The Wright Center For Graduate Medical Education

The Wright Center For Graduate Medical Education, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, operates as the recipient of federal grants for graduate medical education and workforce development programs, exclusively under HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) Teaching Health Center and Primary Care Training and Enhancement funding mechanisms. The organization functions as a prime recipient only — it does not hold federal contracts, sits on IDIQs or GWACs, or work as a subcontractor.

TWCGME is characterized as an ACGME-accredited sponsoring institution and the nation's largest Teaching Health Center Program recipient for medical residency programs, managing a consortium structure that partners with Federally Qualified Health Centers and community-based ambulatory care settings. The organization's mission centers on community-based primary care physician training in medically underserved, predominantly rural regions of the Northeast and nationally distributed sites, with explicit focus on training physicians to serve low-income, uninsured, and vulnerable populations facing health disparities including chronic disease burden, substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and language access barriers.

TWCGME's customer concentration is absolute: the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals funds 30 of 37 total awards (81%), with the parent HHS HRSA entity funding 7 additional awards, accounting for 100% of the recipient's federal footprint. Recent grant work includes a $321,348 three-year award (effective March 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029) under the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (CFDA 93.530) to establish and operate the TWCGME-Scranton Family Medicine Program in consortium with Wright Center for Community Health; a $214,232 three-year award under the same program to establish the TWCGME-HealthSource of Ohio Family Medicine Program in Hillsboro, Ohio; and a $750,000 Rural Residency Planning and Development award (CFDA 93.155, dated August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028) to develop a non-ACGME-accredited rural residency in Mercer County, Pennsylvania in partnership with Primary Health Network and Allegheny Health Network. TWCGME also holds a $2,999,938 Primary Care Training and Enhancement grant for language and disability access curriculum development, a $500,000 Teaching Health Center Planning and Development award for a new pediatrics residency, and grants supporting internal medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, street medicine (mobile health clinic for people experiencing homelessness), and national family medicine network expansion across Arizona, Washington state, Ohio, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C.

Activity has declined year over year — five awards in 2022 declining to two in 2025 and two in 2026 — with six awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. Combined obligated dollars across all 37 awards total $372.4 million. The organization trains residents across disciplines including family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, geriatrics, pediatrics, and obstetrics-gynecology, with training locations serving approximately 25,000 to 33,000 patients annually in largely rural, medically underserved settings where populations are predominantly low-income, uninsured or Medicaid-eligible, and characterized by higher-than-state and national averages for chronic disease, opioid use disorder, and concentrated poverty.