Bulletin Staff Writer An Area Health Education Center will open in Mountain Home early next month in conjunction with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas State University Mountain Home and Baxter Regional Medical Center. "Like all of our AHECs, the goal for AHEC North Central is to help increase the number of health-care providers and improve the quality of health care, especially in small and rural communities," said Charles O. Cranford, D.D.S., vice chancellor for regional programs and executive director of the AHEC program.