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Seals of the Commonwealth of Virginia of the Dept. of Health Professions, undated. Accession 51317, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Accession 51317 was transferred by Dept. of Health Professions, 5/1/2014
The Dept. of Health Regulatory Boards was created by an act passed by the General Assembly on March 31, 1977, to provide administrative services to the health regulatory boards of the state. The boards continue to regulate their professions through the examination, licensing, and disciplining of the practitioners of health science. In 1986, the Dept. of Health Regulatory Boards became the Dept. of Health Professions. Its mission is to enhance the delivery of safe and competent health care by licensing qualified health care professionals, enforcing standards of practice, and providing information to both practitioners and consumers of health care services.
The Dept. of Health Professions oversees the following regulatory boards: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology; Counseling; Dentistry; Funeral Directors and Embalmers; Health Professions; Long-Term Care Administrators; Medicine; Nursing; Optometry; Pharmacy; Physical Therapy; Psychology; Social Work; and Veterinary Medicine.
Seals of the Commonwealth of Virginia, undated, used by the Virginia Dept. of Health Professions. Contains six versions of the seal, some of which were made by Universal Engraving. Seals were likely used to emboss certificates issued by the various boards that are a part of the Virginia Dept. of Health Professions. All of the seals show only the obverse.
These records are part of the Dept. of Health Professions record group (RG# 37)