MedStar Washington Hospital Center

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 overdose patients end up in hospital emergency rooms, but before this week in D.C., they couldn’t get treatment for their addiction. Instead, hospitals would refer patients to treatment programs outside of the hospital.

Three D.C. hospitals have launched programs providing medication-assisted addiction treatment to recent overdose victims in emergency rooms, a key component in the District’s plan to reduce overdose deaths by half by the end of next year. …

When Providence Health System announced plans to shut down its acute-care hospital at the end of 2018, neighboring D.C. hospitals expected to feel that impact. Now MedStar Washington Hospital Center, in its first attempt to quantify the…