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Subcommittee amps up health workforce bill: creates Virginia Nursing Workforce Center, boosts GME award
Summary
House Bill 1903, amended, passed the subcommittee unanimously and would create a Virginia Nursing Workforce Center, direct a long-term workforce planning process, improve interagency coordination and increase graduate medical education awards; the measure was reported and referred to appropriations as amended.
The House Health Professions Subcommittee voted unanimously to report House Bill 1903, as amended, moving the package of health-workforce changes to the Appropriations Committee. Sponsors described the bill as building on recent progress by the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority and added new coordination and funding elements.
Key provisions described by sponsor Delegate Willett include creating a Virginia Nursing…
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