The Wright Center for Community Health holding COVID-19 and routine vaccination clinic at Casa Dominicana de Hazleton

Scranton, Pa. (March 21, 2022) – The Wright Center for Community Health is holding a Driving Better Health Vaccination and Health Clinic at Casa Dominicana de Hazleton, 32 E. Broad St., Hazleton, on Friday, April 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Driving Better Health is a 34-foot mobile medical unit that brings high-quality health care services directly to the underserved communities of Northeast Pennsylvania. The mobile medical unit has been serving populations of special concern since 2020. It is regularly deployed to senior living centers, regional schools, homeless shelters and other community gathering spots.

COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are available for anybody age 5 and up. Resident physicians and clinical staff can also provide flu vaccines and routine vaccinations, as well as routine physical examinations. A guardian must accompany patients who are younger than 17. The Wright Center for Community Health clinical staff will also offer COVID-19 testing.

Guests are asked to observe public safety measures, including masking and social distancing, during the clinic and bring identification and insurance cards.

Walk-up appointments are welcome depending on vaccine availability, but appointments are encouraged for the convenience of patients. Please go to TheWrightCenter.org or call 570-230-0019 to schedule an appointment.

The Wright Center for Community Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike. Community health centers offer affordable, safety-net health care services and are the largest providers of primary care for the nation’s most vulnerable and medically underserved populations. Prevalent in both urban and rural settings, community health centers are located in regions with high-poverty rates and/or low numbers of private or nonprofit health care systems and hospitals.

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The Wright Center for Community Health’s 34-foot Driving Better Health mobile medical unit brings high-quality health care services directly to the most vulnerable and medically underserved populations in Northeast Pennsylvania. A Driving Better Health Vaccination and Health Clinic will be held Friday, April 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Casa Dominicana de Hazleton, 32 E. Broad St., Hazleton.

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ABOUT THE WRIGHT CENTER

The Wright Center’s mission is to improve the health and welfare of our community through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve. This mission is carried out in two complementary entities: The Wright Center for Community Health (TWCCH) and The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (TWCGME). The passionate purpose of both is to demonstrate an “achievable by all” Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium model that co-creates transformational health care teams of leaders who empower people, families and communities to own and optimize their health and health care delivery system, while our niche is providing world-class, innovative and responsive primary health care through community-centric, incumbent and future workforce renewal.

TWCCH is a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike with a growing network of community health centers throughout Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wayne counties that provide safety-net, comprehensive primary and preventive health care, including medical, dental, mental health, addiction and recovery, and Ryan White HIV services to medically underserved populations regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.

TWCGME is the nation’s largest HRSA-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Consortium that is dedicated to training compassionate, highly skilled physicians in community immersed clinical learning networks collectively striving to address our nation’s physician shortage and related health care access disparities.

The Wright Center for Patient and Community Engagement (TWCPCE) is a nonprofit that complements TWCCH and TWCGME’s mission through patient and community engagement in the delivery, enhancement and transformation of primary health care services, interprofessional workforce development and improvement of public health through education, advocacy and promotion of patient-centered services and responsive address of the social and economic determinants of health that affect underserved and rural communities. TWCPCE accomplishes its mission by providing project-based programming and volunteer engagement for educational and outreach initiatives that include health fairs, blood drives, distribution of healthy nonperishable food items, fresh produce, winter coats and clothing, and other programs that address transportation, social isolation and more.

For more information, visit TheWrightCenter.org.

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