Grant will train, attract new doctors

A grant totaling $1.2 million over five years from the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association Foundation will help Centra establish a rural family medicine residency program in Farmville, expanding primary care training and efforts to recruit physicians to Southside Virginia. Awarded through Virginia’s Rural Health Transformation Program, the funding will support a new rural track within Centra’s Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency program. Beginning in July 2027, the program will add two residents annually. The first group will train in Lynchburg for one year before moving to Farmville in July 2028 to complete the final two years of residency. The program will serve seven Southside Virginia counties — Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Prince Edward — that Centra said are federally designated as having primary care shortages and medically underserved areas or populations. Dr.

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