East End Health Equity Act

The operations of D.C.’s only hospital east of North Capitol Street and the future of the new hospital that will replace it have again become a political flashpoint in the Wilson Building, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council member…

The D.C. Council’s health committee nixed a plan last Thursday that was supposed to expedite the construction of a new hospital in Ward 8.

D.C. residents east of the Anacostia River recently expressed their strong opinions on the proposed hospital that will be built on the campus of St. Elizabeths East campus.

George Washington University Hospital said Wednesday it will resume talks to work toward a definitive agreement with the District to operate a new hospital in Southeast — a major win for the project’s supporters who feared its departure…

Eric Goulet must have walked in and out of the D.C. Council chambers 20 times during the final legislative meeting of 2018. Clutched in his hand was the future of the District’s healthcare system for generations to come—or at least a piece…

The agreement with George Washington University Hospital to operate a new hospital in Southeast D.C. might not be dead.

A deal to build a new hospital east of the Anacostia River appeared to survive — at least temporarily — on Tuesday, as the D.C. Council approved a last-minute measure that proponents say will allow negotiations for the project to move…

The DC Council should reconsider the current plan for the East End hospital as it does not include provisions for Howard University’s doctors, residents and medical and other health professions’ students to provide services and training.

Two "poison pill" amendments to the deal to build a new hospital in Ward 8 have forced Councilmember Vince Gray to propose more changes that give greater consideration to Howard University's medical school.

GEORGE WASHINGTON University’s suspension of negotiations with the District to manage a new hospital in Southeast Washington may send the city back to the drawing board. That should be welcomed. Little thinking went into the politically…

George Washington University Hospital said that it “cannot and will not be involved” in a deal with D.C. to operate a planned new Southeast D.C. hospital unless D.C. Council removes two amendments from proposed legislation that would…

George Washington University Hospital—the Universal Healthcare Services-owned, 370-bed facility in Foggy Bottom—is really super committed to D.C.'s healthcare.

George Washington University Hospital has suspended negotiations with the District to build and run a new hospital east of the Anacostia River, telling city officials in a letter Wednesday that conditions placed on the deal this week by the…

George Washington University Hospital is expected to pull out of a tentative deal to run a new Southeast D.C. hospital because of new provisions backed Tuesday night by many D.C. Council members, according to a source familiar with the…

The end is near. The agenda for the D.C. Council’s penultimate legislative meeting last Tuesday included more than 100 items, from firearm safety to campaign finance reform to turnstile jumping to building a new hospital east of the…

Well, that was anticlimactic: Late in today's legislative meeting, Vince Gray moved to postpone a vote on his bill to Dec. 18, after a flurry of amendments appeared to blindside him.