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The Authority is hereby constituted as a public instrumentality, exercising public and essential governmental functions with the power and purpose to provide for the health, welfare, convenience, knowledge, benefit, and prosperity of the residents of the Commonwealth and such other persons who might be served by the Authority. The Authority is established to move the Commonwealth forward in achieving its vision of ensuring a quality health workforce for all Virginians.B\n\nThe mission of the Authority is to facilitate the development of a statewide health professions pipeline that identifies, educates, recruits, and retains a diverse, appropriately geographically distributed, and culturally competent quality workforce. The mission of the Authority is accomplished by (i) providing the statewide infrastructure required for health workforce needs assessment and planning that maintains engagement by health professions training programs in decision making and program implementation; (ii) serving as the advisory board and setting priorities for the Virginia Area Health Education Centers Program; (iii) coordinating with and serving as a resource to relevant state, regional, and local entities, including the Department of Health Professions Workforce Data Center, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the Joint Commission on Health Care, the Behavioral Health Commission, the Southwest Virginia Health Authority, or any similar regional health authority that may be developed; (iv) informing state and local policy development as it pertains to health care delivery, training, and education; (v) identifying and promoting evidence-based strategies for health workforce pipeline development and interdisciplinary health care service models, particularly those affecting rural and other underserved areas; (vi) supporting communities in their health workforce recruitment and retention efforts and developing partnerships and promoting models of participatory engagement with business and community-based and social organizations to foster integration of health care training and education; (vii) setting priorities for and evaluating graduate medical education programs overseen by the Commonwealth; (viii) advocating for programs that will result in reducing the debt load of newly trained health professionals; (ix) setting priorities for and managing the Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund; (x) identifying high priority target areas within each region of the Commonwealth and working toward health workforce development initiatives that improve health measurably in those areas; (xi) fostering or creating innovative health workforce development models that provide both health and economic benefits to the regions they serve; (xii) developing strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce by examining demographic data on race and ethnicity in training programs and health professional licensure; (xiii) identifying ways to leverage technology to increase access to health workforce training and health care delivery; and (xiv) developing a centralized health care careers roadmap in partnership with the Department of Health Professions that includes information on both licensed and unlicensed professions and that is disseminated to the Commonwealth’s health care workforce stakeholders to raise awareness about available career pathways.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":219506,"text":"There is hereby created as a public body corporate and as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority (the Authority), with such public and corporate powers as are set forth in § 32.1-122.7:2. 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This law was first created in 1990. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 874 and 877 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1990 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1997, chapter 329<\/a>; in 2000, chapter 480<\/a>; in 2010, chapters 187<\/a> and 488<\/a>; in 2024, chapters 754<\/a> and 761<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":78001,"section_number":"2.2-2040.1","catch_line":"Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-2040.1\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":67594,"section_number":"32.1-122.7:2","catch_line":"Powers and duties of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; exemptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-122.7_2\/"}],"permalink":{"id":202789,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59942,"identifier":"32.1-122.7","token":"32.1\/4\/6\/32.1-122.7","url":"\/32.1-122.7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/32.1-122.7\/","token":"32.1\/4\/6\/32.1-122.7","dublin_core":{"Title":"Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 32.1-122.7","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> There is hereby created as a public body corporate and as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority (the Authority), with such public and corporate powers as are set forth in § 32.1-122.7:2<\/a>. The Authority is hereby constituted as a public instrumentality, exercising public and essential governmental functions with the power and purpose to provide for the health, welfare, convenience, knowledge, benefit, and prosperity of the residents of the Commonwealth and such other persons<\/span> who might be served by the Authority. The Authority is established to move the Commonwealth forward in achieving its vision of ensuring a quality health workforce for all Virginians. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The mission of the Authority is to facilitate the development of a statewide health professions pipeline that identifies, educates, recruits, and retains a diverse, appropriately geographically distributed, and culturally competent quality workforce. The mission of the Authority is accomplished by (i) providing the statewide infrastructure required for health workforce needs assessment and planning that maintains engagement by health professions training programs in decision making and program implementation; (ii) serving as the advisory board<\/span> and setting priorities for the Virginia Area Health Education Centers Program; (iii) coordinating with and serving as a resource to relevant state, regional, and local entities, including the Department<\/span> of Health Professions Workforce Data Center, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the Joint Commission on Health Care, the Behavioral Health Commission, the Southwest Virginia Health Authority, or any similar regional health authority that may be developed; (iv) informing state and local policy development as it pertains to health care delivery, training, and education; (v) identifying and promoting evidence<\/span>-based strategies for health workforce pipeline development and interdisciplinary health care service models, particularly those affecting rural and other underserved areas; (vi) supporting communities in their health workforce recruitment and retention efforts and developing partnerships and promoting models of participatory engagement with business and community-based and social organizations to foster integration of health care training and education; (vii) setting priorities for and evaluating graduate medical education programs overseen by the Commonwealth; (viii) advocating for programs that will result in reducing the debt load of newly trained health professionals; (ix) setting priorities for and managing the Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund; (x) identifying high priority target areas within each region of the Commonwealth and working toward health workforce development initiatives that improve health measurably in those areas; (xi) fostering or creating innovative health workforce development models that provide both health and economic benefits to the regions they serve; (xii) developing strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce by examining demographic data on race and ethnicity in training programs and health professional licensure; (xiii) identifying ways to leverage technology to increase access to health workforce training and health care delivery; and (xiv) developing a centralized health care careers roadmap in partnership with the Department<\/span> of Health Professions that includes information on both licensed and unlicensed professions and that is disseminated to the Commonwealth’s health care workforce stakeholders to raise awareness about available career pathways. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVIRGINIA HEALTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY; PURPOSE (\u00a7 32.1-122.7)\n\nA. There is hereby created as a public body corporate and as a political\nsubdivision of the Commonwealth the Virginia Health Workforce Development\nAuthority (the Authority), with such public and corporate powers as are set\nforth in § 32.1-122.7:2. The Authority is hereby constituted as a public\ninstrumentality, exercising public and essential governmental functions with the\npower and purpose to provide for the health, welfare, convenience, knowledge,\nbenefit, and prosperity of the residents of the Commonwealth and such other\npersons who might be served by the Authority. The Authority is established to\nmove the Commonwealth forward in achieving its vision of ensuring a quality\nhealth workforce for all Virginians.\n\nB. The mission of the Authority is to facilitate the development of a statewide\nhealth professions pipeline that identifies, educates, recruits, and retains a\ndiverse, appropriately geographically distributed, and culturally competent\nquality workforce. The mission of the Authority is accomplished by (i) providing\nthe statewide infrastructure required for health workforce needs assessment and\nplanning that maintains engagement by health professions training programs in\ndecision making and program implementation; (ii) serving as the advisory board\nand setting priorities for the Virginia Area Health Education Centers Program;\n(iii) coordinating with and serving as a resource to relevant state, regional,\nand local entities, including the Department of Health Professions Workforce\nData Center, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the Joint\nCommission on Health Care, the Behavioral Health Commission, the Southwest\nVirginia Health Authority, or any similar regional health authority that may be\ndeveloped; (iv) informing state and local policy development as it pertains to\nhealth care delivery, training, and education; (v) identifying and promoting\nevidence-based strategies for health workforce pipeline development and\ninterdisciplinary health care service models, particularly those affecting rural\nand other underserved areas; (vi) supporting communities in their health\nworkforce recruitment and retention efforts and developing partnerships and\npromoting models of participatory engagement with business and community-based\nand social organizations to foster integration of health care training and\neducation; (vii) setting priorities for and evaluating graduate medical\neducation programs overseen by the Commonwealth; (viii) advocating for programs\nthat will result in reducing the debt load of newly trained health\nprofessionals; (ix) setting priorities for and managing the Virginia Health Care\nCareer and Technical Training and Education Fund; (x) identifying high priority\ntarget areas within each region of the Commonwealth and working toward health\nworkforce development initiatives that improve health measurably in those areas;\n(xi) fostering or creating innovative health workforce development models that\nprovide both health and economic benefits to the regions they serve; (xii)\ndeveloping strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce by examining\ndemographic data on race and ethnicity in training programs and health\nprofessional licensure; (xiii) identifying ways to leverage technology to\nincrease access to health workforce training and health care delivery; and (xiv)\ndeveloping a centralized health care careers roadmap in partnership with the\nDepartment of Health Professions that includes information on both licensed and\nunlicensed professions and that is disseminated to the Commonwealth’s\nhealth care workforce stakeholders to raise awareness about available career\npathways.\n\nHISTORY: 1990, cc. 874, 877; 1997, c. 329; 2000, c. 480; 2010, cc. 187, 488;\n2021, Sp. 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