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赖特中心扩展了在卢泽恩县的使命，增加了获得初级保健服务和医疗保健职业发展的机会
赖特中心的员工在参加向威尔克斯-巴里市介绍新的初级和预防保健诊所的新闻发布会后合影留念。Wright Center for Community Health 威尔克斯-巴拉诊所于 1 月 9 日开业。
赖特社区卫生和研究生医学教育中心将通过将其金斯顿初级保健和劳动力发展中心搬迁到威尔克斯-巴里市中心并进行扩建，增加人们获得优质、全面、负担得起的初级保健服务和保健职业发展机会的机会。
莱特社区健康中心（Wright Center for Community Health）最近完成了对位于宾夕法尼亚大道（Pennsylvania Ave.这块占地超过 3 英亩的土地使这家非营利性社区健康中心能够为该地区的居民提供更多机会，让他们在一个方便的地点接受综合的、全人的初级保健服务。新的初级保健诊所将为初级保健医生、医科学生以及来自地区和国家附属学术机构的跨专业保健学生提供教育。该中心将于 1 月 9 日星期一上午 8 点开放。
“We are honored to have this opportunity in Luzerne County to expand the delivery of our mission to improve the health and welfare of the communities we serve through responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired and competent workforce that is privileged to serve,” said Linda Thomas-Hemak, M.D., FACP, FAAP, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education. “We are grateful for and inspired by Gov. Tom Wolf’s validating, generous Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program award.
莱特中心总裁兼首席执行官琳达-托马斯-赫马克博士（Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak）在威尔克斯-巴里新诊所的新闻发布会上发表讲话。
“We are also grateful to and inspired by our supportive governmental and legislative leaders, Sordoni Construction, and all of our partners who made this development project in Wilkes-Barre possible. We look forward to giving back through the regional and local community benefit impact we deliver,” Dr. Thomas-Hemak added. “Together, we are building a preferred future in which everyone will benefit from a health system that prioritizes quality and affordability of comprehensive primary health care services and career opportunities.
“Our deep investment into Wilkes-Barre will enable The Wright Center to grow our operations and our collaborative, interprofessional relationships to ensure everyone in the service area has access to whole-person primary health services, regardless of their ZIP code, insurance status, or ability to pay. We are equally committed to pipeline, community-driven partnerships to open up dream mapping about health care career opportunities, so the demographics of our future health care workforce can better reflect the demographics of our regional community,” she added.
州众议员埃迪-戴-帕辛斯基（Eddie Day Pashinski）在向卢泽恩县介绍新的莱特社区卫生中心威尔克斯-巴里诊所的新闻发布会上致辞。
2019 年，美国卫生资源与服务管理局（HRSA）将莱特社区卫生中心指定为联邦合格医疗中心（Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike），为该非营利组织提供资源，使其能够进一步帮助医疗服务不足的农村和城市社区以及弱势群体，包括保险不足和无保险的人群。赖特中心提供滑动收费折扣计划，确保每个有需要的人，无论其支付能力如何，都能获得负担得起的医疗服务，从而减少了获得医疗服务的障碍。莱特中心在宾夕法尼亚州东北部的诊所网络主要为来自拉克瓦纳、卢泽恩、苏斯克汉纳、韦恩和怀俄明等县的患者提供服务。
The Wright Center is no stranger to Luzerne County. The enterprise has operated teaching health centers in Wilkes-Barre and Kingston for many years and partnered on several public health initiatives with community resource agencies. The Wright Center for Community Health has utilized its 34-foot mobile medical and dental unit, better known as Driving Better Health, to further address barriers to quality care in several underserved communities, partnering with social service organizations and school districts in lower Luzerne County to deliver routine vaccinations, COVID-19 vaccinations, boosters, and testing to where people live, work, and study.
位于威尔克斯巴里的新临床、教育和行政中心第一阶段的开放时间为周一至周六上午 8 点至下午 6 点，周一至周六的节假日为上午 8 点至下午 4 点。
首席医疗官 Jignesh Sheth 博士（左）与市长乔治-布朗（George Brown）和州众议员埃迪-戴-帕辛斯基（Eddie Day Pashinski）讨论威尔克斯-巴里实践项目。
该中心有充足的路边停车位，步行即可到达威尔克斯-巴里市中心、詹姆斯-科纳汉（James F. Conahan）多式联运中心和公共交通巴士站。该中心将提供适合家庭使用的初级医疗、行为、戒毒和康复服务，涵盖从儿科到老年医学的整个生命周期。最终，该中心的综合服务将为患者提供方便，只需前往一个地点，就能获得全面的初级医疗、牙科、行为健康、戒毒和康复服务以及其他支持性项目。
Over the next several months, The Wright Center will be adding more than 25 medical examination rooms, 30 behavioral health rooms, and 10 dental operatories. The new facility will also include state-of-the-art conference and learning rooms, complete with audio-visual technology, computers, and more for provider care teams and learners, as well as dedicated space for partnering community resource agencies. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.
