Teaching health center (THC) graduate medical education (GME) payment program - name of the graduate medical training program: twcgme-healthsource of ohio family medicine program; discipline of the…

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals awarded The Wright Center For Graduate Medical Education $428,464 on March 1, 2026, under the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (CFDA 93.530) to support graduate medical education in family medicine residency training.

The award funds the TWCGME-HealthSource of Ohio Family Medicine Program, a new consortium-based residency sponsored by the Wright Center for GME with primary care training delivered at HealthSource Hillsboro in Highland County, Ohio, a rural FQHC and H80 grantee site. The program began training residents in July 2025 and requested 12 resident FTE positions across post-graduate years. The training location serves a medically underserved rural county of 553 square miles with a population density of 78.8 people per square mile, where the primary care physician ratio is one per 3,610 people compared to the state and national average of one per 1,330. The county population is 96.4 percent white, with a median household income of $39,641; 17.6 percent live below the poverty line, and 10 percent are uninsured.

The period of performance runs through June 30, 2029, with place of performance listed as Scranton, Pennsylvania (the Wright Center's administrative location). The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program expands primary care medical and dental residency training in community-based ambulatory care settings; funding is based on annual assessment of residency FTE slots and subject to reconciliation at the end of each budget period.

Teaching health center (THC) graduate medical education (GME) payment program - name of the graduate medical training program: twcgme-healthsource of ohio family medicine program; discipline of the residency program: family medicine type of application: new eligible entity type: consortium year program first began training residents: july 2025 organization website address: WWW.healthsourceofohio.ORG and thewrightcenter.ORG a brief overview of the residency program that includes the name of the accredited sponsoring institution (as designated by acgme or coda) and description of the main primary care training location including populations served; the applicant program is sponsored by the wright center for GME. The main primary care training location is within the fqhc and H80 grantee healthsource of ohio. Healthsource hillsboro, OH will be the family medicine practice, or FMP, which is the primary care training location for family medicine programs. This rural county covers 553 square miles, of which only about six percent is used for residential, commercial, or industrial purposes, according to the ohio development services agency. Over 32% of the land is forested, and another 60% is farmland or pasture. The population density is 78.8 people per square mile. The county is predominately white (96.4%). According to the US census, 81.5% of people over the age of 25 are at least a high school graduate, and 11.1% of people over the age of 25 have earned at least a bachelor's degree. The median household income is $39,641; 17.6% of the people live below the poverty line, and more than 30% of children live below the poverty line, and 10% are uninsured. There is one primary care physician per 3,610 people in this area compared to 1: 1,330 in ohio and the same, 1:1,330 in the U.S. Total resident FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for all post-graduate years of training, e.g., 12 (4-4-4) resident FTE above the baseline resident ftes trained by the program in the prior AY; use AY 2024-2025. 12 (4-4-4) resident FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for the first AY of funding 4 (4-0-0) use AY 2025-2026. Rotation sites: state if residents within the applicant residency program will perform rotations at a hospital rotation site(s) that has not provided resident training in any prior AY. None