Wright Center Medical Group

Mission

The mission of the wright center is to continuously improve education and patient care in a collaborative spirit to enhance outcomes, access and affordability.

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Clinical services: the wright center medical group (wcmg) provides clinical services including primary care, comprehensive hiv medical management services, primary and secondary prevention of hiv services, nutrition counseling, mental/behavioral health and dental services in a safety-net setting in three owned ambulatory care venues and in local affiliated hospitals. Wcmg physicians serve as faculty for the training of residents and fellows of the wright center for graduate medical education (wcgme), a non-profit community consortium affiliate of the organization focused on training primary care residents and cardiology fellows. Wcmg's practice locations serve as nondiscriminatory teaching venues for the residents, fellows and diverse inter-professional students in training. 340b drug pricing program: as a ryan white federal grantee and service provider and through the title x program, the organization participates in the u. S. Department of health and human services 340b drug pricing program. Under section 340b of the public health service act, this program has been established to limit the cost of covered outpatient medications for hiv patients. Revenues under this program are recognized based on discounted pricing for outpatient medication provided to hiv patients. These revenues are invested in mission based expansion and enhancement of safety net primary health & prevention services with particular focus on high risk and hiv infected patients. case management: the organization is a sub-grantee service provider through the united way of wyoming valley under a seven county hiv/aids case management program pursuant to the ryan white outpatient early intervention services program and the aids housing opportunity act relating to the federal housing opportunities for persons with aids (hopwa) program. The organization provides a multi-county (lackawanna, luzerne, pike, susquehanna, wayne, monroe and wyoming) program which includes medical case management patient services and hopwa support. These services are designed to prevent homelessness and help provide a continuum of housing services to meet the changing needs of hiv infected individuals and their families. The organization's services include hiv counseling, testing, and referral; medical evaluation and nondiscriminatory primary clinical care; other primary health services (oral health, adherence counseling, outpatient mental health, substance abuse treatment and nutritional services); and referral to other health services. effective april 1, 2015, wcmg became the direct grantee and recipient of federal funding for hiv prevention and control through a ryan white part c grant. This grant award was transferred from the wright center for graduate medical education, a formally affiliated non-profit corporation, to wcmg which provides the actual clinical services to hiv patients. Primary care expansion - allone foundation awarded a three-year grant in 2016 to specifically develop and launch a patient engagement initiative. With a focus on women and children, the project is intended to increase patient engagement and empower patients to be active participants in their health care. Funds are used to streamline patient response and improve efficacy of care management, fully integrate behavioral health into primary care, and increase social supports that remove barriers to care. Dental - in 2016, the harry and jeanette weinberg foundation and the moses taylor foundation infused resources into the wright center for primary care's oral health clinic, housed within the mid valley practice. The project was complete in late october. The new space accomodates four spacious exam rooms and on-site x-ray capabilities. The expanded dental care team is now able to provide additional services including extractions and emergency services. Of all patients seen at the oral clinic, 85% are on medical assistance. Coe - in 2016, the wright center was named an opioid use disorder center fo

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