T9C45661
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program - Name of the Training Program: The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Psychiatry Residency Program. Discipline of the Residency Program: Psychiatry. Type of Application Expansion or New THCGME Applicant: Expansion. Eligible Entity Type: GME Consortium, The Wright Center for GME. Year Program First Began Training Residents: 2016. Organization Website Address: thewrightcenter.org.
Brief Overview of the Residency Program: The ACGME accredited sponsoring institution is The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (TWCGME), a 501c3 unowned graduate medical education safety-net consortium and HRSA's largest teaching health center program recipient for medical residency programs. TWCGME's psychiatry program was started in partnership with Geisinger Health System. The main primary care training location of TWCGME psychiatry residents is The Wright Center for Community Health (TWCCH), an FQHC-LAL in serving approximately 25,000 patients who are predominantly non-Hispanic white (79.26%) adults (69.50%) who are at or below 200% of federal poverty guideline (66.33%) and who are uninsured, on Medicaid, Medicare, or dually-eligible (59.07%). Only in its second year of being a look-alike, TWCCH earned 5 of 6 Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges. TWCGME trains psychiatry residents in best practices in recovery support services. Psychiatry residents also train with residents in internal medicine and family medicine in lifestyle medicine and community-oriented primary care to address, through quality improvement and preventive practices, the needs of a rural, aging population.
Total FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for all years of training: 34 (8-9-8-9) resident FTE. FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for AY 2022-2023: 6 (8-5-8-6.72).
Brief Overview of the Residency Program: The ACGME accredited sponsoring institution is The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (TWCGME), a 501c3 unowned graduate medical education safety-net consortium and HRSA's largest teaching health center program recipient for medical residency programs. TWCGME's psychiatry program was started in partnership with Geisinger Health System. The main primary care training location of TWCGME psychiatry residents is The Wright Center for Community Health (TWCCH), an FQHC-LAL in serving approximately 25,000 patients who are predominantly non-Hispanic white (79.26%) adults (69.50%) who are at or below 200% of federal poverty guideline (66.33%) and who are uninsured, on Medicaid, Medicare, or dually-eligible (59.07%). Only in its second year of being a look-alike, TWCCH earned 5 of 6 Community Health Center Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges. TWCGME trains psychiatry residents in best practices in recovery support services. Psychiatry residents also train with residents in internal medicine and family medicine in lifestyle medicine and community-oriented primary care to address, through quality improvement and preventive practices, the needs of a rural, aging population.
Total FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for all years of training: 34 (8-9-8-9) resident FTE. FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for AY 2022-2023: 6 (8-5-8-6.72).
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Scranton,
Pennsylvania
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
COVID-19 $960,000 (100%) percent of this Project Grant was funded by COVID-19 emergency acts including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 06/30/26 to 06/30/24 and the total obligations have increased 100% from $480,000 to $960,000.
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been shortened from 06/30/26 to 06/30/24 and the total obligations have increased 100% from $480,000 to $960,000.
The Wright Center For Graduate Medical Education was awarded
Project Grant T9C45661
worth $960,000
from the HRSA Office of Federal Assistance Management in July 2022 with work to be completed primarily in Scranton Pennsylvania United States.
The grant
has a duration of 2 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.530 Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program.
Status
(Complete)
Last Modified 6/20/25
Period of Performance
7/1/22
Start Date
6/30/24
End Date
Funding Split
$960.0K
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$960.0K
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to T9C45661
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
T9C45661
SAI Number
T9C45661-2116331426
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
75RJ00 HRSA Office of Federal Assistance Management
Funding Office
75RQ00 HRSA BUREAU OF HEALTH WORKFORCE
Awardee UEI
CAD8NSSSQ427
Awardee CAGE
4CZR9
Performance District
PA-08
Senators
Robert Casey
John Fetterman
John Fetterman
Budget Funding
| Federal Account | Budget Subfunction | Object Class | Total | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Health Care Access, Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services (075-0352) | Health care services | Grants, subsidies, and contributions (41.0) | $960,000 | 100% |
Modified: 6/20/25