IRS 990 Nonprofit Profile

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education

Hrsa's thcgme program has been an effective tool in addressing one of the most crucial aspects of the primary care cliff: nondiscriminatory access to and affordability of primary whole person health services in underserved areas due to a national primary care physician shortage and mis-distribution. additionally, teaching health center community-governed gme-snc platforms magnetize and optimize the educational capacity of communities for interprofessional health care workforce development because they generate unprecedented collaboration and champs partnerships, evidenced by twcgme's thriving academic institutional affiliations. twcgme's gme-snc, as a result, has proudly delivered to its affiliate, twcch, 54% of its primary care physician workforce, including internal medicine, family medicine, and geriatrics physicians, 92% of its certified registered nurse practitioners, and 88% of its physician assistants. moreover, 25% of twcch's public health dentists recently completed nyu langone's coda accredited advanced education general dentistry (aegd) residency at our health center participating site, a program that launched in 2020. one third of twcch's medical assistants completed clinical training with the gme-snc, several through our partnership with national institute for medical assistant advancement and nepa readiness in skilled employment programs. mission driven partnership with our northeast pennsylvania ahec supports interprofessional students rotating with us and ensured training and certification of all 10 of twcch's community health workers. five of seventy certified recovery specialists trained and certified through the gme-snc's engagement and project progress are continuing provision of addiction and recovery services at twcch. because of these talent development, recruitment, and retention outcomes, the gme-snc is exploring expanded academic partnerships to integrate clinical training for lpns, dental assistants, case managers, and integrated behavioral and mental health professionals, including mental health peer specialists, as well as a family medicine crnp primary care fellowship. many additional individuals trained in the gme-snc are actively practicing in regional partnering organizations, predominantly in underserved settings. twcgme's current sponsoring institutional and programmatic primary health services curricula are rooted in community-immersed, public health needs-responsive, fully integrated, comprehensive whole person primary care training for family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, and physical medicine and rehabilitation residents, as well as geriatric medicine, cardiovascular disease, and gastroenterology fellows. residents and fellows are deeply immersed in community-driven, responsive solutions to the relentless opioid epidemic, continuing battles with hiv/aids and hepatitis c, escalating public health challenges related to mental health struggles, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and the ever widening gaps in evidence based childhood and adult vaccination rates for preventable illnesses. our community-based training model within essential community provider networks continued to successfully leverage cross-institutional collaborative learning and broad exposure of trainees to interprofessional team-based care, as well as a variety of health information technology platforms, for both care delivery and educational outcomes reporting and continuous improvements. twcgme's partnering clinical learning environments demonstrate and engage its learners in continuous quality improvement and value-driven workflow redesign that promotes patient-centered medical home (pcmh) physician-led interprofessional care teams, leveraging engaged and empowered physicians in practice and training, students, patients and families, robust referral networks of community resource agencies, and both meaningful use and connectivity/interoperability of health and education information technology platforms. mission-driven, top-license pcmh faculty practice and role-modeling within these safety-net learning environments efficiently optimizes workflow redistribution so that every team member, including front-line staff and learners, engage in purposeful, meaningful practice while contributing to iterative and continuous, community oriented quality improvements of both care delivery and educational systems. twcgme's sponsoring institutional commitment to advancing public health powerfully aligns with the mission of community health centers and partnering community-based hospitals, as well as the acgme's visionary sponsoring institution 2025 and its clinical learning environment review program framework focusing on patient safety, health care quality, teaming, well-being, professionalism, and supervision. twcgme's gme-snc ensures that trainees have broad exposure to seamless, cross-institutional, interprofessional multidisciplinary clinical learning environments that exercise and nurture their abilities to connect with patients and families, while enriching their longitudinal and transitional care delivery skills and preparing them for able, modern clinical practice and careers of public service as public health enthusiasts.

Filing year

2023

Total revenue

$47.9M

Total expenses

$46.7M

Program expenses

$30.7M

Administration

$16.0M

Fundraising

$0

Program share of expenses

66%

EIN

232007832

Location

Scranton, PA

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