
- Independent Living: Both offer apartments, $3,200 at Mercy Village and $3,800 at Lakeshore Woods, with the later levels inside the same building rather than down the road.
- Assisted Living: Both charge exactly $4,200, so the decision between a 100-bed building and a 78-bed one rests on which suits the person moving.
- Memory Care: Both run secured neighborhoods at $5,500, holding 20 beds at Mercy Village and 24 at Lakeshore Woods, substantial for a township this size.
- Skilled Nursing: Neither carries it, so nursing-level care is arranged through the hospitals in Port Huron rather than on either campus.
Because both run the same three levels at nearly the same prices, a household here chooses a building rather than a care plan, and a later move up stays in place.
Healthcare Access in Fort Gratiot Township
McLaren Port Huron anchors clinical care for the township, sitting just south of the line with 186 beds and the only nationally verified trauma center in St. Clair County, re-verified by the American College of Surgeons at Level III.
Lake Huron Medical Center on Electric Avenue is the second Port Huron option, covering cardiac and stroke care, orthopedics and joint replacement, bariatric surgery and inpatient rehabilitation under Prime Healthcare. Cases needing a Level I trauma center travel 59 miles down I-94 toward Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak.
What Fort Gratiot Township Pricing Looks Like
The two buildings charge identical figures at two of the three levels they offer in 2026, $4,200 for assisted living and $5,500 for memory care, which removes price from the comparison almost entirely.
Independent living is where they part, at $3,200 at Mercy Village against $3,800 at Lakeshore Woods, a gap that reflects the apartments rather than the care. Moving into assisted living costs $1,000 more at Mercy Village and $400 more at Lakeshore Woods, and memory care adds $1,300 at either address.
Why Families Choose Fort Gratiot Township
The Fort Gratiot Light Station holds the oldest lighthouse in Michigan, lit in 1829, and the county park around it keeps a public beach and grounds open daily from seven in the morning until ten at night.
Lakeshore Woods sits on the same road as that shoreline, which is the sort of detail that settles things for a household that has spent forty years on the lake and has no intention of moving inland now.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Fort Gratiot Township
The local advisor's job here is narrower than most, because with two buildings the question is rarely which but when a room of the right kind comes free. A Local Senior Advisor covering the Blue Water area tracks openings across the 44 secured beds, knows how McLaren Port Huron times its discharges, and can say plainly what Michigan's MI Choice waiver covers, which is the care rather than the apartment.
Our directory for Fort Gratiot Township continues to grow as we evaluate providers for quality and alignment in 2026. Reach out for a conversation about senior living in Fort Gratiot Township, or browse the communities we have vetted at your own pace.
