Medical School, Duluth

Urgent shortages in Minnesota’s health care workforce are looming across the state as the Minnesota Department of Health reports one in three rural physicians plan to leave the workforce within the next five years. Similar trends are noted for nurses, emergency medical services and mental health providers. 

NRRI researchers find that size of fire matters less than intensity of the blaze. Wildfires in northern Minnesota are increasing – the number, the size and the intensity. Within most folks' memories are the Ham Lake Fire (2007), Pagami Creek Fire (2012) and most recently, the Greenwood Fire (2021). Each scorched large swaths of the state’s prized wilderness areas and challenged humans who were too close.

The University of Minnesota is proposing to design and build a new academic health care center located in the Duluth Medical District.

UMD is one of 12 universities partaking in a new Purpose-Driven Plant-Based Incubator™ program.