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Terms Used In Utah Code 26B-4-316

  • Office: means the Office of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness within the department. See Utah Code 26B-4-301
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
     (1)(a) University of Utah Health 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.
     (1)(b) Implementation and execution of the area health education center program is contingent upon appropriations from the Legislature.
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     (2)(a) The area health education center program shall consist of a central program office at University of Utah Health. The program office shall establish and operate a statewide, decentralized, regional program with emphasis on addressing rural health professions workforce education and training needs.
     (2)(b) The area health education center program shall have three regional centers serving the following geographic areas:

          (2)(b)(i) the northern center serving Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Rich, Weber, and Morgan counties;
          (2)(b)(ii) the crossroads center serving Salt Lake, Wasatch, Summit, Tooele, and Utah counties; and
          (2)(b)(iii) the southern center serving Juab, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne, Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Uintah, 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.