The Wright Center Medical Group

The Wright Center for Community Health (doing business as The Wright Center Medical Group) is a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike and Pennsylvania State Center of Excellence for Opioid/Substance Use Disorder Treatment that operates as a prime recipient of federal health grants, with no federal contracts or contract vehicles. Headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the organization is a nonprofit tax-exempt entity that delivers primary care, mental and substance abuse services, oral health, prenatal and postnatal care, pediatrics, telehealth, and case management services across Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties in northeastern Pennsylvania, serving more than 50,000 patients of whom 70 percent live at or below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines.

The Wright Center's federal footprint is concentrated in health grants from the Department of Health and Human Services. The top funding mechanisms span the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Bureau of Health Professionals, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau. Recent prime grant awards include a $1.3 million Health Center Program project grant (CFDA 93.224) awarded August 1, 2026, to establish and operate a new primary care access point clinic in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania; a $500,000 Teaching Health Center Planning and Development grant (April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2026) to develop a new accredited community-based pediatric dentistry residency program; a Rural Health Care Services Outreach grant (August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2029) for the Wayne-Pike-Hawley Health Initiative addressing heart disease prevention and management through lifestyle medicine in rural Wayne and Pike Counties; and a Rural Communities Opioid Response Program grant (September 1, 2023, through August 31, 2026) addressing neonatal abstinence syndrome. The organization also holds or has held grants for Ryan White Title III HIV capacity development (dental expansion), Bridge Access, and COVID-19 vaccination and testing programs.

As a subrecipient, the Wright Center participates in federal grant funding managed by state pass-through entities and academic institutions. Recent sub-grants include behavioral health curriculum development work as a subrecipient under AT Still University's osteopathic medicine and dental school training initiative, pregnancy support services for substance use disorder under the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, medication-assisted treatment delivery, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination outreach under Duke University and Pennsylvania Department of Health funding. Activity has declined in recent years — seven awards in 2022, four in 2023, and one each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with only two awards facing completion in the next twenty-four months. The organization's grant portfolio reflects its mission-driven focus on underserved populations in rural and urban northeastern Pennsylvania rather than federal contracting.