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Show 3 from Moab named to J Health Systems Council I Three Grand County residents resi-dents have been appointed to the Utah Health Systems Agency's (Utah HSA) Sub-area Sub-area Advisory Council for the Southeastern Utah area. In action taken at the annual meeting of the Utah HSA June 2, Betty Dalton, and Marjorie Tomsic were named as members of the Subarea Advisory Council (SAC), and Allen Memorial Hospital Administrator J. Kay Hawks was appointed an ex-officio member of the council. coun-cil. Another Grand County resident will be named to the council in the near future. The volunteers from Grand County will serve with representatives rep-resentatives from Carbon, Emery and San Juan Counties helping the Utah HSA perform per-form its planning and review functions in the four counties. The first meeting of this newly-formed council will be held June 22 in Price. The Utah HSA was created in July of 1976 by the Utah State Legislature to implement imple-ment the state and national health planning laws. Even though Utah HSA functions under both state and federal laws it is not a part of either body, but serves as a public regional planning body responsible re-sponsible for the health planning plan-ning that goes on in Utah. During the next 14 months members of the SAC will be meeting at least every six weeks with agency health planners to participate in the establishment of a health systems sys-tems plan, which is to be a broad-based goal-oriented plan, covering a 5-year period, and an annual implementation plan which is a 1-year plan that leads the state towards the accomplishment of the health systems plan. According to Paul Boumbu-lian, Boumbu-lian, executive director of Utah HSA, 'The basic ingredient ingred-ient to the success of the agency is input from local elected officials and providers and consumers of health care. The SAC structure will facilitate facili-tate this much needed input." SAC's are being established in each multi-county planning district in the state. When all the SAC's are established, over 200 volunteers will be closely involved in the development devel-opment of health policy for Utah. |