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Veterinary Board of Governors
Board Member Names and Term Expiration Dates
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Name
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Appointment
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Expiration
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| William Keatts, D.V.M. |
05-05-2006 |
12-24-2010 |
| Willard Nelson, D.V.M. |
12-19-2003 |
12-24-2007 |
| Carmen L. Czachor |
05-28-2008 |
12-24-2011 |
| Holly Bard, Public Member |
09-25-2006 |
12-24-2009 |
| Harmon Rogers, DVM, Chair |
02-21-2007 |
12-24-2011 |
| Timothy Gintz, DVM |
07-17-2007 |
12-24-2012 |
| Deborah Cofer, LVT |
10-22-2007 |
12-24-2012 |
Description
The mandate of the Veterinary Board of Governors
is to protect the public’s and animals’ health and safety and to
promote the welfare of the state by regulating the competency and
quality of professional health care providers under their jurisdiction.
The Board accomplishes this mandate through a variety of activities in
collaboration with the Department of Health, Health Professions Quality Assurance.
Board duties include:
- Establishing qualifications for minimal competency to grant
or deny licensure of veterinarians, veterinary technicians,
and veterinary medication clerks.
- Regulating the competency and quality of professional health
care providers under its jurisdiction by establishing, monitoring,
and enforcing qualifications for licensure
- Developing rules, policies, and procedures that promote the
delivery of quality health care to the residents of the state.
- Ensuring consistent standards of practice
- Investigating complaints against veterinarians,
veterinary technicians and veterinary medication clerks.
- Assessing, investigating and making recommendations related to
complaints against practitioners which may range from a Notice of
Correction to a Revocation of licensure.
- Serving as reviewing members on disciplinary cases and serving
on disciplinary hearing panels.
- Serving as members of standing committees, when appointed.
- Establishing and monitoring compliance with continuing education requirements
Qualifications
The Veterinary Board of Governors is made up of five licensed veterinarians,
one licensed veterinary technician, and one public member, all appointed
by the Governor. The licensed veterinary members must be residents of
the state in active practice as licensed practitioners of veterinary medicine,
surgery, and dentistry and must be citizens of the United States.
Not more than one licensed veterinary member shall be from the same
congressional district. The licensed veterinary technician must be trained in
both large and small animal medicine. The licensed veterinary technician member
is a nonvoting member with respect to board decisions related to the discipline
of a veterinarian involving standard of care.
Public member representatives may not:
- Be a member of any other health care licensing board or commission;
- Have a fiduciary obligation to a facility rendering health care services;
- Have a financial interest in the rendering of health services.
Board Participation Expectation Guidelines
The following expectation guidelines are intended to serve as a reference
for current members and for prospective appointees of the Board:
- Attend regular Board meetings, scheduled six times per year
during business hours, typically on Mondays. Meeting schedules are
set each year in December. There is an annual Department of Health
one-day Board, Commission, Committee conference...
- Participate in telephonic conferences to consider disciplinary
cases. These take approximately one hour and are scheduled twice
each month. Not every board member would participate in every call.
- Participate in Settlement Conferences with respondent’s attorney,
staff attorney and/or board. The call is held at the convenience of
the reviewing board member and can take several hours. The number held
each year depends on the number of cases charged for that board member.
- Participate on hearing panels from 1 day to several days once
each year. Hearings may be held in the respondent's practice area
to accommodate witnesses. A panel of three board members is
generally utilized to hear disciplinary cases. All board members
are not required to participate in every hearing.
- Prepare for all meetings by reading materials sent one to two weeks
in advance of the scheduled meeting date. The packets take an average
of two to four hours to read prior to each business meeting.
In addition, between eight-and-24 hours are spent reviewing complaint
files prior to each meeting.
- Assist newly appointed Board members as necessary.
Total Annual Time Commitment:
| Meetings/ Conferences |
4-6 days per year |
| Meeting Preparation |
2-4 hours per meeting (approximately 1 day per year) |
| Complaint file review |
1.5 hours per complaint assigned review and presentation. |
| Hearing Panels |
1 day per year |
Performance Guidelines-Newly Appointed Board Members
Attend an initial orientation about the Board presented by
Department of Health staff. This is approximately half a day
in length. Initial orientation outlines the legal authority of
the Board, the roles and responsibilities of Board members,
ethics, confidentiality, the legal liability of Board members
and the Department of Health, the organizational structure of
the Department of Health, roles and responsibilities of Department
of Health staff, roles and responsibilities of staff attorneys and
Assistant Attorneys General (AAGs), disciplinary processes,
rule-making and other issues.
Current Meeting Schedule
Regular Board business meetings are scheduled approximately every eight weeks.
Most meetings are held in Kent or Tumwater, Washington.
One or two meetings per year are usually held in Eastern Washington.
Website
The address for the Veterinary Board of Governors is:
Veterinary
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