Scranton Primary Health Care Center is a Federally Qualified Health Care Center, located in Northeastern Pennsylvania, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Our Center opened its doors on December 12, 1978 because of our founders’ Frances Hazucha and Martha McAndrew, attempts to find medical attention for four poor people with serious health conditions. The initial efforts of these members of a local religious community have resulted in over 916,000,000 patient visits to Center providers since we opened.

Our Center has grown over the past 44+ years to provide services in internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, a prenatal clinic and social services including an outreach to the area’s homeless population along with a dental clinic. In September 2005, we opened a medical expansion to increase pediatric and prenatal access. Included in the 70 plus Center employees, our provider staff includes internists, pediatricians, family medicine providers, infectious disease specialist, nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social worker, dentists, hygienists, expanded function dental assistants, health insurance marketplace assisters and outreach worker.

Our Center’s service area includes the City of Scranton, Dunmore Borough, Blakely, Carbondale, Jermyn, Archbald, Mayfield, Old Forge, Moosic, Taylor, Dickson City, Jessup, Olyphant and Throop.

Services are provided at our main office at 959 Wyoming Avenue, along with our two satellite offices that were opened in the fall of 2017; Family Medicine Clinic at 425 Alder Street, and Student Health Clinic at Lackawanna College, both in the city of Scranton. Our target population is composed of Lackawanna County residents, many of whom are the victims of numerous health disparities. The poor specifically make up our special target population, most of whom are uninsured, underinsured, mentally and/or physically challenged. The Center attracts underserved users from the entire county, especially from the HPSAs in northern Lackawanna County as well as from the HPSAs in Monroe County southeast of Lackawanna County. The Center had 16,001 total users and 49,020 visits this past year.

In accord with our vision, which is to provide quality medical and dental services with care and compassion to the under served and to do this under the direction of the governing Board and at a reasonable cost to the community, Scranton Primary Health Care Center will continue to respond to the evolving trends and needs of our target population and service area.