Western Montana Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

What is an AHEC? The AHEC program taps the resources of academic medicine to address local community health needs.

The Area Health Education Center (AHEC) program was developed by Congress in 1971 to recruit, train, and retain a health professions workforce committed to underserved populations. The strength of the AHEC Network is its ability to creatively adapt national initiatives to help address local and regional healthcare issues. Nationwide, 54 AHEC programs, with over 200 regional centers work with 120 m  ...