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Committee hears request for $3 million to expand CentraCare rural residency programs; members press for fiscal detail
Summary
Representative Perryman sought a $3 million legislative grant to support CentraCare and University of Minnesota residency expansion tied to the new St. Cloud medical campus; witnesses described rural physician shortages, startup costs and a projected structural deficit as residency slots grow.
Representative Perryman presented House File 2,229, a request for a $3,000,000 legislative named grant for FY 2026–27 to support CentraCare’s rural residency program expansion tied to the new University of Minnesota regional medical campus in St. Cloud. The committee moved and laid the bill over for possible inclusion in the higher education finance omnibus bill.
Why it matters: testifiers said the bill addresses an acute physician shortage in rural Minnesota. Perryman described demographic and workforce data showing fewer physicians practicing in rural areas and warned that an aging rural physician workforce increases the urgency for in-state training that yields physicians likely to remain in rural communities.
Medical education and hospital officials described the…
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