The mission of the
Health Practitioners' Intervention Program
is to help ensure the safety of the citizens of Virginia by providing monitoring services to impaired health care practitioners and to assist practitioners in the recovery process.

Since January 1, 1998, The Virginia Department of Health Professions has conducted the Health Practitioners' Intervention Program as an alternative and adjunct to disciplinary action for its' licensees. DHP has contracted with VCU Health System Department of Psychiatry, Division of Addiction Psychiatry to provide intake, assessment, treatment planning, treatment referral, and monitoring services to impaired health practitioners.

(Established by the 1997 General Assembly Title 54.1, Chapter 25.1 of the
Code of Virginia)