Tri State Community Health Center

Tri State Community Health Center is a doctor's office in Cumberland, Maryland, operating as Cumberland Primary Care at 621 Kelly Rd. The Cumberland location opened in 2002 and offers primary care to patients of all ages, with evening hours available. Raymond Banfer, MD, a native of Silver Spring, Maryland, practices at this site. He graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he served as Chief Resident of the Family Medicine Residency Program. He has been board certified in Family Medicine since 1988, and his special interests include preventive medicine and patient education. The center holds a rating of 2.30.

Tri-State Community Health Center was incorporated as a private non-profit entity in 1987, established by the community to help assure that primary healthcare services would be available to the area's under-served, rural population. The organization operates five community health center sites across Allegany and Washington counties in Maryland, Fulton County in Pennsylvania, and Morgan County in West Virginia. While its primary target population is low-income, uninsured and underinsured individuals and families, it serves all patients with and without insurance, participates with most insurance companies, and submits to workers compensation and motor vehicle accident insurances.

Services include primary care, preventive health services, and Ob/Gyn, along with a medication assistance program, an on-site case manager, prior authorizations, referrals, a refill line, a sliding fee scale discount program, language translation, and services for the hearing impaired. The health center also offers CLIA-waived diagnostic laboratory services, family planning, urgent medical care, after-hours coverage, immunizations, HIV testing, obstetrical and gynecological care, mental health treatment and counseling, developmental, vision, hearing and oral health screening, health education, transportation, translation and case management. Off-site referrals cover dental care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, crisis intervention and hospital care.

The Kelly Road office sits about a tenth of a mile from National Freeway and roughly half a mile from Greene Street, Braddock Road, the West Side neighborhood, and the F. Brooke Whiting House & Museum.

Tri-State's five sites operate in rural communities with limited employment opportunities and medical services, and the organization has grown steadily in health center users and medical visits. In 2016 it served 19,247 community residents across about 65,000 encounters, employing physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and support staff in over 130 jobs.