Illuminate the Future with the Gift of Education

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

End-of-Year Giving Welcomes Generous Hearts

We, at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), reach out to our extended family with warm Christmas and holiday wishes of good health, peace, wisdom, and a
courageous resolve to engage in purposeful pursuits in the year to come.

Those who know this estimable institution recognize that a beginning-to-end strategic plan has placed LECOM in the vanguard of medical education, allowing the College to become one of the
most highly respected and applied to healthcare education providers in America. The LECOM imprimatur has become synonymous with educational exceptionalism; as one of the largest medical colleges in the nation, it is transforming lives, bettering health, fueling the economy, and shaping the whole of the healthcare paradigm.

Much has transpired in its three decades of LECOM exceptionalism: an expansive superlative medical education, an abundant community enrichment, a growth of personal character, and a
closely connected alumni. All have been borne of the prophecy of a prescient body of educators and physicians whose idea of the possible has transformed the economic tapestry of the region for the betterment of its graduates and the greater community.

[Link]Those familiar with LECOM need not look far to recognize great leadership. LECOM Founders, under the guidance of President and CEO, John M. Ferretti, D.O., developed this respected nexus of medical education and healthcare. Together, LECOM and LECOM Health provide all of the means of production, educating scholars at the highest level across four campus locations using innovative, student-centered Pathways unique to LECOM; training within its fulsome network of clinical sites, and graduating skillfully trained and wholly capable healthcare professionals prepared to enter the medical arena of the 21st century. Within this framework, funding of future graduates has been a pivotal nugget at the core of the LECOM mission.

Boasting one of the lowest medical school tuitions nationwide, LECOM has held fast to the mission of supporting its medical scholars by offsetting the cost of their education. Since 1994, LECOM has distributed more than $45 million in scholarships to deserving students, including more than $20 million during the last five years alone.

The Annual LECOM Student Scholarship Galas are the chief generators of resources that are used to assist students in defraying and offsetting the cost of their medical education. Each year,
LECOM raises almost $4 million dollars in scholarship aid for deserving scholars. In a time during which there is an increased need for primary care physicians, the need for successfully graduated medical practitioners is felt now more intensely than ever before.

Compounding the results of events, such as the Annual Galas, the LECOM Student Scholarship Fund has received investment support from Auction Gala partners with like-minded goals. LECOM has never wavered in its single-minded focus to educate the next generation of healthcare providers and to better each community that it has come to serve. It has achieved this noble goal through a steadfast drive to fan the winds of fortune, ever directing them toward LECOM scholars and ensuring bold and sustainable student success.

As 2024 draws to a close, LECOM remains invigorated, buoyed by its enduring purpose, and keeping ever at its core the success of each student who crosses its threshold. We join with Americans everywhere in embracing a spirit of renewed hope and comfort that this glorious season brings to our nation and to the world.

We encourage you - in our loyal LECOM family - to make an end-of-year contribution to further the promise of our healthcare progeny. May we, with the hearts of cheerful givers, illuminate the souls of the caring and take a moment to make a gift that truly gives to others, the gift of education. And during this most glorious season of the year, may each of us realize the promise of ancient
and awe-inspiring words: "Peace on Earth to men of Goodwill."

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