Retirement Events To Honor CEO of HR Community Health Center

A new location open house, retirement reception, and portrait unveiling and wall-hanging are being planned to honor the retirement of Hampton Roads Community Health Center’s longtime CEO, Barbara L. Willis.Willis is retiring after more than 20 years of leadership at the community health center which provides primary healthcare, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, internal medicine, integrated behavioral health and comprehensive dental care.Since Willis assumed the helm in 2003, the organization has grown from one location in Portsmouth to five locations in Portsmouth and Norfolk, a dental mobile unit, one medical/dental mobile unit and an in-house pharmacy. HRCHC now also employs more than 100 employees including board-certified physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical, executive and administrative support who serve residents of the Hampton Roads region and beyond.