Kabla ya The Wright Center, Gill alikuwa daktari anayehudhuria katika Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center na profesa msaidizi katika Penn State College of Medicine katika Idara ya Family and Community Medicine. Pia aliona wagonjwa katika Penn State Medical Group Camp Hill.

Mhitimu wa Chuo Kikuu cha Penn State, Gill alipokea Daktari wake wa Tiba kutoka Chuo cha Matibabu cha Jefferson cha Chuo Kikuu cha Thomas Jefferson huko Philadelphia. Alimaliza ukaaji wake katika matibabu ya familia katika Hospitali ya St. Margaret ya Chuo Kikuu cha Pittsburgh Medical Center. Katika Chuo Kikuu cha Pittsburgh Shule ya Tiba, Gill alikamilisha ushirika katika ukuzaji wa kitivo, ambapo pia alipata digrii ya uzamili ya taaluma nyingi katika afya ya umma.

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.

Kituo cha Wright ni mojawapo ya miungano mikubwa ya Utawala wa Rasilimali na Huduma za Afya ya Marekani inayofadhiliwa na Utawala wa Walimu wa Elimu ya Tiba katika taifa. Inatoa ukaaji katika taaluma nne - dawa za familia, matibabu ya ndani, matibabu ya mwili na urekebishaji, na magonjwa ya akili - pamoja na ushirika katika magonjwa ya moyo na mishipa, gastroenterology, na geriatrics. Programu zake zote zimeidhinishwa na Baraza la Uidhinishaji kwa Elimu ya Uzamili ya Matibabu.

Tembelea TheWrightCenter.org ili upate maelezo zaidi kuhusu jinsi Kituo cha Wright kwa ajili ya wafanyakazi wa taaluma ya udaktari waliohitimu Elimu ya Tiba kinavyoelimisha na kutoa mafunzo kwa kizazi kijacho cha madaktari na watoa huduma mbalimbali.

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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.

Kituo cha Wright kilianza kutoa huduma za meno katika Mid Valley Practice, 5 S. Washington Ave., Jermyn, mwaka wa 2013 na kisha kupanuliwa hadi Scranton Practice, 501 S. Washington Ave. Mapema mwaka huu, Wilkes-Barre Practice, 169 N. . Pennsylvania Ave., ilianza kutoa huduma za kawaida za meno - ikiwa ni pamoja na mitihani, X-rays, na usafishaji - kwa watoto na watu wazima siku za Jumatatu na Jumanne. Ili kupata maelezo zaidi au kufanya miadi, tembelea TheWrightCenter.org/services/dental au piga simu kwa 570-230-0019.

Kituo cha Wright kinakubali bima nyingi za meno, ikiwa ni pamoja na Delta Dental, Guardian, United Concordia, na Usaidizi wa Matibabu (Medicaid). Ili kuhakikisha utunzaji wa mdomo wa hali ya juu unapatikana kwa kila mtu, Kituo cha Wright hutoa mpango wa punguzo la ada ya kuteleza kwa watu ambao wamehitimu kulingana na Miongozo ya Shirikisho ya Umaskini ambayo inazingatia ukubwa wa familia na mapato. Hakuna mgonjwa anayekataliwa kwa sababu ya kutoweza kulipa.

Siku ya Afya ya Kinywa Duniani ni mpango wa Shirikisho la Meno Ulimwenguni la FDI, ambalo linawakilisha zaidi ya madaktari wa meno milioni 1 kote ulimwenguni.

Dk. Linda Thomas-Hemak, rais na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Kituo cha The Wright for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, katikati, alipokea tuzo ya Wakili Bora wa Mwaka wa Msomi wa Nyumbani wakati wa mkutano wa kamati ya mazoezi ya kliniki katika Sera na Masuala ya Chama cha Kitaifa cha Vituo vya Afya ya Jamii. Jukwaa huko Washington, DC Wanaoshiriki katika mpango huo ni Douglas Spegman, MD, kushoto, mjumbe wa bodi, Kituo cha Wright cha Elimu ya Uzamili ya Matibabu; na Gary L. Cloud, Ph.D., MBA, kulia, makamu wa rais wa ushirikiano wa chuo kikuu katika Chuo Kikuu cha AT Still School of Osteopathic Medicine huko Arizona. Tuzo hii inamtambua Dk. Thomas-Hemak kwa juhudi zake za dhati, zinazoendeshwa na misheni kutambua na kuwashauri madaktari wa siku zijazo, madaktari wa meno, wasaidizi wa madaktari, na wataalamu wengine wa afya kutoka Kaskazini-mashariki mwa 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 hudumisha tofauti kwa Ujumuishaji wa Afya ya Tabia

Muundo wa Nyumba ya Matibabu Inayozingatia Mgonjwa umeundwa ili kuruhusu wagonjwa na timu zao za utunzaji kujenga uhusiano bora, kusaidia wagonjwa kudhibiti kwa ufanisi zaidi hali sugu na kuboresha hali ya jumla ya mgonjwa.

Aidha, mtindo huo umeonyeshwa kuongeza kuridhika kwa wafanyakazi na kupunguza gharama za huduma za afya.

Kwa umma, uidhinishaji wa NCQA ni ishara kwamba Kituo cha Wright cha Afya ya Jamii kinazingatia uboreshaji wa ubora na kina michakato muhimu kwa hivyo kliniki zake zinatanguliza mahitaji ya wagonjwa.

"Tunajivunia kuhifadhi muhuri huu wa utambuzi katika mazoea yetu makubwa manne," alisema Dk. Jignesh Sheth, afisa mkuu wa matibabu na habari wa Kituo cha Wright cha Afya ya Jamii. "Muhuri wa NCQA unafahamisha umma kuwa tunafanya kila tuwezalo kuwaweka wagonjwa mbele ya huduma, ikiwa ni pamoja na kufungua kliniki hizi nje ya saa za kawaida za kazi ili kukidhi mahitaji ya msingi ya watu.

Hasa, Dk. Sheth alisifu kazi inayofanywa na wafanyakazi wa The Wright Center kutumia mfumo wa utoaji wa timu na teknolojia ya habari ili kuratibu huduma na kupata matokeo bora zaidi kwa wagonjwa.

Uthibitishaji wa Mid Valley Practice hubeba tofauti ya ziada ya NCQA katika ushirikiano wa afya ya kitabia. Utambuzi huu ni wa mazoea ambayo yamethibitisha kuwa wana timu inayofaa ya utunzaji ili kudhibiti mahitaji mapana ya wagonjwa walio na hali zinazohusiana na afya ya kitabia.

"Mara nyingi, hali ya afya ya kitabia hutambuliwa kwanza na mtoa huduma ya msingi," alisema Margaret E. O'Kane, rais wa NCQA. "Kwa hivyo, kuongeza huduma za afya ya kitabia katika mpangilio wa huduma ya msingi ni fursa ya kweli kwa wagonjwa. Inapunguza vikwazo vya utunzaji wa tabia na kuboresha afya kwa ujumla.

Kituo cha Wright kinaendesha mazoea 10 ya utunzaji wa msingi na kinga huko Kaskazini-mashariki mwa Pennsylvania, ikijumuisha gari la rununu la matibabu na meno liitwalo Driving Better Health. Mazoea yake hutoa huduma jumuishi ya mtu mzima, kwa kawaida huwapa wagonjwa urahisi wa kwenda eneo moja ili kupata huduma za afya za kimatibabu, meno na kitabia, pamoja na matibabu ya uraibu wa jamii na huduma za kupona.

Kituo cha Wright kinakubali mipango mikuu ya bima ya afya, ikijumuisha Usaidizi wa Matibabu (Medicaid), Medicare, na CHIP. Hakuna mgonjwa anayekataliwa kwa sababu ya kutoweza kulipa.

Ili kuwasaidia watu kujikinga na tishio linaloweza kutokea mara tatu la maambukizo ya upumuaji msimu huu wa vuli na baridi, Kituo cha Wright cha Afya ya Jamii kinatoa ufikiaji wa chanjo zilizosasishwa za mafua, RSV na aina ya hivi punde ya COVID-19.

Hivi ndivyo unavyopaswa kujua kuhusu upatikanaji katika Kituo cha The Wright cha kila bidhaa ya chanjo.

• Chanjo za mafua. Chanjo zilizosasishwa za homa ya msimu wa baridi wa 2023-24 zinapatikana katika mazoea yote ya huduma ya msingi ya kituo cha afya katika kaunti za Lackawanna, Luzerne na Wayne. Maafisa wa afya wanapendekeza kupiga homa kila mwaka kwa kila mtu aliye na umri wa miezi 6 na zaidi, isipokuwa chache.
  • Wataalamu wanashauri kwamba watu nchini Marekani wapate chanjo kati ya sasa na Halloween kwa ajili ya ulinzi wa hali ya juu wakati wa likizo za majira ya baridi wakati visa vya mafua vinapoongezeka. Chanjo zote za homa zinazopatikana Marekani kwa msimu huu ni za aina nne, kumaanisha kwamba zimeundwa kulinda dhidi ya virusi vinne tofauti vya homa, kulingana na Vituo vya Marekani vya Kudhibiti na Kuzuia Magonjwa (CDC).

• chanjo za RSV. Mapema mwaka huu, maafisa wa afya wa shirikisho waliidhinisha chanjo mbili kwa ajili ya matumizi ya watu wenye umri wa miaka 60 na zaidi ili kuzuia virusi vya kupumua vya syncytial, vinavyojulikana kama RSV. Kituo cha Wright kwa sasa kina chanjo iliyotengenezwa na Pfizer, Abrysvo, katika hisa katika mazoea yake yote ya kutoa kwa wazee ambao wanaamua, kwa kushauriana na mtoa huduma wa afya, ikiwa risasi inawafaa. Watu wazima ambao wana uwezekano mkubwa wa kufaidika na chanjo hiyo ni pamoja na wale wanaoishi katika vituo vya utunzaji wa muda mrefu na wale ambao wana hali za kiafya, kama vile ugonjwa wa moyo au mapafu au mfumo dhaifu wa kinga.
  • Chanjo mpya za RSV kwa wazee zinaweza kuhitaji agizo kutoka kwa daktari, kulingana na ripoti zilizochapishwa, na gharama yake inaweza kutofautiana kulingana na mpango wa bima ya afya ya mgonjwa. Baadhi ya mipango inaweza kulipa kwa risasi. Yeyote anayehusika na bima anapaswa kufikia kampuni yake ya bima kwa mwongozo.

• Chanjo za covid-19. Usafirishaji unapowasili wa chanjo ya COVID-19 iliyoidhinishwa hivi majuzi, ambayo inatumika dhidi ya aina kuu ya sasa ya EG.5, Kituo cha Wright kitatoa matangazo ya ziada ya umma. Tazama kwa maelezo ya kushirikiwa hivi karibuni kupitia tovuti ya kituo cha afya na chaneli za mitandao ya kijamii.
  • Mwongozo kuhusu kusasisha chanjo za COVID-19 na dozi ifaayo unapatikana kwenye tovuti ya CDC.

Ikiwa una maswali kuhusu chanjo yoyote, zungumza na daktari wako wa huduma ya msingi au mtoa huduma mwingine wa afya anayeaminika. Timu ya kliniki katika Kituo cha The Wright inapatikana ili kutoa ushauri kulingana na ukweli na mikakati iliyothibitishwa ya kukabiliana na virusi vya kupumua na masuala mengine yanayoathiri afya na siha.

Pata maelezo zaidi kuhusu dhamira ya Kituo cha Wright na huduma jumuishi za afya kwa kutembelea TheWrightCenter.org .