The Wright Center Alliance

“Organization exempt purpose: the primary purpose of the wright center alliance (alliance) is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the wright center for graduate medical education (twcgme) by providing the support and benefit, financial or otherwise, through whatever means are determined by the alliance, including support and benefit of one or more affiliates of twcgme, which affiliates are entities described in section 501(c)(3) of the code. The mission of twcgme is to improve the health and welfare of the communities we serve through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. Twcgme is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and anchor member of a graduate medical education safety-net consortium (gme-snc) as the independent acgme-accredited sponsoring institution of medical residency programs in internal medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, geriatrics, cardiovascular disease and gastroenterology. In order to ensure that twcgme continuously evolved its sponsoring institutional curriculum to be community-needs responsive, the alliance incorporated and became the sole member of patient engagement council dba the wright center for patient and community engagement (twcpce), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to empower patients to make meaningful contributions to the delivery, enhancement and transformation of health care services and inter-professional workforce development and to improve the health of the community through education, advocacy, patient-centered services and efforts directed toward the social and economic determinants of health. Twcgme and twcpce are also affiliated with the wright center medical group, d/b/a the wright center for community health (twcch), a federally qualified health center look-alike nondiscriminatory provider of primary health services across the lifespan that operates eight primary care practices across a five-county service area regardless of ability to pay. Collectively, those practices serve more than 26,000 patients. In action, twcpce serves a dual purpose, striving to empower patients to act as catalysts for the improvement of the health care delivery and medical education systems, and simultaneously working to improve the health of the community through education and patient-centered services. Twcpce especially supports patients of twcch, their families and members of the larger community who are confronted by the negative social and economic determinants of health (sedh) such as food insecurity, poverty, lack of transportation and housing insecurity, to name a few. 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 apply for designation by the u.s. Health resources and services administration (hrsa) as a federally qualified health center look-alike. Subsequently, in january 2020, twcch replaced the alliance as the sole member of twcpce because of twcch's proximity to the needs of patients, families and the communities it serves, informing twcpce's strategic programming. However, the alliance, as twcgme's supporting parent organization, has been left intact to potentially evolve its governance consistent with its purpose to support other affiliates that may join the system as an affiliate of twcgme.”

“Program service accomplishments: the wright center alliance was designed to support the activities of twcgme by providing governance support, engagement and oversight, activity coordination and, potentially, administrative support and assistance in order to ensure maximum operational efficiencies and mission achievement among the alliance system entities. In light of the changes described above, the alliance, as twcgme's supporting parent organization, has been left intact to potentially evolve its governance consistent with its purpose to support other affiliates that may join the system as an affiliate of twcgme.”