Chesterfield Health District presents CHIP, urges county action on clinics, Head Start, evictions and referrals

The Chesterfield Health District on Tuesday presented the Community Health Improvement Plan to the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, outlining four priority recommendations aimed at improving access to care, early childhood supports, housing stability and social‑needs coordination across the county.

Dr. Alex Samuel, health director of the Chesterfield Health District at the Virginia Department of Health, opened the presentation and introduced the staff who led the plan. "I'm the health director of the Chesterfield Health District, part of the Virginia Department of Health," Samuel said as he introduced Janice Smith and Jesse Brennan, who presented the findings.

The plan, which staff said is the product of a roughly year‑long CHIP process following a 2023 community health assessment, combined public secondary data with 21 individual resident interviews, focus groups with 83 participants and more than 2,000 resident surveys. Janice Smith, Chesterfield Health…