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City & State PA names Spadaro to statewide ‘Who’s Who in Government Relations’ list


A longtime employee of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education has been included in a statewide list honoring the most influential individuals who help their companies, organizations, and associations communicate their legislative priorities to elected officials.

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Laura Spadaro, vice president of primary care and public health
policy and chief primary care and public health policy officer
at The Wright Center

Laura Spadaro, vice president of primary care and public health policy and chief primary care and public health policy officer at The Wright Center, has been named to City & State Pennsylvania’s “Who’s Who in Government Relations.” She joins Teresa Osborne, a Northeast Pennsylvania native and former state secretary of aging who now serves as the state advocacy director for AARP Pennsylvania; Stephanie Watkins, senior vice president of advocacy & policy at Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania; and Gregory Thall, the former secretary of the budget in Gov. Tom Wolf’s Cabinet who now serves as vice president of budget & regulatory affairs for GSL Public Strategies Group.

Spadaro joined The Wright Center in February 2021, where she has played a pivotal role in advocating for federal and state policies impacting public health, particularly for community health centers. Her work addresses critical issues such as equitable investments in Federally Qualified Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alikes, sustainable funding for Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education programs, protections for the 340B Drug Pricing Program, health care workforce innovations, and greater health information interoperability, vaccine access, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for key primary care and preventive health services.

Under her leadership, The Wright Center has secured $4 million to support underserved communities, achieved gold-status Advocacy Center recognition, and amplified primary care clinicians’ voices through over 50 regulatory responses.

Before joining The Wright Center, Spadaro worked at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where she led initiatives to curb the opioid epidemic, maternal mortality, gun violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

City & State is the premier multimedia news organization dedicated to covering Pennsylvania’s local and state politics and policy. To read the “Who’s Who in Government Relations” article, go to www.cityandstatepa.com.

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