Mu rwego rwo kwizihiza umunsi mpuzamahanga w’ubuzima bwo mu kanwa no gukwirakwiza serivisi zerekeye amenyo, ikigo cya Wright Centre cy’ubuvuzi rusange bw’abaturage kizatanga imifuka y’ibikoresho byo kuvura amenyo ku wa gatatu, 20 Werurwe.

Abarwayi n'abana bakuze bafite gahunda yo kwa muganga mu kigo cyitwa Wright Centre for Health Health Scranton, Mid Valley, na Wilkes-Barre bazahabwa imifuka ya goodie ibitseho koza amenyo, umuti w’amenyo, indabyo, namakuru ajyanye n’isuku y amenyo. Amavuriro uko ari atatu atanga serivisi zitandukanye z amenyo kubantu bakuru nabana.

Kim McGoff, umuyobozi wa Wright Center ushinzwe ibikorwa by'amenyo

Umuyobozi w'ikigo gishinzwe ubuvuzi bw'amenyo Kim McGoff yagize ati: "Kuba wasuye umuganga ntibisobanura ko usura buri gihe umuganga w'amenyo". Ati: “Turashaka kumenyesha abantu bose ibijyanye na serivisi z'amenyo dutanga n'uburyo ubuzima bwo mu kanwa bushobora kugira ingaruka ku buzima bw'umubiri.”

Kwakira ubuvuzi busanzwe bwo mu kanwa ntibigabanya gusa amahirwe yo kwandura imyenge, kubabara amenyo, kwandura amenyo, nibindi bibazo byo mu kanwa, ariko kandi biteza imbere ubuzima bwiza muri rusange. Nk’uko ivuriro rya Mayo ribivuga, bagiteri zo mu kanwa hamwe n’umuriro bifitanye isano n'indwara y'amenyo bishobora kugira uruhare mu bihe byinshi bikomeye birimo indwara z'umutima n'imitsi, umusonga, ndetse no gutwita no kuvuka.

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

Babiri mu kigo cyita ku buzima bw’ibanze cy’ubuzima bw’ibanze mu gukumira no gukumira indwara mu Ntara ya Lackawanna baherutse kwakira ishimwe na komite y’igihugu ishinzwe ubuziranenge (NCQA) kubera ubuvuzi bwiza, bushingiye ku barwayi.

Ikigo cya Wright Centre for Health Health Clarks Pratique, 1145 Amajyaruguru ya Blvd., Umujyi wa S. Abington, hamwe na Wright Centre for Health Health Mid Valley Practice, 5 S. Washington Ave., Jermyn, buri wese yongeye kugumana icyemezo cy’abarwayi ba NCQA. Kumenyekanisha Urugo rwubuvuzi, ukemera ko bafite ibikoresho, sisitemu, nibikoresho byo guha abarwayi ubuvuzi bukwiye mugihe gikwiye.

Imyitozo ine ya Wright Centre yagumanye icyemezo cya NCQA kubushake mumezi ashize. Mu mpera z'umwaka ushize, imyitozo ya Scranton na Wilkes-Barre yamenyeshejwe ko bagumanye neza kashe yo kumenyekana.

Buri mwaka, ahakorerwa imyitozo hakorerwa isuzuma ryemewe kugirango barebe ko bakomeza kubahiriza amahame yo hejuru y’umuryango wa Washington, DC.

NCQA is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Its Patient-Centered Medical Home program reflects the input of the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, and others. It was developed to assess whether clinician practices are functioning as medical homes and recognize them for these efforts.

Dr. Jignesh Sheth, umuyobozi mukuru w’ubuvuzi n’amakuru y’ikigo cya Wright gishinzwe ubuzima

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.

Dr. William Dempsey

Umuyobozi wungirije ushinzwe ubuvuzi wa Dr. Ikigo cya Wright gishinzwe ubuzima bwabaturage.

Kugira ngo utegure gusura ibiro birimo urukingo, hamagara 570.230.0019 cyangwa ujye kumurongo kugirango ukoreshe sisitemu yo guteganya byihuse kuri TheWrightCenter.org . Nyamuneka, menya ko kohereza urukingo rwa COVID-19 ruherutse kwemezwa ko bitageze ku kigo cy’ibanze cya Wright Centre n’ubuvuzi bwo gukumira mu majyaruguru y’iburasirazuba bwa Pennsylvania kugeza ku cyumweru cyo ku ya 18 Nzeri.

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 . 

Innovative keynote speaker, classical violinist, and composer Kai Kight will deliver the inspiring commencement address, “Compose Your World,” during The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education’s 44th annual commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 24 at the Masonic Temple, 420 N. Washington Ave., Scranton, beginning at 4 p.m. 

Nkumucuranga wumucuranzi wumucuranzi wahinduye udushya, Kight akoresha umuziki nkikigereranyo kugirango ashishikarize abantu nimiryango kwisi guhimba inzira yibitekerezo no gusohoza. Ari mubutumwa bwo gukurura imitekerereze yisi yose aho ubuhanga ari ihame ntabwo aribyo. 

“Whether in education, business, health care, or government, the systems and routines we depended on for so long have disappeared,” said Kight. “While this void has been devastating, it also leaves us with an incredible opportunity – a blank page on which we can compose our future. We will look back at this time as the moment we made leaps forward by creating more innovative technologies, more human-centric businesses and workplaces.”

Amateka ye yihariye ni uruvange rwubuhanzi na siyanse. Nkumucuranzi, Kight yakoreye umuziki we wumwimerere kubantu ibihumbi nibihumbi ku bibuga ku isi, kuva muri White House kugeza ku rukuta runini rw'Ubushinwa. Kight warangije muri kaminuza ya Stanford igishushanyo mbonera n’ubuhanga, Stanford d.school, hamwe na Laboratwari yimyitwarire, Kight yize uburyo bwo gufasha abantu kurema ingeso nziza kandi zihindura mubuzima.  

“A musical masterpiece is a unique, alive, just right, timeless blessing that captures and connects the fundamental and essential stories of the musical composer, the music, and the audience,” said Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, FACP, FAAP, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education. “It remains relevant across time, contemporary circumstances and generations. It speaks to humanity about our interdependence and our connectedness to each other and the universe.

Ikigo cya Wright Centre for Graduate Medical Education's Class of 2023 gifite 80 barangije amasomo arindwi: Ubuvuzi bwimbere (35); Ubuvuzi bwo mu karere (11); Ubuvuzi bw'imiryango y'igihugu (17); Indwara zo mu mutwe (10); Indwara z'umutima n'imitsi (4); Ibihe (2) na Gastroenterology (1). 

Kimwe na Kight, Ikigo cya Wright gitera udushya mugutanga ubuvuzi bwibanze no gukumira hamwe nuburezi buhendutse hamwe namahugurwa yabakozi bahumekewe, babishoboye. Ikigo cya Wright Centre for Graduate Medical Education gifitanye isano n’ikigo cyitwa Wright Centre for Health Community, kikaba ari serivisi ishinzwe gutanga serivisi zita ku barwayi ba ambulatori y’ikigo cy’ubuvuzi cya Wright Centre's Teaching Health Centre Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium, kinini mu gihugu cyatewe inkunga na Ubuyobozi bwa Amerika bushinzwe umutungo na serivisi.