Mbere ya Wright Centre, Gill yari umuganga witabiriye ikigo nderabuzima cya Leta ya Penn Milton S. Hershey akaba n'umwarimu wungirije mu Ishuri Rikuru ry’Ubuvuzi rya Penn mu ishami ry’umuryango n’ubuvuzi rusange. Yabonye kandi abarwayi kuri Penn State Medical Group Camp Hill.

Umunyeshuri urangije kaminuza ya Penn, Gill yakiriye Dogiteri w’ubuvuzi yakuye muri Jefferson Medical College ya kaminuza ya Thomas Jefferson muri Philadelphia. Yarangije gutura mu buvuzi bw'umuryango mu bitaro by’ubuvuzi bya kaminuza ya Pittsburgh. Mu ishuri ry’ubuvuzi rya kaminuza ya Pittsburgh, Gill yarangije ubusabane mu iterambere ry’abarimu, aho yanabonye impamyabumenyi ihanitse mu bumenyi rusange mu buzima rusange.

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.

Ikigo cya Wright ni kimwe mu binini binini by’ubuzima muri Leta zunze ubumwe za Amerika byatewe inkunga n’ubuyobozi bushinzwe gutera inkunga ikigo cyita ku buzima cy’ubuvuzi cya Graduate Medical Education consortiums mu gihugu. Itanga gutura mubyiciro bine - ubuvuzi bwumuryango, ubuvuzi bwimbere, ubuvuzi bwumubiri & reabilité, hamwe nubuvuzi bwo mu mutwe - hamwe nubusabane mu ndwara zifata umutima, gastroenterology, na geriatrics. Gahunda zayo zose zemewe ninama ishinzwe kwemeza impamyabumenyi yubuvuzi.

Sura TheWrightCenter.org kugirango umenye byinshi byukuntu umuyoboro wa Wright Centre for Graduate Medical Education umuganga wumuganga wabakozi wigisha kandi uhugura ibisekuru bizaza byabaganga nabatanga ibisobanuro.

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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.

Ikigo cya Wright cyatangiye gutanga serivisi z’amenyo ahitwa Mid Valley Practice, 5 S. Washington Ave., Jermyn, mu 2013 hanyuma kigera no kuri Scranton Practice, 501 S. Washington Ave. Mu ntangiriro zuyu mwaka, imyitozo ya Wilkes-Barre, 169 N Umuhanda wa Pennsylvania. Kugira ngo umenye byinshi cyangwa gukora gahunda, sura TheWrightCenter.org/services/amenyo cyangwa uhamagare 570-230-0019.

Ikigo cya Wright cyemera ubwishingizi bw'amenyo menshi, harimo Delta Dental, Murinzi, United Concordia, hamwe n'Ubuvuzi (Medicaid). Kugira ngo ubuvuzi bwo mu kanwa bufite ireme bugere kuri buri wese, Ikigo cya Wright gitanga gahunda yo kugabanyirizwa amafaranga ku bantu bujuje ibisabwa hashingiwe ku Mabwiriza ngenderwaho y’ubukene atekereza ingano y’umuryango n’amafaranga yinjiza. Nta murwayi wanze kubera kutabasha kwishyura.

Umunsi mpuzamahanga w’ubuzima bwo mu kanwa ni gahunda y’ishyirahamwe ry’amenyo rya FDI ku isi, rihagarariye abavuzi b’amenyo barenga miliyoni 1 ku isi.

Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, perezida akaba n’umuyobozi mukuru w’ikigo cya Wright Centre for Health Health and Graduate Medical Education, centre, yahawe igihembo cy’umuvoka w’umwaka wa Hometown mu nama ya komite ishinzwe amavuriro yabereye mu ishyirahamwe ry’igihugu ry’ibigo nderabuzima bya Politiki n’ibibazo. Ihuriro i Washington, DC Abitabiriye gahunda ni Douglas Spegman, MD, ibumoso, umwe mu bagize inama y'ubutegetsi, Wright Centre for Graduate Medical Education; na Gary L. Cloud, impamyabumenyi y'ikirenga, MBA, iburyo, visi perezida w’ubufatanye bwa kaminuza mu ishuri rya AT still University of Osteopathic Medicine muri Arizona. Iki gihembo gishimirwa na Dr. Thomas-Hemak kubera imbaraga nyinshi, zishingiye ku butumwa bwo kumenya no guhugura abaganga, amenyo, abafasha b'abaganga, n'abandi bahanga mu by'ubuzima baturutse mu majyaruguru y'uburasirazuba bwa 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.

Ikibaya cyo hagati gikomeza gutandukanya ubuzima bwimyitwarire

Icyitegererezo cy’ubuvuzi cy’abarwayi cyashyizweho kugira ngo abarwayi n’itsinda ryabo ryita ku mibanire myiza, bafashe abarwayi kurushaho kurwanya neza indwara zidakira, no kunoza uburambe bw’abarwayi muri rusange.

Byongeye kandi, icyitegererezo cyerekanwe kongerera abakozi kunyurwa no kugabanya amafaranga yo kwivuza.

Kubaturage, kwemererwa kwa NCQA nikimenyetso cyuko Wright Centre yubuzima bwabaturage ikomeza kwibanda ku kuzamura ireme kandi ifite inzira zingenzi kuburyo amavuriro yayo ashyira imbere ibyo abarwayi bakeneye.

Dr. Jignesh Sheth, umuyobozi mukuru w’ubuvuzi n’amakuru mu kigo cyita ku buzima bw’abaturage, yagize ati: "Twishimiye kugumana iki kimenyetso cyo kumenyekanisha ibikorwa byacu bine binini." “Ikirangantego cya NCQA kimenyesha abaturage ko dukora ibishoboka byose kugira ngo dushyire abarwayi ku mwanya wa mbere mu kwita, harimo no gufungura aya mavuriro hanze y'amasaha y'akazi kugira ngo abantu babone ubuvuzi bw'ibanze.

By'umwihariko, Dr. Sheth yashimye ko imirimo ikorwa n'abakozi ba Wright Centre yo gukoresha uburyo bwo gutanga amakuru bushingiye ku matsinda hamwe n'ikoranabuhanga mu itumanaho kugira ngo bahuze ubuvuzi kandi babone ibisubizo byiza bishoboka ku barwayi.

Icyemezo cya Mid Valley Practice gitanga itandukaniro rya NCQA muguhuza ubuzima bwimyitwarire. Uku kumenyekana ni kubikorwa byagaragaye ko bafite itsinda ryita kubitaho kugirango bakemure ibibazo byinshi by’abarwayi bafite ibibazo bijyanye n’ubuzima bw’imyitwarire.

Perezida wa NCQA, Margaret E. O'Kane yagize ati: "Inshuro nyinshi, ubuzima bw’imyitwarire bwamenyekanye bwa mbere n’ubuvuzi bwibanze." Ati: “Rero, kongera serivisi zita ku buzima bwimyitwarire mu rwego rwibanze ni amahirwe nyayo ku barwayi. Ikuraho inzitizi zibangamira imyitwarire kandi itezimbere ubuzima muri rusange. ”

Ikigo cya Wright gikora ibikorwa 10 byibanze no gukumira mu majyaruguru yuburasirazuba bwa Pennsylvania, harimo n’imodoka igendanwa n’amenyo yitwa Driving Better Health. Imikorere yacyo itanga ubuvuzi bwuzuye bwabantu bose, mubisanzwe biha abarwayi uburyo bwo kujya ahantu hamwe kugirango babone ubuvuzi, amenyo, n’imyitwarire y’imyitwarire, ndetse na serivisi zita ku baturage no kuvura indwara.

Ikigo cya Wright cyemera gahunda nyinshi zubwishingizi bwubuzima, harimo Ubuvuzi (Medicaid), Medicare, na CHIP. Nta murwayi wanze kubera kutabasha kwishyura.

Mu rwego rwo gufasha abantu kwirinda iterabwoba rishobora kwandura gatatu mu gihe cyizuba n'itumba, Ikigo cyita ku buzima bw’abaturage gitanga uburyo bwo kubona inkingo nshya zavuguruwe z’ibicurane, RSV hamwe n’indwara ya COVID-19 iheruka.

Dore ibyo kumenya kubijyanye no kuboneka muri Wright Centre ya buri gicuruzwa cyinkingo.

• Inkingo z'ibicurane. Urukingo rw'ibicurane ruvuguruwe mu gihe cy'itumba cya 2023-24 ruri mu bubiko bw'ikigo nderabuzima cyose cyita ku buzima bw'ibanze mu ntara za Lackawanna, Luzerne na Wayne. Abashinzwe ubuzima barasaba ko ibicurane by’ibicurane buri mwaka ku mezi 6 nayirenga, usibye bake.
  • Abahanga baragira inama ko abantu bo muri Amerika bakingirwa hagati ya Halloween na Halloween kugira ngo birinde cyane mu biruhuko by'itumba igihe indwara y'ibicurane ikunda kwiyongera. Inkingo zose z’ibicurane ziboneka muri Amerika muri iki gihembwe ni ubwoko butandukanye, bivuze ko zagenewe gukingira virusi enye z’ibicurane, nk’uko ikigo cy’Amerika gishinzwe kurwanya no gukumira indwara (CDC) kibitangaza.

• Inkingo za RSV. Mu ntangiriro z'uyu mwaka, abashinzwe ubuzima muri federasiyo bemeje inkingo ebyiri zo gukoreshwa mu bantu bafite imyaka 60 n'abayirengeje kugira ngo birinde virusi y'ubuhumekero, izwi ku izina rya RSV. Muri iki gihe Wright Centre ifite urukingo rwakozwe na Pfizer, Abrysvo, mu bubiko mu bikorwa byayo byose kugira ngo ruyobore abageze mu za bukuru bahitamo, babigishije inama n’ushinzwe ubuzima, niba isasu ribakwiriye. Abantu bakuru bakunze kungukirwa nuru rukingo harimo ababa mu bigo nderabuzima byigihe kirekire ndetse nabafite ubuzima bw’ibanze bw’ubuzima, nk'indwara z'umutima cyangwa ibihaha cyangwa sisitemu z'umubiri zidakomeye.
  • Inkingo nshya za RSV ku bageze mu za bukuru zishobora gusaba umuganga kwa muganga, nk'uko raporo zashyizwe ahagaragara zibitangaza, kandi igiciro cyacyo gishobora gutandukana bitewe na gahunda y'ubwishingizi bw'indwara bw'umurwayi. Gahunda zimwe zishobora kutishyura amafuti. Umuntu wese uhangayikishijwe nubwishingizi agomba kwegera isosiyete yabo yubwishingizi kugirango ikuyobore.

• Inkingo za COVID-19. Mu gihe ibicuruzwa bigeze ku rukingo rwa COVID-19 ruherutse kwemezwa, rukaba rufite akamaro mu kurwanya ubu EG.5 yiganje, ikigo cya Wright kizashyira ahagaragara andi matangazo rusange. Reba ibisobanuro bisangiwe vuba ukoresheje urubuga rwikigo nderabuzima hamwe nimbuga nkoranyambaga.
  • Amabwiriza ajyanye no kugezwaho amakuru ku nkingo za COVID-19 no kuyikoresha neza uraboneka kurubuga rwa CDC.

Niba ufite ibibazo bijyanye ninkingo iyo ari yo yose, vugana na muganga wawe wibanze cyangwa undi mutanga wizewe. Itsinda ry’amavuriro mu kigo cya Wright rirahari kugira ngo ritange inama zishingiye ku kuri hamwe n’ingamba zagaragaye zo guhangana na virusi z’ubuhumekero n’ibindi bibazo bigira ingaruka ku buzima n’ubuzima bwiza.

Wige byinshi kubutumwa bwa Wright Centre hamwe na serivisi zita kubuzima usura TheWrightCenter.org .