California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development

Healthcare Workforce Development Division

California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission(CHWPC)

The Health Care Workforce Training Act originally called for the appointment of a ten-member California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission. Recent amendments to increase the nurse workforce has increased the membership to fifteen. The Commission is composed of the following members:

Governor′s Appointments

• Rosslynn Byous, DPA, PA-C
  Representing trainees of a Primary Care Physician Assistant Program
• Elizabeth Dolezal, Chair
  Representing the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
• William Henning, D.O.
  Representing Private Medical Schools
• Cathryn L. Nation, M.D.
  Representing University of California Medical Schools
• Tracey Norton, D.O.
  Representing practicing Osteopathic Physicians
• Andrea Renwanz-Boyle, RN, NP, DNSc
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
• Deborah Rice, MN, RN-C, FNP, CCRN
  Representing practicing Family Nurse Practitioners
• Mario San Bartolome', Jr. M.D., MBA
  Representing practicing Family Physicians
• Ashby Wolfe, M.D., MPP, MPH
  Representing residents in Family Practice Training Programs

Assembly Speaker Appointments

• Angelica Millan, MSN, RNP
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
• John J. Troidl, Ph.D.
  Representing Consumers
• Vacant
  Representing Nursing Students

Senate Rules Committee Appointments

• Lauri A. Hoagland, FNP
  Representing practicing Registered Nurses
• V. Katherine Townsend, Ed.D., MSN
  Representing Nursing Students
• Bonnie Wheatley, Ed.D., MPH
  Representing Consumers

The Commission adopts standards to determine funding eligibility under the Song-Brown Act and establishes criteria to be used by OSHPD for executing contracts with training institutions. The Commission acts as the applications review panel and makes recommendations to OSHPD for the award of contracts at meetings held three times a year.

For meetings information, go to Public Meetings.

The Commission periodically reviews and designates priority geographic areas in California to address the maldistribution of healthcare services where unmet medical needs persist. This process has divided the state into roughly 541 Medical Service Study Areas (MSSA's) that allows more detailed and in-depth healthcare analysis.

For more information, contact:

Manuela Lachica, Song-Brown Program Director
(916) 326-3752
Manuela.Lachica@oshpd.ca.gov>