Washington County plans July 2025 ‘bridge’ Community Health Improvement Plan; seeks broader partner input

Washington County Public Health outlined a two-year plan on a recorded forum to update its Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), announcing an interim "bridge" CHIP to be released in July 2025 and a full CHIP scheduled for July 2026. The agency said the bridge plan will connect the county's 2020 CHIP with process improvements and partner feedback while the region's updated community health needs assessment is completed in October 2025.

The bridge CHIP is intended to reorganize committee leadership and participation, revise how the county distributes community grant funds, and create clearer goals and evaluation measures before the full CHIP is released. "A CHIP identifies priority issues about the health of the community and the people in the community, and identifies goals and strategies to address those issues," said Laura Daley, coordinator for the Community Health Improvement Plan, summarizing the plan's purpose.

Why it matters: The CHIP guides cross-sector public-health work in Washington County and is a requirement of national public health accreditation; the county said it wants the updated plan to center health equity and…