Want to feel healthier? Move to Chester County.

There’s a new national study that ranks health according to the county you live in, which is good news for those folks just to our west.
Chester County ranks No. 1.

The news is not so good here in Delaware County. We come in at No. 36 out of 67 counties in the state.

The latest study comes as news arrives that county officials are going over the results of a study they asked the folks at Johns Hopkins University over the merits of the county forming its own health department.

No doubt the results of the study done by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will add fuel to the controversy of what has long been a simmering issue here in the county.

Democrats, the League of Women Voters and others are long criticized the county for not having its own health department. Instead, the county operates a Department of Intercommunity Health.

Members of the all-Republican county council have consistently said a separate county health department would be too expensive.

Now all eyes will be on what exactly the Johns Hopkins study recommends.

Stay tuned.