Title: Health Policy Council (Wis.): Advisory Comprehensive Health Planning Council Records
Inclusive Dates: 1968-1971

Creator:

• Health Policy Council (Wis.)

Call Number: Series 2217

Quantity: 1.2. c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Records of an advisory committee appointed by Governor Knowles in 1968 to advise the Bureau of Comprehensive Health Planning of the Department of Health and Social Services on comprehensive health planning matters. In 1971 the council's functions were assumed by the Health Policy and Program Council, which in turn was replaced in 1973 by the Health Policy Council. Included are minutes of the council and its six subcommittees and other meeting materials, recommendations, and information about members.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02217

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In 1946 the federal government passed the first specialized categorical program to aid health care, the Hill-Burton program for hospital related facilities; in subsequent years additional programs for mental health, developmental disabilities, alcoholism, and drug abuse were also funded. Each of these programs required that state governors designate a state agency to implement the federal legislation and that an annual state plan be prepared. The majority of the categorical programs also required the establishment of an advisory council.

In 1966 the federal government passed the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Act which required that a single agency in each state be designated in order that health planning could become more comprehensive. As a result, in 1967 the Division of Health in DHSS and its newly-created Office of Comprehensive Health Planning was designated as the state agency to implement comprehensive health planning legislation (the “A” agency). At the same time Governor Knowles created the Advisory Comprehensive Health Planning Council to advise the agency on its health planning activities.

The council included representatives from state agencies, local agencies, and non-governmental organizations concerned with health care. Because the categorical advisory structure remained intact, the council also included representatives of these programs. The council was organized into six technical subcommittees (Environmental Health, Health Data, Health Facilities, Health Manpower, and Organization and Administration of Local Public Health Services).

In order to avoid duplication, the work of this committee was halted when Governor Lucey created the Governor's Health Policy and Planning Task Force and the Health Policy and Program Council in 1971. At this time HPPC formally assumed the advisory function of individual categorical program councils.

The records of the Advisory Council arrived in the Archives mixed with records of the Governor's Health Policy and Planning Task Force. After separation according to their different origins, the council records were arranged as an alphabetical subject file. Within the category of subcommittee records the records are arranged alphabetically by name. The records consist of minutes and other meeting materials of the council itself, its executive and steering committees, and its six technical subcommittees; information about the members of the council, their suggestions for priorities; and miscellaneous memoranda and mailings.

Box   1 Folder   1-14	Council meetings, 1968-1971
Box   1 Folder   15	Executive Committee, 1970-1971
Box   1 Folder   16	General material, 1968-1971
Box   1 Folder   17	Mailings to Council members, 1968-1971
	Members
Box   2 Folder   1	Appointment
Box   2 Folder   2-3	Biographical data and lists
Box   2 Folder   4	Priority suggestions
Box   2 Folder   5	Recommendations of the Council
Box   2 Folder   6	Steering Committee, 1968-1971
	Subcommittees
Box   2 Folder   7	General material
Box   2 Folder   8	Chairmen's meetings
	Environmental Health Subcommittee
Box   2 Folder   9	Minutes
Box   2 Folder   10	General material
	Health Data Subcommittee
Box   2 Folder   11	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   1	General material
	Health Facilities Subcommittee
Box   3 Folder   2	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   3	General material
	Health Manpower Subcommittee
Box   3 Folder   4	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   5	General material
	Health Services and Needs Subcommittee
Box   3 Folder   6	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   7	General material
	Organization and Administration Subcommittee
Box   3 Folder   8	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   9	General material