The Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center works to improve the data collection and measurement of Virginia’s healthcare workforce through regular assessment of workforce supply and demand issues among the over 62 professions and the over 500,000 practitioners licensed in Virginia by DHP
The Virginia Department of Health Professions provides voluntary surveys to Department of Health Professions’ licensees through the Department’s online application and renewal processes. Survey reports for each profession are released a few months after the end of each renewal cycle. Survey reports for each profession are released a few months after the end of each renewal cycle.
Visit the Calendar page to see surveys in collection, grouped by renewal date.
Initially, the HWDC provided analytic support for surveys created by DHP’s regulatory boards or committees of professionals. Over the past few years the HWDC has adopted a standardized survey template.; Since our renewal cycles are measured in years, the HWDC is continuing to implement the standardized template for currently surveyed professions, as well as expanding it to new professions. The healthcare workforce operates largely within a national market and the HWDC is working with HRSA's National Center for Health Workforce Analysis as it develops national standards and minimum datasets.
Section 54.1-2506.1 of the Code of Virginia provides for the Department's collection and maintenance of HWDC data for workforce and health planning purposes. HWDC data are released in aggregate reporting only unless record-level information is required for the purpose of determining health professional shortage area (HPSA) designations. The Department has now become a partner agency within the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS). VLDS provides an effective way for partnering state agencies to enable data sharing with qualified researchers using rigorous standards that meet or exceed all state and federal confidentiality requirements. Please familiarize yourself with the VLDS process here and contact us to be your sponsoring agency.
The healthcare workforce operates largely within a national market and the HWDC is working with HRSA's National Center for Health Workforce Analysis and the National Forum for State Nursing Workforce Centers as they develop supply and demand estimates, national standards, and minimum supply and demand datasets.
