Tower Health-Reading Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a longstanding community hospital-based Family Medicine residency in suburban West Reading, PA, with full Osteopathic Recognition and a 45+ year history, supporting 24 residents. The program's Family Health Care Center operates on a Patient-Centered Medical Home model serving a socially and medically complex, all-ages patient population, and residents carry primary ownership of inpatient family medicine and pediatric services. Programmatic emphasis on pediatric care, community medicine, and behavioral/addiction medicine, combined with explicit integration of osteopathic philosophy and evidence-based practice, signals a broad-scope, generalist training identity rooted in whole-person, community-oriented care rather than subspecialty or research pipeline production. The stated mission—"empower our community to thrive through humanistic care enlightened by scholarship"—points to valuing residents who are service-minded, comfortable with complexity and continuity, and interested in comprehensive primary care over narrow procedural or academic tracks.