Agencies in the Health and Human Resources Secretariat are responsible for service delivery and management of responses to critical health and human resource issues in the Commonwealth. Agencies in the secretariat promote self-sufficiency and independence, assure access to affordable quality health care, strengthen families, improve care and treatment for individuals who are mentally or physically impaired, increase awareness and accessibility of long-term care, and improve the quality of life for older Virginians. In addition, Health and Human Resources agencies ensure safety for citizens through inspection programs for food safety, environmental health, hospitals and nursing homes, as well as oversight of certain health care professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and counselors.
Highlights of Key Objectives
- Achieve safe, permanent families for children in foster care
- Maximize the number of individuals served in community and family-based settings.
- Assist low-income Virginians and individuals with disabilities to become employed and maintain employment and independence.
- Ensure prompt processing of health professional licensure and complaint investigations.
- Increase immunization rates of children and adults 65 years of age and older.
- Reduce the prevalence of obesity, smoking, teenage pregnancy and infant mortality.
- Increase access to safe and affordable drinking water.
- Improve birth outcomes for Medicaid recipients.
- Increase children's access to health services.
- Increase child support collections.
- Prevent child maltreatment.
- Prevent child maltreatment.
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