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Summit County to bring behavioral-health clinic under public-health umbrella, plans staffing expansion
Summary
Summit County announced May 6 that the county will take over behavioral-health services previously provided under contract with the University of Utah. County leaders plan a phased transition, retain most clinicians as county employees, expand staffing and aim for an October service launch.
Summit County officials told their Board of Health on May 6 that the county will assume direct responsibility for behavioral-health services after contract negotiations with the University of Utah did not produce an agreement.
Phil (Health Department director) said the county council directed the transition and that Aaron Newman, the department’s behavioral-health director, will oversee the service as it moves in-house. "We will now become…
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