Fast Facts

About The Wright Center for Community Health

  • We offer whole-person primary health services, including medical, dental, and behavioral health care as well as treatment for substance use disorders.
  • We operate a growing network of health centers in Northeast Pennsylvania's Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wayne counties.
  • We are here to serve the entire community. We accept patients of all ages, regardless of the individual’s income level, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, national origin, HIV status, or insurance status.
  • No patient is turned away due to a lack of health insurance or inability to pay. For individuals who qualify based on family size and income, we offer a sliding-fee discount program.
  • In 2019, we were designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration; as such, we are a community-owned, patient-governed organization.
  • We embrace the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model, which encourages the patient to develop an ongoing, trusted relationship with a personal physician, leading to improved care coordination and better health outcomes.
  • We care for patients using a team-based, integrated care approach, allowing patients and their families to access a range of services under one roof.
  • Our Ryan White HIV Clinic, which serves seven counties, offers a full continuum of care to people living with HIV and AIDS, while also providing preventive care to at-risk patients.
  • We provide addiction treatment and recovery support services as a Pennsylvania-designated Opioid Use Disorder Center of Excellence.
  • We became one of the first eight sites in the nation to adopt the award-winning Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program developed by the University of California-Los Angeles.
  • Our Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity Medicine service lines are examples of the many initiatives in which we increasingly focus on preventive care. We work in partnership with our patients to help them avoid, rather than treat, disease.
  • Click here to read our Annual Reports.

About The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education

  • We offer residency training in these disciplines: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
  • We offer fellowship training in these specialties: Cardiovascular Disease, Gastroenterology, and Geriatrics.
  • The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredits all of our training programs.
  • We are one of the nation’s largest Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
  • Our program was founded in 1976 as the Scranton-Temple Residency Program and welcomed its first six Internal Medicine residents to begin training the following year.
  • Renamed The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education in 2010, the organization has grown in size and scope. It now offers multi-specialty residency/fellowship programs that train hundreds of physicians each academic year.
  • We welcome a diverse class of learners each year, attracting resident and fellow physicians from across the U.S. and around the globe.
  • Our physicians train in community-based settings in Northeastern and Eastern Pennsylvania, including the health centers operated by The Wright Center for Community Health.
  • We have more than 1,100 alumni, many of whom chose to enter practice in community health centers or other mission-aligned organizations that provide care in the nation’s medically underserved areas.

About The Wright Center for Patient & Community Engagement

  • We are a subsidiary of The Wright Center for Community Health, serving to further its mission.
  • The Wright Center for Patient & Community Engagement, or PCE, helps many of the region’s most under-resourced individuals and families, including those experiencing food insecurity, homelessness, social isolation, poverty, or other hardships. (These factors are known as social determinants of health).
  • Our PCE team and volunteers address the social determinants of health, in part, by holding community outreach activities such as food distributions, winter coat giveaways, health fairs, and other special, mission-driven projects.
  • We strive to empower patients to be advocates for change, sharing their lived experiences and raising their voices to improve and transform our health center and the health care system nationally.
  • PCE accepts donations and raises funds through events such as an annual golf tournament.