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The Virginia Department of Health oversees public health throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It has 35 local health districts. It has 35 local health districts. [ 1 ]
In many ways, the Board is the policy-making arm of the Virginia Department of Health and the law gives the Board a variety of important duties. The Board establishes the framework for Virginia's public health services. [3] The Board also approves regulations for the Department of Health and can grant exemptions from those regulations. [4]
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The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services system through a system of forty locally and regionally run community services boards (CSBs) and twelve state-operated facilities [1] which serve children ...
The secretary of health and human resources is a member of the Virginia Governor's Cabinet. The office is currently vacant pending confirmation of John Littel, Governor Glenn Youngkin's nominee for the post. [1]
Although the vast majority of these agencies are officially called "departments," the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials adopted "state health agency" as the generic term to reflect the fact that a substantial number of these agencies are no longer state "departments" in the traditional sense of a cabinet-level organizational unit dedicated exclusively to public health. [2]
Established by the Virginia General Assembly in 2012, [3] the agency is headquartered in Henrico, Virginia and is overseen by the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, with day-to-day operations led by an agency commissioner appointed by the Governor of Virginia. [4]
The VHQC serves as an advocate for Virginia's Medicare beneficiaries, providing education and handling complaints. The VHQC provides quality improvement assistance to Virginia's acute care hospitals and more than 700 physicians in a number of clinical topics such as heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, breast cancer and diabetes. In addition, the ...