Lakewood Rural Residency Program

Located on the same campus as the hospital, the Staples clinic provides primary care, urgent care, and access to best-in-class specialists such as oncology, orthopedics, endocrinology, cardiology, and rheumatology for patients of all ages. The clinic has nearly 30 family medicine providers, including physicians and advanced practice providers. Many of the clinic’s physicians practice full-spectrum family medicine and provide care in the clinic, on the inpatient floor and in the emergency department.

A personalized approach to care helps patients feel at home, building collaborative care relationships founded on trust. Residents will rotate at this site in PGY2 and PGY3.

Patient population:

The clinic serves approximately 30,000 people across three core rural counties (Todd, Wadena, and Morrison) and several more distant counties in North Central Minnesota. Residents of these communities face significant health disparities due to inequities in rural health access, high poverty, and uninsurance rates.

For example, the Staples-Motley community, which is the core service area of Lakewood Health System, has a child poverty rate approximately two times higher than that of the state of Minnesota. Around nine to 11 percent of the adult population and four to nine percent of children remain uninsured in the core three-county area.

The program’s service area has high Maternity Care Target Area (MCTA) scores of 14-18, amongst the highest in Minnesota, and the primary clinical site (Lakewood Health System) frequently provides obstetric services to patients who travel more than 40 miles to deliver. The population is predominantly non-hispanic white and English-speaking, though there is increasing racial and ethnic diversity primarily driven by migration for work in meat-packing, agriculture, and animal husbandry.

Facilities:

• 70 exam rooms, four procedure rooms
• Electronic medical record fully integrated with the hospital
• Clinic-integrated lab draw and X-ray, with full laboratory and radiology services on campus
• Dedicated residents’ space conveniently located along the continuity clinic core hallways

Broadway Family Medicine Clinic 

Located in North Minneapolis on the corner of 26th Ave. and Broadway Avenue, the clinic is a short 15-minute walk or two-minute drive to North Memorial Hospital.

Broadway Family Medicine Clinic’s saying is "The community makes us relevant." Providers put patients and community first in order to maintain a rich learning environment. The Broadway clinic is a health care home that has been serving North Minneapolis for more than 40 years. Residents will spend their first year at Broadway Family Medicine Clinic.

Patient population

• African American
• White
• Hmong
• Latinx
• Native American
• Somali and other African immigrants

Features and services

• Hmong interpreter on-site
• Bimonthly colposcopy clinics
• Weekly sports medicine clinics
• Medication therapy management
• Community health worker, care coordinators, and a social worker in clinic full time

Facilities

• Electronic medical record fully integrated with the hospital
• 24 exam rooms, plus two multi-purpose consult rooms
• OB ultrasound and fetal monitoring on-site
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound
• Laboratory and x-ray services on-site
• Osteopathic manipulation rooms with adjustable tables
• Two procedure rooms
• 1,000-square-foot residents' room with print and electronic resources
• Counseling room for behavioral therapy 

Lakewood Health System Hospital (LHS) is a 25-bed, critical access hospital serving the central Minnesota counties of Todd, Morrison, Wadena, and Cass. At LHS, a dedicated group of family medicine physicians and advanced practice clinicians provide primary care, obstetrics, inpatient and emergency care in collaboration with specialty physicians and surgeons such as general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, pediatrics, hematology/oncology, cardiology, rheumatology, endocrinology, otolaryngology and palliative care. Five of the family physicians provide surgical obstetric care. Together, this dedicated team performs approximately 5,000 surgeries, provides care for about 500 births, and logs almost 10,000 emergency department visits each year. Family medicine physicians are the largest group of specialists at Lakewood in that they provide care across multiple domains at the hospital and clinics.

Lakewood’s mission is to provide quality, personalized care for a lifetime. The hospital’s features include:

• High-volume critical access labor and birth unit (approximately 500 births per year)
• Level III trauma center
• Brand-new Cancer Center and nationally recognized Rural Oncology Home opened in 2025
• Robust Community Health investments: The Nest wellness facility, pickleball courts, Farmer’s Market and more
• Modern operating rooms, labor and delivery, and more

North Memorial Health Robbinsdale Hospital

North Memorial Health Hospital is a primary care focused tertiary care center where family medicine is the only full-time residency present. 

• Level I trauma center (one of three in the Twin Cities) with high-volume care
• Family medicine is the largest specialty in the hospital

Children’s Health - Minneapolis Hospital

Inpatient pediatrics and pediatric ER rotations will be completed at Children’s Hospital during PGY1. Children’s Hospital is a premier pediatric training environment, providing exposure to common pediatric acute illness as well as the state’s primary Level I pediatric trauma center.

Peaceful yet packed with fun activities all year round, Staples will leave you feeling recharged and energized every day. Here are just a few highlights:

• Longest pier in Minnesota at Dower Lake
• Multiple parks including Dower Lake, Pine Grove, and Old Wadena
• Bike trails, hiking trails, tennis, and pickleball courts
• An 18-hole championship public golf course that runs alongside the pristine Crow Wing River
• Recreation on the Crow Wing River including kayaking, tubing, and fishing
• Winter sports such as cross country skiing, snowmobiling, and ice fishing
• Ample high school sporting events and coaching opportunities
• Performing arts, both high school age and community adult groups, such as men’s choir and Lamplighter theater
• Railroad Days in August with free events, activities, and a downtown parade
• Outdoor concerts in the summer

Located in the heart of Minnesota at the intersection of Highways 10 and 210, Staples offers easy access to Brainerd and the Detroit Lakes area, as well as to the Twin Cities metropolitan area, while maintaining its small-town charm.