Health Care

The D.C. Council threw its support behind speeding up the delivery of a new East End hospital by a year as the beleaguered United Medical Center struggles to stay afloat.

Faced with spiraling financial losses at the District’s only public hospital, D.C. lawmakers are considering a proposal that could dramatically scale back the hospital’s services and place the facility under a control board that would…

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.

Providence Health System has officially shut down the remainder of its acute-care services in Northeast D.C., ending a long battle to close its struggling hospital in the face of political and community opposition.

Many of the healthcare services people receive have shifted away from hospital campuses into community-based facilities, often adapting vacant retail spaces into primary care and urgent care centers.

It’s been 10 weeks since the birth of her third child, and Mercedez Milling-Robinson boasts an undeniable glow. Her freckled face, bright smile and bountiful afro show no hints of sadness or fear. On this go-round, Milling-Robinson’s…

An initiative to improve the health outcomes of Ward 7 and 8 residents seeks funds from the D.C. government to expand its work.

A pediatric medical research facility funded by a financial gift from the United Arab Emirates will open next year at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site in the District, officials announced Tuesday.

Children’s National Health System has teamed up with Johnson & Johnson’s innovation arm to launch an incubator on its new campus at the former Walter Reed Medical Center.

The closure will force patients to seek services elsewhere.

A new D.C. hospital scheduled to deliver on the city’s east end in 2023 needs to open earlier, according to Councilman Vincent Gray, D-Ward 7, following the release of the Bowser administration’s 2020 budget proposal.

The District’s only public hospital will require a $40 million taxpayer subsidy to stay afloat, city officials have determined, the latest and largest in a series of government bailouts for the struggling facility over the last several…

Providence Health System has received regulatory approval to continue offering primary care services on its Northeast D.C. campus.

Communities east of the Anacostia River will get their very first urgent care center later this year, after a D.C. regulatory agency finally granted the last bureaucratic approval the center needed to open its doors. Washington City Paper…

Advocates say the center is a major step forward in the fight for health equity, and long overdue.

District officials have dropped a lawsuit that sought to stop Providence Hospital from closing, removing the last major obstacle to plans by a nonprofit health-care chain to shut down most services at the Northeast Washington facility.

The city has dropped its lawsuit against Providence Hospital in Northeast and its parent company Ascension, according to the Washington Business Journal. A judge in D.C. Superior Court dismissed the suit earlier this month after the D.C.…

Providence Health System just took another step in its quest to transform its Northeast D.C. property into a health village, with the appointment of a new leader to spearhead its delivery.

A machine scans your body. A device sequences your DNA. Information populates the screen in front of you.