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Surveys focused on the health needs and priorities for people living in Central Virginia are being collected once again by Centra Health to help steer community efforts to improve resident health, especially among more vulnerable populations. The Community Health Needs Assessment is something required of Centra every three years as a tax-exempt hospital system. It entails survey-based data collection from Centra’s catchment region — divvied into three parts that focus on the Lynchb...

Lynchburg residents seeking greater acknowledgement of local activists and civil rights leaders will have a voice at an upcoming public hearing, slated to discuss the often divisive issue of formally renaming 5th Street and to consider other options to promote equity in the city. Lynchburg City Council revived the decades-old conversation at its Tuesday meeting, reviewing the official street renaming process and discussing the potential to formally rename 5th Street to “Martin Luther King,...

Around the Lynchburg region, nearly 70 businesses, nonprofits and cultural organizations have received a combined $3 million in Rebuild VA economic recovery grants since Gov. Ralph Northam kicked off the program last year. Christina Delzingaro, CEO of the Community Access Network and the Free Clinic of Central Virginia, said like many nonprofits, Lynchburg’s Free Clinic relies on special events to fund its services, but during the pandemic, it was unable to hold its annual Loft Tour or its...

Lynchburg-area health care providers are laying out plans to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccines to front-line essential workers and anyone age 65 and older as state health officials look to ramp up the slow-moving rollout. The Central Virginia Health District, which includes Lynchburg and the neighboring counties, has not yet moved into the next phase of the state’s vaccine distribution plan as some regions in the state did this week. Local officials are still working to vaccinate health...

As Lynchburg-area officials plan out COVID-19 immunizations for different sectors of the community, a number of health care workers remain unvaccinated by choice. It’s been almost a month since the first round of vaccination doses arrived in Lynchburg, intended for health workers, nursing home workers and nursing home residents. Since then, multiple sites have been inoculating those residents and workers: front-line emergency workers first, followed by others in health professions. Workers...