Funders to approach for The Wright Center Alliance

The Wright Center Alliance (alliance) was formed exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, particularly to act as the parent holding company of a graduate medical education safety-net consortium (gme-snc), a multi-entity comprehensive, fully integrated primary health services and physician and interprofessional health care workforce development ecosystem (enterprise) in which the wright center for graduate medical education (twcgme) is the foundational educational member. The alliance was also designed to potentially receive, maintain, and distribute funds and other assets and to administer and apply the income and principal thereof exclusively for, and otherwise support or benefit, the charitable, educational, and scientific activities of the enterprise, including twcgme and its tax-exempt affiliated entities. Without otherwise limiting the powers of the alliance, it may also exercise all rights and powers conferred by the laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon nonprofit corporations. When established, the alliance was intended to be operated, supervised, or controlled by twcgme within the meaning of section 509(a)(3) of the internal revenue code. As such, a majority of the alliance's board of directors is appointed or elected by twcgme's board of directors. Twcgme is a tax-exempt organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and a public charity described in section 509(a)(2) of the code. Twcgme's affiliated entities that comprise the enterprise are also entities described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. The mission of the wright center for graduate medical education (twcgme) is to improve the health and welfare of our communities through responsive, whole-person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. As the foundational educational member of its gme-snc, twcgme is an independent accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme)-accredited sponsoring institution of graduate medical education residency and fellowship programs that train primary care resident and specialty fellow physicians in a safety-net health services network of essential community providers. Twcgme's training programs operating during the reporting period include internal medicine, family medicine, and physical medicine & rehabilitation residencies; geriatrics, cardiovascular disease, and gastroenterology fellowships; and an internal medicine-geriatrics integrated residency and fellowship pathway, commonly known as the combined med-geri pathway. Twcgme's gme-snc strategically engages numerous partnering organizations in its governance and the training of its residents and fellows. These partners include twcgme's primary affiliated tax-exempt entity, the wright center medical group d/b/a the wright center for community health (twcch). Other key gme-snc stakeholders represented on twcgme's governance consist of four partnering national federally qualified health centers (fqhcs), numerous centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) gme-funded community-based hospital systems, our regional veterans affairs medical center, two cms gme-funded inpatient rehabilitation facilities (irfs), the northeast Pennsylvania area health education center (ahec), community resource agencies including the institute, and also patients of twcch and members of the communities served at large. As the anchoring foundational primary health services delivery member of the gme-snc enterprise, twcch shares twcgme's mission to improve the health and welfare of our communities through responsive, whole-person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. Twcch delivers comprehensive, whole-person primary health services in a patient-centered medical home (pcmh) care delivery framework for patients and families, regardless of ability to pay, insurance status, or zip code, while educating the current and future physician and interprofessional health care workforce. Twcch's comprehensive, fully integrated primary and preventive health services across the lifespan include medical, women's health, pediatrics, general dentistry, mental and behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment and recovery, care and case management, obesity medicine, infectious disease, ryan white hiv/aids services, as well as rheumatologic and geriatric care, and nutritional and lifestyle medicine. Enriched primary care services with specialty integration activities allow twcch to expand access for all patients and interprofessional learners to partnering specialty providers. Twcch is the sole corporate member of a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, patient engagement council, d/b/a the wright center for patient & community engagement (twcpce), whose work is intrinsically linked to twcch. The mission of twcpce is to empower and engage patients in promoting the health and welfare of our communities while advancing the outcomes and experience of health care and related services and workforce development. It aims to improve community health through education, advocacy, patient-centered services, and targeted initiatives that address patient and community resource needs that negatively impact health outcomes. Inspired by the empowering community and patient governance principles and focus of the u.s. Health resources and services administration's (hrsa) fqhc framework and its teaching health center graduate medical education (thcgme) program, our gme-snc enterprise embraces community health centers as integrated academic primary care workforce-development platforms. The demonstrated success of this model is a powerful solution to individual community health center workforce recruitment and retention challenges, and to america's primary care workforce shortage, mis-distribution, and related health, health care services, and health care career access needs and challenges. After it was conceived, the supporting parent strategic plan for the alliance evolved when twcch, which was previously intended to embrace the alliance as its sole corporate member, instead remained independent to seek a designation by hrsa as an fqhc look-alike - a designation twcch received effective june 1, 2019. In january 2020, twcch replaced the alliance as the sole corporate member of twcpce, reflecting twcch's alignment with the needs of patients, families, and the communities it serves, informing twcpce's strategic programming. However, the alliance, as twcgme's supporting parent organization, remains intact and may evolve its governance to align with its purpose to support other entities that may join the enterprise as tax-exempt affiliates of…