HD41 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Feasibility of Preserving a Regional Health Planning Mechanism

  • Published: 1983
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying the Feasibility of Preserving a Regional Health Planning Mechanism
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 104 (Regular Session, 1982)

Executive Summary:
During the 1982 Session of the General Assembly, House Joint Resolution No. 104 was passed which requested the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to establish the Joint Subcommittee to Study the Feasibility of Preserving a Regional Health Planning Mechanism in the Commonwealth.

The rationale for this study was the apparent need to preserve regional health planning in Virginia in the face of drastic reductions or potential termination in federal financial support.

The Joint Subcommittee was composed of five legislative members, three members of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and two members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health. Seven citizen members were included who were representatives of the State Department of Health, the health systems agencies, health insurers, physicians, hospital management, the business community and consumers. In addition, the Subcommittee agreed to appoint a representative of the Commonwealth's nurses to serve as an ex officio member.

The legislative members were: Delegate Warren G. Stambaugh, Chairman; Senator Edward M. Holland, Vice-Chairman; Senator Elmon T. Gray; Delegate Mary A. Marshall; and Delegate C. Jefferson Stafford. The citizen members were in the order of group representation: Raymond O. Perry, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Health; Thomas R. Bernier, Executive Director, Northwestern Virginia Health Systems Agency, Inc.; James L. Gore, Vice-President, Provider Relations, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Richmond; George E. Broman, M. D., Culpeper; Carter T. Melton, Administrator, Rockingham Memorial Hospital; E. Wayne Titmus, Manager, Health Care Cost Unit, Reynolds Metals Corporation; Gillium M. Cobbs, Principal, Sandusky Middle School, Lynchburg; and Barbara S. Bolton, Executive Director, Virginia Nurses Association.