Cabell-Huntington Health Department rolls out new Community Health Improvement Plan [Video]

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – The Cabell-Huntington Health Department met Wednesday to approve a new initiative known as the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

“It is a plan the health department worked out along with many community stakeholders and partners who advised us on strategies that can be used to achieve the goals of better health for our community that we’ve laid out,” said Chief Executive Officer Dr. Michael Kilkenny.

Kilkenny says through research, they have found four major objectives they’d like to focus on in the next five years of this plan.

“Community resilience around substance abuse and mental health, equitable life expectancy and a healthy built environment,” Kilkenny said.

Researchers went over each of these objectives, figured out what’s needed to improve them and what resources already exist that could be used for improvement. And it doesn’t stop at the plan.

“We’re going to do interval evaluations and our …