Anvan Wright Center, Gill te yon doktè asiste nan Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center ak yon pwofesè asistan nan Penn State College of Medicine nan Depatman Medsin Fanmi ak Kominotè. Li te wè pasyan tou nan Penn State Medical Group Camp Hill.

Yon diplome nan Penn State University, Gill te resevwa Doktè nan Medsin nan Jefferson Medical College nan Thomas Jefferson University nan Philadelphia. Li te konplete rezidans li nan medsin familyal nan University of Pittsburgh Medical Center St. Margaret Hospital. Nan University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Gill te konplete yon bous nan devlopman fakilte, kote li te genyen tou yon metriz miltidisiplinè nan sante piblik.

Gill is a member of the American Association of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Family Medicine Education Consortium. She is on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health, the chairperson of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Oral Health Collaborative, and a steering committee member of Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum.

Sant Wright la se youn nan pi gwo konsòsyòm Edikasyon Medikal gradye nan Teaching Health Center ke Administrasyon an te finanse nan peyi a. Li ofri rezidans nan kat disiplin - medsin familyal, medikaman entèn, medikaman fizik ak reyabilitasyon, ak sikyatri - ansanm ak bous nan maladi kadyovaskilè, gastroenteroloji, ak jeryatrik. Tout pwogram li yo akredite pa Konsèy Akreditasyon pou Edikasyon Medikal Gradye.

Vizite TheWrightCenter.org pou aprann plis sou fason mendèv doktè Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education ap edike ak fòme pwochen jenerasyon doktè ak founisè entè-pwofesyonèl yo.

Pwogram rezidans rejyonal yo akeyi 51 doktè

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education welcomed 51 new resident physicians into its regional residency programs after achieving a 100% match on National Match Day for aspiring doctors.

The National Resident Matching Program’s Match Day is held annually on the third Friday of March. Medical students nation- and worldwide simultaneously learn at which U.S. residency program they will train for the next three to seven years. It is one of the most important and competitive processes in the medical school experience.

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education looks forward to Match Day each year as it learns which medical school graduates will continue their training in its Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited, comprehensive, and community-focused residency programs in Northeast Pennsylvania. The Wright Center is one of the largest Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Consortiums in the country, with more than 245 physicians in training.

The Wright Center matched residents in the following regional programs: Family Medicine Residency (13); Internal Medicine Residency (33); and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency (5). Resident physicians will begin the first year of their residencies on July 1 in Scranton.

The incoming first-year residents hail from 13 countries: Bahrain (1); Canada (6); China (1); India (9); Nepal (3); Pakistan (12); Philippines (2); Saint Lucia (1); Saudi Arabia (1); Serbia (1); Uganda (1); United Kingdom (1); and the United States (12).

The residency programs received 5,072 applications and interviewed 516 candidates, or about 10.17% of the applicants. The National Resident Matching Program makes residency matches, using a mathematical algorithm to pair graduating medical students with open training positions at teaching health centers, educational consortia, hospitals, and other institutions across the U.S. The model considers the top choices of both students and residency programs.

“Match Day is one of the most exciting days of the academic year and a celebration to welcome our new residents,” said Jumee Barooah, M.D., designated institutional official and senior vice president of education at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. “For the residents, the day represents the culmination of years of hard work and perseverance that began at an early age. For The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, it marks another milestone in meeting our mission.”

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education was established in 1976 as the Scranton-Temple Residency Program, a community-based internal medicine residency. Today, The Wright Center is one of the nation’s largest HRSA-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums. Together with consortium stakeholders, The Wright Center trains residents and fellows in a community-based, community-needs-responsive workforce development model to advance their shared mission to provide whole-person primary health services regardless of their insurance status, ZIP code, or ability to pay.

The Wright Center offers ACGME accredited residencies in three disciplines – family medicine, internal medicine, and physical medicine & rehabilitation – as well as fellowships in cardiovascular disease, gastroenterology, and geriatrics.

Wright Center te kòmanse ofri sèvis dantè nan Mid Valley Practice, 5 S. Washington Ave., Jermyn, an 2013 epi answit te elaji nan Scranton Practice, 501 S. Washington Ave. Byen bonè ane sa a, Wilkes-Barre Practice, 169 N. . Pennsylvania Ave., te kòmanse bay sèvis dantè woutin – ki gen ladan egzamen, radyografi, ak netwayaj – pou timoun ak granmoun lendi ak madi. Pou aprann plis oswa pran yon randevou, vizite TheWrightCenter.org/services/dental oswa rele 570-230-0019.

Wright Center aksepte pifò asirans dantè, tankou Delta Dental, Guardian, United Concordia, ak Asistans Medikal (Medicaid). Pou asire bon jan kalite swen oral disponib pou tout moun, Wright Center ofri yon pwogram rabè pou frè glisman pou moun ki kalifye yo dapre Gid Povrete Federal ki konsidere gwosè ak revni fanmi an. Pa gen pasyan yo vire do bay akòz yon enkapasite pou peye.

Jounen Mondyal Sante Oral se yon inisyativ FDI World Dental Federation, ki reprezante plis pase 1 milyon dantis atravè lemond.

Doktè Linda Thomas-Hemak, prezidan ak Direktè Jeneral Sant Wright pou Sante Kominotè ak Edikasyon Medikal Gradye, sant, te resevwa rekonpans Hometown Scholar Advocate of the Year pandan yon reyinyon komite pratik klinik nan Asosyasyon Nasyonal Sant Sante Kominotè Policy & Issues. Fowòm nan Washington, DC K ap patisipe nan pwogram nan se Douglas Spegman, MD, agoch, manm konsèy, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education; ak Gary L. Cloud, Ph.D., MBA, adwat, vis prezidan patenarya inivèsite nan AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine nan Arizona. Prim lan rekonèt Doktè Thomas-Hemak pou efò pasyone li, ki baze sou misyon li, pou l idantifye ak konseye fiti doktè, dantis, asistan doktè, ak lòt pwofesyonèl swen sante ki soti nan Nòdès Pennsylvania.

Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, recently received the Hometown Scholars Advocate of the Year award in recognition of her passionate, mission-driven efforts to identify and mentor future physicians, dentists, physician assistants, and other health care professionals who are from Northeast Pennsylvania.

Dr. Thomas received the award on Sunday, Feb. 11, during a clinical practice committee meeting at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Policy & Issues Forum in Washington, D.C.

The Hometown Scholars program is a collaborative effort between NACHC and A.T. Still University. The program was established to identify and recruit individuals from areas served by community health centers to pursue professional degrees and become community-minded healers, including physicians, dentists, and physician assistants, who are inclined to return to work in those or similar medically underserved communities in the United States.

“The National Association of Community Health Centers and A.T. Still University have a strategy to dare children to dream, mentor them along their pathway into the health professions, and endorse those with the heart to return and work in underserved communities,” said Gary L. Cloud, Ph.D., MBA, vice president of university partnerships at A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. “Dr. Thomas-Hemak and The Wright Center have been exemplary supporters of that strategy encouraging community members, patients, and employees to participate and serve as role models for aspiring healers.”

At participating community health centers, leaders are encouraged to intentionally identify and nominate qualified and motivated premedical, predental, and pre-health professional candidates from their communities for Hometown Scholars Program consideration, providing each with a letter of support. This endorsement, in turn, may give the candidate advanced applicant consideration when applying to medical school or dental school at A.T. Still University’s programs in Arizona or its physician assistant program in California.

“It’s been a privilege for me, on behalf of The Wright Center for Community Health, to nominate individuals from Northeast Pennsylvania to be our health center’s endorsed Hometown Scholars,” said Thomas-Hemak. “Because of the Hometown Scholars program, we’ve been able to identify and mentor aspiring physicians, dentists, and physician assistants from the communities we serve and help them pursue their professional goals. Such pipeline programs promote career access and they restore our community’s public health-minded health care workforce.

“I’m particularly pleased that many of The Wright Center-endorsed scholars are women for whom this program has provided real opportunities,” she added.

For The Wright Center, its years-long participation in the Hometown Scholars program represents another way it works to sustain and grow a pipeline for primary care workforce development in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region, supporting career growth for people who have knowledge about and interest in serving low-income and other traditionally underserved populations.

To learn more and nominate someone to be a Wright Center-endorsed Hometown Scholar, please call its Office of Clerkships at 570-591-5116 or visit TheWrightCenter.org/hometown-scholars.

Mid Valley kenbe distenksyon pou Entegrasyon Sante Konpòtman

Modèl Kay Medikal ki Santre sou Pasyan an fèt pou pèmèt pasyan yo ak ekip swen yo bati pi bon relasyon, ede pasyan yo kontwole pi efikasman kondisyon kwonik yo, epi amelyore eksperyans pasyan an jeneral.

Anplis de sa, yo montre modèl la ogmante satisfaksyon anplwaye yo epi redwi depans swen sante yo.

Pou piblik la, akreditasyon NCQA se yon siyal ke Sant Wright pou Sante Kominotè kenbe yon konsantre sou amelyorasyon kalite epi li gen pwosesis kle an plas pou klinik li yo ap priyorite bezwen pasyan yo.

"Nou fyè pou nou kenbe so rekonesans sa a nan kat pi gwo pratik nou yo," te di Doktè Jignesh Sheth, anchèf medikal ak enfòmasyon nan Sant Wright pou Sante Kominotè. “So NCQA fè piblik la konnen n ap fè tout sa nou kapab pou mete pasyan yo nan premye swen, tankou lè nou louvri klinik sa yo andeyò lè ouvrab tradisyonèl yo pou satisfè bezwen swen prensipal moun yo.

An patikilye, Doktè Sheth te bay travay anplwaye Wright Center yo ap fè pou itilize yon sistèm livrezon ki baze sou ekip ak teknoloji enfòmasyon pou kowòdone swen epi jwenn pi bon rezilta posib pou pasyan yo.

Sètifikasyon Mid Valley Practice genyen yon lòt distenksyon NCQA nan entegrasyon sante konpòtmantal. Rekonesans sa a se pou pratik ki pwouve yo gen ekip swen apwopriye an plas pou jere gwo bezwen pasyan ki gen kondisyon ki gen rapò ak sante konpòtman.

Margaret E. O'Kane, prezidan NCQA di, “Anpil fwa, se yon founisè swen prensipal ki idantifye pwoblèm sante konpòtmantal yo. “Se konsa, ajoute sèvis swen sante konpòtmantal nan yon anviwònman swen prensipal se yon opòtinite reyèl pou pasyan yo. Li kraze baryè ki genyen nan swen konpòtman yo epi li amelyore sante an jeneral."

Wright Center opere 10 pratik swen prensipal ak prevantif nan Nòdès Pennsylvania, ki gen ladan yon machin mobil medikal ak dantè ki rele Driving Better Health. Pratik li yo ofri swen entegre pou tout moun, tipikman bay pasyan yo konvenyans pou yo ale nan yon sèl kote pou jwenn aksè nan swen medikal, dantè, ak swen sante konpòtman, osi byen ke tretman dejwe nan kominote a ak sèvis rekiperasyon.

Sant Wright la aksepte pi gwo plan asirans sante, tankou Asistans Medikal (Medicaid), Medicare, ak CHIP. Pa gen pasyan yo vire do bay akòz yon enkapasite pou peye.

Pou ede moun veye kont yon potansyèl trip menas enfeksyon respiratwa otòn ak ivè sa a, Sant Wright pou Sante Kominotè ap ofri aksè a vaksen ki fèk mete ajou pou grip, RSV ak dènye souch COVID-19 la.

Men sa ou dwe konnen sou disponiblite chak pwodui vaksen nan Sant Wright la.

• Vaksen kont grip. Mizajou vaksen kont grip pou sezon ivè 2023-24 la nan tout pratik swen prensipal sant sante a nan konte Lackawanna, Luzerne ak Wayne. Ofisyèl sante yo rekòmande vaksen kont grip anyèl pou tout moun ki gen 6 mwa oswa plis, ak kèk eksepsyon.
  • Ekspè yo konseye moun Ozetazini pran vaksen ant kounye a ak Halloween pou pwoteksyon maksimòm pandan jou ferye ivè yo lè ka grip yo gen tandans ogmante. Tout vaksen kont grip ki disponib Ozetazini pou sezon sa a se varyete kwadrivalan, sa vle di yo fèt pou pwoteje kont kat viris grip diferan, dapre Sant pou Kontwòl ak Prevansyon Maladi (CDC).

• Vaksen RSV. Nan kòmansman ane sa a, ofisyèl sante federal yo te apwouve de vaksen pou moun ki gen laj 60 an oswa plis pou anpeche viris respiratwa syncytial, ke yo rele RSV. Wright Center kounye a gen vaksen Pfizer-fabrike, Abrysvo, nan stock nan tout pratik li yo pou administre granmoun aje ki deside, an konsiltasyon ak yon founisè swen sante, si vaksen an apwopriye pou yo. Adilt ki gen plis chans pou benefisye vaksen an gen ladan moun k ap viv nan etablisman swen alontèm ak moun ki gen pwoblèm sante kache, tankou maladi kè oswa nan poumon oswa sistèm iminitè febli.
  • Nouvo vaksen RSV pou granmoun aje yo ta ka mande yon preskripsyon nan men yon doktè, dapre rapò ki pibliye, epi pri li yo ka varye selon plan asirans sante pasyan an. Gen kèk plan ki ka pa peye pou piki a. Nenpòt moun ki konsène sou kouvèti asirans yo ta dwe kontakte konpayi asirans yo pou konsèy.

• Vaksen kont kovid-19. Kòm anbakman vaksen COVID-19 ki te apwouve ki pi resan an rive, ki efikas kont souch EG.5 ki domine kounye a, Sant Wright la pral pibliye anons piblik adisyonèl. Gade pou detay yo pral pataje byento atravè sit entènèt sant sante a ak chanèl medya sosyal yo.
  • Gid sou rete ajou sou vaksen COVID-19 ak dòz apwopriye disponib sou sit entènèt CDC a.

Si w gen kesyon sou nenpòt vaksen, pale ak doktè ou oswa yon lòt founisè swen sante ou fè konfyans. Ekip klinik la nan Sant Wright la disponib pou bay konsèy ki baze sou reyalite ak estrateji pwouve pou fè fas ak viris respiratwa ak lòt pwoblèm ki afekte sante ak byennèt.

Aprann plis sou misyon Wright Center a ak sèvis swen sante entegre lè w vizite TheWrightCenter.org .