The Department of Health shall, as part of the Primary Health Care Practitioners Program provided for in this chapter, establish a program for awarding demonstration grants to promote the training, recruitment and retention of primary health care practitioners in designated medically underserved areas and to promote innovative methods for delivery of primary medical services in rural designated medically underserved areas. The purpose of these grants may include, but need not be limited to, the following:

Such programs may include challenge grants to medical schools to promote medical education opportunities for primary health care professionals and assistance to communities to establish clinics, including mobile health clinics. In establishing priorities, the department shall give preference to programs which promote coordination of existing resources, particularly in rural areas.