You Can Make an Impact on Rural Health Care!

Our Future Doctors

Minnesota’s rural communities are facing a growing physician shortage. Without immediate, strategic investment in rural residency training, many areas will struggle to maintain access to basic care.

The new University of Minnesota Medical School Campus St. Cloud was founded to help solve this crisis. These students are the future of rural health care — but medical school debt threatens to pull them away from the communities that need them most.

Your gift will help provide scholarships for medical students so they can focus on their studies.

Your support will also:

Expand access to high-quality medical education in Central Minnesota
Attract medical students with a passion for rural health care
Strengthen the rural physician pipeline across our region

Double Your Impact!

BCI Construction, Inc., is matching every dollar donated by Dec. 31— up to $100,000 — for medical student scholarships.

Donate Today!

Your support can empower students like Emma Lundgren to become compassionate physicians who bring vital care to our rural communities. Emma is the first recipient of the CentraCare Foundation Scholarship for Rural Medicine.

Emma Lundgren

Shaping the Future of Rural Health Care

While 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, only 11% of physicians practice there. In rural Minnesota, one-third of physicians plan to retire by 2027. Data from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that as of 2024, there were about 33 family medicine physicians per 100,000 people in metro areas but fewer than three per 100,000 in rural areas. Research shows most physicians stay near where they train, making medical education in Greater Minnesota a vital solution to this crisis.

Training rural physicians and expanding access to high-quality care throughout our local communities will help:

Strengthen rural health care systems
Improve access to timely, high-quality care
Support equitable health outcomes
Boost long-term economic vitality in rural regions

For every physician, $1.5–2 million in downstream revenue flow back into the communities where they work and live.

Thank You to BCI Construction, Inc.

Thanks to the generosity of BCI Construction, Inc., every dollar donated by Dec. 31, 2025, will be matched up to $100,000. Proceeds will benefit scholarships for the University of Minnesota Medical School Campus St. Cloud.