26-9-3 - Rural health development initiatives. - Utah Statutes

26-9-3. Rural health development initiatives.
(1) (a) The University of Utah Health Science Center shall use any appropriations itreceives for developing area health education centers to establish and maintain an area healtheducation center program in accordance with this section.
(b) Implementation and execution of the area health education center program iscontingent upon appropriations from the Legislature.
(2) (a) The area health education center program shall consist of a central program officeat the University of Utah Health Science Center. The program office shall establish and operate astatewide, decentralized, regional program with emphasis on addressing rural health professionsworkforce education and training needs.
(b) The area health education center program shall have five regional centers serving thefollowing geographic areas:
(i) the northern center serving Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber, and Morgan counties;
(ii) the crossroads center serving Salt Lake, Wasatch, Summit, Tooele, Utah, and Daviscounties;
(iii) the central center serving Juab, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, and Wayne counties;
(iv) the eastern center serving Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan, andUintah counties; and
(v) the southwest center serving Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Washington counties.
(3) The area health education center program shall attempt to acquire funding from state,local, federal, and private sources.
(4) Each area health education center shall provide community-based health professionseducation programming for the geographic area described in Subsection (2)(b) of this section.

Amended by Chapter 95, 2001 General Session