地区住院医师培训项目迎来 51 名医生

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.

莱特中心于 2013 年开始在杰明市华盛顿大道 5 号的中谷诊所提供牙科服务，随后扩展到华盛顿大道 501 号的斯克兰顿诊所。今年早些时候，位于宾夕法尼亚大道北 169 号的威尔克斯-巴里诊所开始在每周一和周二为儿童和成人提供常规牙科服务，包括检查、X 光和清洁。欲了解更多信息或预约，请访问TheWrightCenter.org/services/dental或致电 570-230-0019。

赖特中心接受大多数牙科保险，包括 Delta Dental、Guardian、United Concordia 和医疗补助（Medicaid）。为了确保每个人都能获得高质量的口腔护理，赖特中心根据联邦贫困线（考虑家庭人口和收入）为符合条件的个人提供按比例收费的折扣计划。

世界口腔健康日是由代表全球 100 多万牙医的 FDI 世界牙科联盟发起的一项活动。

在华盛顿特区举行的全国社区卫生中心协会政策与问题论坛的临床实践委员会会议上，莱特社区卫生和医学研究生教育中心总裁兼首席执行官琳达-托马斯-赫马克（Linda Thomas-Hemak）博士（中）荣获年度家乡学者倡导者奖、左为莱特医学研究生教育中心（The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education）董事会成员，右为亚利桑那州斯蒂尔大学骨科医学院（A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine）大学合作副总裁加里-克劳德（Gary L. Cloud）博士、工商管理硕士。该奖项旨在表彰托马斯-赫马克博士为发掘和指导宾夕法尼亚州东北部未来的内科医生、牙医、医生助理和其他医疗保健专业人士所做的充满激情和使命感的努力。

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.

中谷（Mid Valley）在行为健康整合方面保持领先地位

以病人为中心的医疗之家模式旨在让病人和他们的护理团队建立更好的关系，帮助病人更有效地控制慢性病，并改善病人的整体体验。

此外，该模式还能提高员工满意度，降低医疗成本。

对公众而言，NCQA 认证是一个信号，表明莱特社区卫生中心始终关注质量改进，并制定了关键流程，使其诊所能够优先满足患者的需求。

"Wright Center for Community Health 首席医疗与信息官 Jignesh Sheth 博士说："我们很荣幸能在四家规模较大的诊所保留这一认可印章。"NCQA 印章让公众知道，我们正竭尽全力将患者放在医疗服务的最前沿，包括在传统营业时间外开放这些诊所，以满足人们的初级保健需求。

Sheth 博士特别赞扬了赖特中心的员工们所做的工作，他们利用以团队为基础的服务系统和信息技术来协调医疗服务，为患者争取最佳治疗效果。

Mid Valley Practice 的认证还获得了 NCQA 在行为健康整合方面的殊荣。该认证针对的是那些已经证明自己拥有合适的医疗团队，能够满足与行为健康相关的患者的广泛需求的医疗机构。

"NCQA 总裁 Margaret E. O'Kane 说："很多时候，行为健康状况首先是由初级保健提供者发现的。"因此，在初级保健中增加行为保健服务对患者来说是一个真正的机会。它消除了行为保健的障碍，改善了整体健康状况"。

赖特中心在宾夕法尼亚州东北部经营着 10 家初级和预防保健诊所，其中包括一辆名为 "健康驾驶"（Driving Better Health）的流动医疗和牙科车。该中心的医疗机构提供综合的全人医疗服务，患者通常可以在一个地点方便地获得医疗、牙科和行为健康护理，以及社区戒毒治疗和康复服务。

赖特中心接受大多数主要的医疗保险计划，包括医疗补助（Medicaid）、医疗保险（Medicare）和 CHIP。没有病人会因为无力支付而被拒之门外。

为了帮助人们防范今年秋冬季可能出现的三重呼吸道感染威胁，赖特社区卫生中心正在提供最新的流感、RSV 和最新 COVID-19 株疫苗。

以下是赖特中心提供的每种疫苗产品的相关信息。

• 流感疫苗.健康中心在拉克瓦纳县、卢泽恩县和韦恩县的所有初级保健诊所都备有 2023-24 年冬季的最新流感疫苗。卫生官员建议所有 6 个月及以上的人每年接种流感疫苗，只有少数人例外。
  • 专家建议美国人从现在到万圣节期间接种疫苗，以便在流感病例容易激增的寒假期间获得最大的保护。据美国疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）称，本季度在美国上市的所有流感疫苗都是四价疫苗，这意味着它们可以预防四种不同的流感病毒。

• RSV 疫苗.今年早些时候，联邦卫生官员批准了两种用于 60 岁及以上人群的疫苗，以预防呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）。目前，赖特中心的所有诊所都备有辉瑞公司生产的 Abrysvo 疫苗，供老年人在咨询医疗服务提供者后决定是否适合接种。最有可能从疫苗中获益的成年人包括那些居住在长期护理设施中的人，以及那些有潜在健康问题的人，如心脏病、肺病或免疫系统较弱的人。
  • 据公开报道，老年人接种新的 RSV 疫苗可能需要医生处方，其费用可能因患者的医疗保险计划而异。有些计划可能不支付疫苗费用。任何担心承保范围的人都应向其保险公司寻求指导。

• COVID-19 疫苗.最新批准的 COVID-19 疫苗可有效预防目前占主导地位的 EG.5 株，随着该疫苗的运抵，赖特中心将发布更多公告。请关注健康中心网站和社交媒体渠道即将发布的详细信息。
  • 有关 COVID-19 疫苗的最新信息和正确剂量，请访问疾病预防控制中心网站。

如果您对任何疫苗有疑问，请咨询您的主治医生或其他值得信赖的医疗保健提供者。赖特中心的临床团队可提供基于事实的建议和行之有效的策略，以应对呼吸道病毒和其他影响健康和保健的问题。

请访问TheWrightCenter.org，了解有关莱特中心的使命和综合医疗保健服务的更多信息。 

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. 

作为一名从古典小提琴家转行而来的创新作曲家，凯特以音乐为喻，激励世界各地的个人和组织开创想象力和成就感之路。他的使命是引发全球思维方式的转变，让独创性成为常态，而不是例外。 

“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.

赖特医学研究生教育中心的 2023 届毕业生共有 80 人，分别来自 7 个学科：内科（35 人）；地区家庭医学（11 人）；全国家庭医学（17 人）；精神病学（10 人）；心血管疾病（4 人）；老年医学（2 人）和肠胃病学（1 人）。 

与 Kight 类似，赖特中心也在提供初级和预防性医疗服务以及以具有成本效益的方式教育和培训有灵感、有能力的医生队伍方面进行创新。赖特医学研究生教育中心隶属于赖特社区健康中心，后者是赖特中心教学健康中心医学研究生教育安全网联盟的基础非住院医疗服务机构，该联盟是由美国卫生资源与服务管理局资助的全美最大的非住院医疗服务机构。