Which Hospital Actually Serves Your Richmond 55+ Community?

CrossRidge, the metro’s largest 55+ community at 746 homes, sits in Glen Allen — within easy reach of both hospitals, and roughly 20–30 minutes from VCU Medical Center downtown for anything requiring the region’s Level I trauma center or academic specialists. Smaller Henrico communities (Settler’s Ridge in Varina, Tinsley Charter, Villas at Hunton Park and Villas at Virginia Center in Glen Allen) fall into the same corridor, though exact drive times shift depending on which side of the county you’re on.

Chesterfield has the highest tax rate in the metro, but it also has the densest cluster of 55+ inventory — Traditions of America, Villas at Swift Creek, Villas at Iron Mill, Woolridge Landing, Lake Margaret, Harpers Mill 55+, and several others. Nearly all of them sit within a 10–20 minute drive of Chippenham/Johnston-Willis or St. Francis, and Braxton, closer to the city line, is within about 15 minutes of multiple hospital systems.

Chickahominy Falls, Virginia’s only 55+ agrihood, and the smaller Hanover communities (Villas at Rose Hill in Mechanicsville, Hickory Grove in Ashland, Cottage Green) all sit closest to Memorial Regional. For higher-acuity or specialist care beyond what a community hospital offers, Hanover residents typically drive into the Henrico/Richmond corridor — Henrico Doctors’, St. Mary’s, or VCU Medical Center — which generally runs 20–30 minutes depending on where in the county you start.

Colonial Heritage sits genuinely between two metros, and that shapes its healthcare picture more than any other community in this guide. For routine and emergency care, Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg is the closer option to the east. For higher-acuity, trauma, or academic specialist care, Richmond’s larger systems — particularly VCU Medical Center’s Level I trauma center — remain the primary regional referral point, and that’s a 25–35 minute drive west along I-64. Some residents also look toward Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News for a larger Riverside-system hospital further east. The honest takeaway: Colonial Heritage buyers should not assume either direction by default — confirm which systems your existing physicians are affiliated with, and whether your Medicare plan’s network favors the Richmond side or the Williamsburg side, before you rely on either as your default.

Goochland County has the lowest property tax rate in the metro, and it also has no major hospital of its own — Mosaic at West Creek residents rely on the same Henrico-based hospitals that serve CrossRidge and the rest of western Henrico, via the West Broad Street / Route 288 corridor. That’s a genuine trade-off worth naming: the tax savings come with a slightly longer drive to a hospital than communities that sit inside Henrico itself.