Amidst the Cedar Ridge’s silhouette, the dormers and welcoming front porch evoke a timeless Craftsman style, adorning this quaint one-and-a-half-story country cottage with nostalgic allure. Multi-paned windows, accented by cultured stone wainscoting and sturdy column supports, enhance its picturesque appeal.

Step inside to discover a floor plan thoughtfully designed for modern families. Sunlit gathering spaces abound, with the living room boasting a rear wall adorned by expansive windows framing a cozy fireplace. The living area seamlessly flows into a dining room, bathed in light from windows on two sides, and opens up to a kitchen on the opposite end. A conveniently placed powder bathroom completes this central area.

Standing at the kitchen sink, you can take in the expansive view across the flush eating bar, encompassing the dining room, covered patio, and part of the living space. Ample counter space wraps around the C-shaped kitchen, complemented by cupboards lining two walls and a spacious walk-in pantry for provisions.

The laundry facilities are just steps away in a well-appointed utility room, equipped with built-in cabinets for added convenience. Direct access to the garage allows for easy unloading of groceries even in inclement weather.

The main floor’s left wing hosts the owners’ suite and a den, accessible via a vaulted foyer adjoining the stairway. Pocket doors open to the den, which could function as a guest room or fourth bedroom, offering versatile utility. The owners’ suite features a double vanity and a sizable walk-in closet for added comfort.

Upstairs, two additional bedrooms and a bathroom await in the Cedar Ridge, alongside a vaulted attic space, providing ample room for family and guests alike.

The Cedar Ridge 30-855 is created by Associated Designs, Inc.’s talented team of residential home designers. To learn more about this design visit www.AssociatedDesigns.com.

About Associated Designs

Founded in 1990, Associated Designs offers pre-designed plans and custom design services. Created by a talented team of designers with more than 45 years of design experience, Associated Designs offers a variety of single family homes, garage and accessory structures, and multi-family designs.

A remarkable program by the Intermountain Health Community Health Team and Cheryl Swapp, a community health worker employed by the Utah’s Sanpete County Sheriff’s Department, was honored this week.

Working with substance use and opioid use disorders with incarcerated individuals resulted in a remarkable reduction in recidivism – where individuals are resent to the jail after release for repeating criminal behavior. In the 18 months before Swapp was hired, Sanpete County had 599 repeat offender bookings. In the 18 months since the community health worker program with Swapp began at the jail, there have been 236 repeat offender bookings, representing a 61 percent reduction in recidivism.

Intermountain’s Community Health team, alongside community health worker Cheryl Swapp, presented this initiative and its results at the 2024 Health Resources and Services Administration Reverse Site Visit Meetings in Washington, DC.

The 1,000-person audience of grantees and HRSA officials selected Intermountain’s Community Health team as one of six grantees to present at the conference out of hundreds that were represented in attendance. The team’s presentation was the top winner among the other six other grantees based on the following criteria: community impact, creativity, wow factor, applicability, and overall presentation.

As the team noted in their presentation, the resources and clinical support provided through this grant and Intermountain Health have resulted in a large reduction in repeat offender bookings at Sanpete County Jail.

The project started back in 2020 when Intermountain’s Community Health team received a HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Planning Grant to conduct a robust needs assessment in Central Utah.

In 2021, Intermountain Health received two HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grants: Implementation III and the Psychostimulant Support Grant, totaling $1.5 million dollars in funding.

With that funding, Intermountain hired Swapp, a community health worker employed by the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office in July of 2022. Swapp has become an advocate for people in the jail in many ways, during their sentence and after they leave.

“Cheryl is deeply connected to the community she serves. She advocates effectively for the individuals she works with and supports them with compassion, thoughtfulness, and empathy,” said Sarah Diefendorf, Intermountain Community Health director. “Cheryl embodies the best of community health workers and the best of caregivers, and we could not do this work without her.”

Swapp conducts the substance and opioid use screenings, works to help send jail staff to conferences and trainings, and holds Moral Reconation Therapy. USARA is able to hold peer support classes as well. Swapp then meets with incarcerated individuals in the criminal justice system and follows up with upon their exit from the jail.

“Access to resources is a necessity for individuals leaving incarceration. With our Community Health Worker, we now have the tools to effectively assist these individuals in reintegrating into the community,” said Sgt. Gretchen Nunley, with Programming at Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office. “Rather than departing without guidance on their next steps, they leave with a plan and a sense of security, knowing they have our community health worker to support them.”

Dominique Felton was one of the people helped by the program and Swapp. She had started using drugs at 13 years old. In her 20’s, which escalated to selling drugs to maintain her habit. By the time she was incarcerated, she had 10 warrants for her arrest.

In the Sanpete County Jail in Utah, her life would get the turn-around needed thanks to the work of Cheryl Swapp and Intermountain’s Community Health team.

“Cheryl kept in contact with a rehab [facility] that I wanted to go to and made sure they had a bed for me,” Felton said. “Without her, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Felton is now over a year sober, employed, and reconnected with her children.

“There are people back at the Sanpete County jail that are waiting to take that first step in a lifestyle change and I can’t wait to be there to help them. There is so much more I want to do to expand the program before the grant ends,” Swapp said.

This would not be possible without key community collaborators in this work, including the:

• Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office
• Central Utah Counseling Center
• Central Utah Department of Health
• Fourpoints Health
• Salt Lake Harm Reduction Coalition
• Snow College
• South Sanpete County School District
• Utah Office of the Medical Examiner
• USARA (Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness)

“I think this work embodies one of our core values as an organization: that we are better together,” Diefendorf said. “We would not see the success we celebrate today with our work on opioid use in Central Utah without the strong support and collaboration with our community partners and project officers at HRSA. This funding has given us the opportunity to build a new program to respond to a community need together.”

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1.5 million with 100 percentage funded by HRSA/HHS and $0 and zero percentage funded by nongovernment sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

About Intermountain Health

Headquartered in Utah with locations in seven states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, medical groups with some 3,900 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs. For more information or updates, see https://intermountainhealthcare.org/news.

Centific, a leading innovator in generative AI (GenAI), today announced the strategic appointment of Shiva Jayaraman as its new Chief Growth Officer (CGO). This move is part of Centific’s ambitious plan to capitalize on the surging demand for applied GenAI, aiming to achieve exponential growth, and assist industry clients in overcoming initial execution barriers to quickly realize value.

Since its inception in 2020, Centific has collaborated with “Magnificent Seven” companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Apple, to develop and refine foundational large language models (LLMs) through comprehensive data services, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), red teaming, and robust AI safety governance.

As Centific embarks on a transformative journey toward zero-distance innovation, Jayaraman’s role will be crucial in transferring best practices from AI creators to leading innovators and broad industry clients. His leadership is expected to significantly enhance Centific’s capability to embed business value through scalable GenAI applications.

“Shiva’s people-first approach and his commitment to customer satisfaction are deeply aligned with Centific’s core values,” said Venkat Rangapuram, CEO of Centific. “His vision will play a pivotal role in our continuous efforts to drive innovation and deliver substantial value to our clients through practical applications of GenAI.”

Centific CFO Heng Choon Lim praised Jayaraman’s innovative thinking and growth-oriented mindset, noting, “His unique ability to meld diverse ideas and structure large engagements greatly advances Centific’s endeavors to deepen relationships with customers and partners, in the frontiers of GenAI and beyond.”

Reflecting on his new role, Jayaraman expressed enthusiasm about the potential applications of Centific’s assets in real-world settings. “The high-quality datasets and RAG pipeline we offer can significantly expedite strategy execution and value realization for our clients,” he said. “These are critical components that will help enterprises to apply GenAI at scale with low cost and high speed to market. Our work with industry customers is already picking up—including home improvement retailers, coffee chains, CPG companies, and logistics firms.”

Looking ahead to 2025, Shiva will continue to capitalize on this demand and drive Centific to the next phase of parabolic growth.

About Centific

Centific expertly engineers platforms and curates multimodal, multilingual data to empower the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes over 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We leverage platforms, partners, and 1.8 million vertical domain experts to create high-quality pre-trained datasets, fine-tuned industry-specific LLMs, and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our innovations can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring GenAI solutions to market 50% faster in 230 locales.

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