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The Office of Primary Care and Rural Health is a health resource for Utah's rural, multicultural and underserved communities. The Office coordinates federal, state, and local efforts aimed at improving the health of Utah's rural, medically underserved, and multicultural residents.
The Office works with communities that need assistance conducting needs assessments, recruiting health care professionals, grant writing, identifying sources of funding and implementing other projects related to decreasing disparity and increasing access to primary health care.
Planning and Policy Development
- Capacity building
- Needs assessments
- Collaboration with other agencies and organizations
Assistance to Communities
- Needs assessment and analysis
- Strategic planning
- Grant writing assistance
- Cultural awareness
Provider Recruitment and Retention
- Promotion of practice opportunities to physicians, dentists, nurses, mental health therapists, and physician assistants
- Determination of shortage area designations
- Coordination of state and federal loan repayment and scholarship programs
- Coordination of National Health Service Corps and Conrad 30 J-1 Visa Waiver programs
- Furnish recruitment and retention training
Information Clearinghouse
- Provide research and reports
- Provide access to workforce databases
- Publish newsletters
- Provide news bulletins
- Provide medical interpreters' directory
- Publish shortage area designations
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