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Strategic Plan and Advisory Committee

The Strategic Plan focuses on strategies to improve the availability of nurses, primary care physicians, dental care providers, and mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals and recommends future work to delve more deeply into the barriers for non-licensed allied health, direct support professionals (e.g. personal care attendants and home care aides), peers, and community health workers to join the workforce. The latter group of professionals requires improved availability to meet the service needs of older and disabled Vermonters. 

In maintaining the strategic plan, the Director or designee shall consult with an advisory group composed of one representative from the following 11 agencies, at least one of whom shall be a nurse, to develop and maintain the strategic plan:  

  • The Green Mountain Care Board’s Primary Care Advisory Group 
  • Vermont State Colleges 
  • Area Health Education Centers’ 
  • Federally Qualified Health Centers  
  • Vermont Hospitals
  • Physicians 
  • Mental Health Professions 
  • Dentists   
  • Naturopathic Physicians  
  • Home Health Agencies   
  • Long-Term Care Facilities 

The Advisory Committee is a sub-committee to the State Workforce Development Board and is made up of the below members:

  • Chair: Suzanne Tremblay, Health Care Workforce Development Director, State of Vermont  
  • Jill Olson, Executive Director, Visiting Nurse Associations of Vermont  
  • Elizabeth Cote, Director, University of Vermont Area Health Education Center
  • Stephanie Pagliuca, Director of Workforce Development and Recruitment, Bi-State Primary Care Association  
  • Jessa Barnard, Executive Director, Vermont Medical Society  
  • Anne Bilodeau, Chief of Human Resources Officer, Health Care & Rehabilitation Services  
  • Patrick Gallivan, Executive Director, Vermont State Dental Society  
  • Devon Green, Vice President of Government Relations, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
  • Johanna Beliveau, President and Chief Executive Officer, Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire  
  • Helen Labun, Executive Director, Vermont Health Care Association  
  • One representative- Vermont State University
  • Jessica Wood, Director and Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Norwich University  
  • Brian Kerns, Vice President of Human Resources, Rutland Regional Medical Center  
  • Steve Gordon, President and CEO, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital   
  • Baron Glassgow, Naturopathic Physicians   
  • Sam Russo, Legislative Chair, Vermont Association of Naturopathic Physicians   

Meeting Minutes and Agendas: