Celebrating King County’s Inaugural 2025–2030 CHIP: Why Workforce Equity Is Health Equity
- CNS
- Dec 30, 2025
- 3 min read
King County just released its inaugural 2025–2030 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)—a community-built, five-year roadmap designed to strengthen health across our region by addressing the upstream conditions that shape outcomes long before someone ever needs urgent care. King County 2025-2030 CHIP
At Childress Nursing Services (CNS), we’re celebrating this milestone—and we’re proud to share that Childress Nursing Services is listed as a CHIP Implementation Partner under Income & Employment, Objective B: “By 2030, strengthen the workforce to make it easier to find a living wage job and build careers.” King County CHIP Community Partners list
What the King County CHIP is (and why it matters)
The CHIP was co-created by leaders representing 90+ organizations and multiple sectors, with a shared vision for a healthier King County. It outlines priorities, goals, and measurable actions—and intentionally reduces silos through cross-sector collaboration.
For 2025–2030, King County prioritized two major drivers of health:
Housing & homelessness
Income & employment
Because stability is health. When households have living-wage opportunities and support systems that hold, families are more likely to access preventive care, recover well, reduce stress, and build thriving futures.
Where CNS fits: building living-wage pathways in nursing (and keeping care local)
CNS exists to meet families where they are—with skilled, in-home nursing that supports fertility, maternity, postpartum recovery, and whole-family health. And we’re equally committed to meeting nurses where they are, too.
That’s why this CHIP partnership is meaningful to us. Our goal is to diversify and expand nursing employment opportunities for nurses from different ethnic, socioeconomic, educational, and training backgrounds—because a strong, representative workforce makes care more accessible and culturally responsive.
We’re also trailblazers in defining and building emerging nursing specialties:
Home Fertility Nurse
Family Home Nurse
By widening what “community-based nursing” can look like—and creating new opportunities for nurses to serve and support the communities where they live, work, and play—we’re committed to keeping both care and careers rooted locally.
Paying nurses well is community health work (full circle)
As part of our workforce commitment, Childress Nursing Services is dedicated to paying nurses in ways that support stability—not scarcity. We aim to keep compensation competitive and aligned with the reality that when nurses can confidently support their households, they also strengthen local businesses and community well-being.
To us, this is the full circle: stronger nursing careers → stronger households → stronger communities → better health outcomes.
If you are (or know of) a nurse looking to join an organization team with strong community leadership and commitment to helping you advance and grow, learn more about Childress Nursing Services' career opportunities at CNS Careers
Community Resources + Government + Philanthropic Partners: Join the Childress Nursing Services' Preferred Provider Network (CPPN)
The CHIP is a reminder that health is built through connected systems, not isolated services.
So, if you’re a community resource organization, government program, philanthropic partner, insurer, or essential initiative serving King County families, we’d love to explore partnership through our CNS Preferred Provider Network (CPPN).
What the CPPN is: A community-first partner network connecting families to trusted supports across fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, pediatrics, and whole-family health—plus essential products, community programs, insurance partners, and government health agencies. Childress Nursing Services (CNS)
✅ Join / learn more here: https://www.childressnursing.com/providers/preferred-provider-network
Get involved
King County invites community members and organizations who share the vision of a healthy King County to join this effort—by sharing the plan, mobilizing networks, and participating in collective action.
Share the CHNA report and the CHIP within your networks
Subscribe to updates through King County’s CHIP page
Join the effort: communityhealthimprovementplan@kingcounty.gov
We’re proud to stand with King County as this work moves from plan to action. With over 2 million residents in King County, Washington, health equity takes all of us!
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