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, non-discriminatory, fully integrated primary health services and physician and interprofessional healthcare workforce development ecosystem (Enterprise) in which 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, inclusive of 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 non-profit 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 members of the Alliance's Board of Directors are appointed or elected by the members of 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 and 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, Psychiatry, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation residencies and Geriatrics, Cardiovascular Disease, and Gastroenterology fellowships. 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 FQHCs, numerous Centers for Medicare and 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 for Public Policy and Economic Development, 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 and competent workforce that is privileged to serve. TWCCH delivers comprehensive, non-discriminatory, whole-person primary health services in a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) care delivery framework for patients and families, regardless of ability to pay, ins”

“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 of the Enterprise. In light of the changes described above, the Alliance, as TWCGME's supporting parent organization, remains intact to potentially evolve its governance consistent with its purpose to support other tax-exempt entities that may join the system as an affiliate of TWCGME.”