09/15/2025
The Wright Center for Community Health expands behavioral health team with addition of psychiatrist
Scranton, Pa. (Sept. 9, 2025) – The Wright Center for Community Health has expanded access to high-quality psychiatry services in Northeast Pennsylvania by welcoming Dr. Maximo B. Lockward, a bilingual Spanish-speaking psychiatrist, to its behavioral health team. He is now available for adult patients through office-based remote appointments.
Dr. Lockward earned his medical degree from Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, New York, and completed his psychiatry residency at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, a specialty division of UPMC in Pittsburgh.
At The Wright Center, he serves in a combined clinical, educational, and administrative role, providing direct patient care while also teaching and supervising resident physicians and medical students. He will offer a full spectrum of psychiatric services, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and medication management.
In addition, Dr. Lockward will oversee three psychiatric nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants and serve as a consultative resource for primary care physicians across The Wright Center’s 13 community health centers. His leadership supports the organization’s ongoing effort to fully integrate behavioral health into its whole-person, community-based primary care model.
Dr. Lockward brings extensive experience in community psychiatry and telepsychiatry, having previously practiced in western and southeastern Pennsylvania as well as in Ohio.
His arrival comes as a critical time. The United States is facing a mental health crisis, with widespread shortages of behavioral health clinicians. According to the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce, 23% of U.S. adults – about 59 million – experienced a mental illness in 2023, and nearly half did not receive treatment. Patients often face long waits, high costs, or lack of coverage. The national average wait time for behavioral health services in currently 48 days.
The Wright Center is working to close those gaps. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Lockwood or another member of the behavioral health team, visit TheWrightCenter.org or call 570-230-0019.
Headquartered in Scranton, The Wright Center’s growing network of community health centers in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, and Wyoming counties, including a mobile medical and dental unit called Driving Better Health, provides affordable, high-quality, whole-person primary health services to everyone, regardless of insurance status, ZIP code, or ability to pay. Patients typically have the convenience of going to a single location to access integrated medical, dental, and behavioral health care, as well as community-based addiction and treatment and recovery services.
