West Virginia Code 18B-16-9 – Accountability; reports and audit required
(a) The vice chancellor, with the assistance of the advisory panel, shall report in detail to the board of trustees on the expenditure and planned expenditure of public funds to the schools of medicine under section eight of this article. The board of trustees shall report to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates annually prior to December 1, as a part of the higher education report cards required by section eight-a, article one of this chapter.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 18B-16-9
- Allied health care: means health care other than that provided by physicians, nurses, dentists and mid-level providers and includes, but is not limited to, care provided by clinical laboratory personnel, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, medical records personnel, dietetic personnel, radiologic personnel, speech-language-hearing personnel and dental hygienists. See West Virginia Code 18B-16-3
- Chancellor: means the Chancellor for Higher Education where the context refers to a function of the Higher Education Policy Commission. See West Virginia Code 18B-1-2
- commission: means the commission created by §. See West Virginia Code 18B-1-2
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- panel: means the West Virginia rural health advisory panel created under section six of this article. See West Virginia Code 18B-16-3
- Schools of medicine: means the West Virginia University school of medicine, which is the school of health sciences. See West Virginia Code 18B-16-3
- State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
- Vice chancellor: means the vice chancellor for health sciences provided for under section six, article two of this chapter. See West Virginia Code 18B-16-3
(b) The vice chancellor, with the guidance and recommendations of the advisory panel, shall develop additional performance indicators, including, but not limited to: (1) An analysis of the health care needs of the targeted areas; (2) the number of persons served and the nature of the services provided; (3) the number of full-time and part-time faculty, students, interns and residents, by discipline, participating in the health science and allied health care education programs; (4) the number of health providers in each community served by primary health care education sites; (5) the financial, social and health status changes in each community served by primary health care education sites; and (6) the extent to which the plans and policies of the office of rural health and the health care planning commission are being effectuated. The vice chancellor shall provide information on the performance indicators to the board of trustees for inclusion in the higher education accountability report card for health sciences provided for in section eight-a, article one of this chapter.
(c) The advisory panel shall report at least annually to the joint Legislative Oversight commission on education accountability created under section eleven, article three-a, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code and to the area health education centers subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance regarding the status of the rural health care initiative, paying particular attention to the role of the communities.
(d) The vice chancellor shall report at least annually to the joint Legislative Oversight commission on education accountability created under section eleven, article three-a, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code and to the area health education centers subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance regarding the status of the rural health care initiative, paying particular attention to the role of the schools of medicine.
(e) The board of trustees shall facilitate a meeting at least quarterly for the chief administrators of each primary health care education site established pursuant to this article and each chief administrator at other rural health care facilities providing educational and clinical experiences to students, interns and residents at the state's schools of medicine. The meetings shall commence no later than July 1, 1992, and shall be for the purpose of discussing the status, efficiency and effectiveness of the various programs and their operation and recommending any changes to the board of trustees, which may include statutory recommendations to be made to the Legislature.
In addition to the reports otherwise required and commencing with a report for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1991, the chief administrators shall submit to the board of trustees an annual evaluation of the extent to which the goals set forth in section four of this article and other goals relating to collaborative efforts between the schools of medicine and rural health care facilities are being attained. Such report shall be forwarded annually in its entirety to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates no later than January 15, .
(f) The Legislative Auditor, at the direction of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, shall perform on an ongoing basis a fiscal audit of the medical education components within the university of West Virginia system, the state college system and the rural health initiative for periodic review by the Legislature.