QUILCENE — The last of three community meetings on Jefferson County Public Health’s Community Health Improvement Plan is set for Wednesday.
The meeting will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Quilcene Community Center, 294952 U.S. Highway 101, Quilcene. November meetings were in Port Townsend and Port Hadlock.
The Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) program personnel will present the outcomes of a community health assessment that was conducted over the summer.
The assessment was conducted to understand current health needs of county residents, and to identify where and how health can be improved in Jefferson County.
“The community component of the health assessment, with surveys and community forums that reached out to people from Port Townsend to South County, added vital information that will be an integral part of the new Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP),” said John Nowak, co-executive director of CHIP.
“We want to share this data and these health priorities with the communities whose involvement helped us so much.”
CHIP is a collaboration between the City of Port Townsend, Jefferson Healthcare and Jefferson County to identify the most pressing health priorities for Jefferson County and actions that will lead to improvements.
The project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of an award totaling $200,000 with zero percentage financed with nongovernmental sources.
For more information, contact Bernadette Smyth at Public Health, 360-379-4478, bsmyth@co.jefferson.wa.us.
