The Office of Health Care Reform supports initiatives to ensure that Vermont has the health care workforce necessary to provide quality care to all Vermont residents. The goal of these initiatives is to improve the availability of health care workers to meet the needs of all Vermonters across the lifespan and care continuum. Promoting permanent health care employment and residency in Vermont and connecting workers to the education and resources necessary to obtain stable, high-quality, family-sustaining health care careers will ensure high quality care for all Vermonters and create economic mobility, enabling the state’s residents to remain and thrive in their communities.
The adequate presence of a strong, well-distributed and supported health workforce is essential to the health and well-being of Vermont. Prioritizing health workforce development and management across all health care settings is a necessary component to strengthening population health, health care transformation and moving Vermonters closer to quality, accessible, affordable & equitable health care.
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ACT 48 of 2011 identifies that the Director of Health Care Reform develop a strategic approach to workforce needs and ensuring an adequate health care workforce to provide access to health care for all Vermonters. In its evolution, ACT 155 of 2020 – an act relating to increasing the supply of nurses and primary care providers in Vermont – establishes that The Director of Health Care Reform maintain a current health care workforce development strategic plan that continues efforts to ensure that Vermont has the workforce necessary to provide care to all Vermont residents. (See Strategic Plan and Advisory Committee page.)
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Vermont’s ACT 183 of 2022 adds a Limited-Service Health Care Workforce Director and a Health Care Workforce Data Center Manager to the Health Care Reform team. The Director position was created to support workforce initiatives, the advisory group and the Health Care Workforce Strategic Plan. The Data Center Manager is responsible for the creation, implementation and maintenance of a health care workforce data center.
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In support of ACT 167 of 2022, an act relating to health care reform initiatives, data collection, and access to home and community-based services, the work of the Health Care Workforce Development and Data Center team continues to strengthen the state's health care reform efforts by providing collaboration, innovation and quantitative supply and demand models on access to quality health care for all Vermonters