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[Utah Code Table of Contents]
[TITLE 26. Table of Contents]
[CHAPTER 9. Table of Contents]
26-9-1 Assistance to rural communities by department.
The department shall assist rural communities in dealing
with primary health care needs relating to recruiting health
professionals, planning, and technical assistance. The department
shall assist the communities, at their request, at any stage
of development of new or expanded primary health care services
and shall work with them to improve primary health care by
providing information to increase the effectiveness of their
systems, to decrease duplication and fragmentation of services,
and to maximize community use of private gifts, and local,
state, and federal grants and contracts.
1981
26-9-2 Responsibility of department for coordinating rural health programs.
The department shall be the lead agency responsible for
coordinating rural health programs and shall insure that
resources available for rural health are efficiently and
effectively used.
1981
26-9-3 Rural health development initiatives.
(1) (a) The University of Utah Health Science Center shall use any appropriations it receives for developing area health education centers to establish and maintain an area health education center program in accordance with this section.
(b) Implementation and execution of the area health education center program is contingent upon appropriations from the Legislature.
(2) (a) The area health education center program shall consist of a central program office at the University of Utah Health Science Center. The program office shall establish and operate a statewide, decentralized, regional program with emphasis on addressing rural health professions workforce education and training needs.
(b) The area health education center program shall have five regional centers serving the following 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 Davis counties;
(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, and Uintah 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 professions education programming for the geographic
area described in Subsection (2)(b) of this section.
2001
