Providence Hospital

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.

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

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.…

The District has dropped the lawsuit it filed in December against Providence Health System and its nonprofit parent, St. Louis-based Ascension Health, over the D.C. hospital's closure plans.

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.

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…

Providence Health System wants to bring an urgent care center to its Northeast D.C. campus, after rankling city officials with its efforts to close over the past several months and shutting down the majority of hospital services in…

D.C. once had plenty of accessible inpatient detox programs, but one by one, they have gradually been shut down. Now there is just one left. Since October 2017, the Psychiatric Institute of Washington (PIW), located in Tenleytown, has had…

Providence Health System has received conditional regulatory approval for its closure plan, pushing off the District's immediate efforts to block the Northeast D.C. hospital from shutting down.

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s attempt to stop the only hospital in Northeast D.C. from shutting down many of its services has hit a major roadblock. A judge denied the D.C. government’s request today for an injunction that would have immediately…

A D.C. Superior Court judge Thursday denied the District’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop Providence Hospital from shutting down most of its services.

A D.C. Superior Court judge has denied the District’s motion for an order to keep Providence Health System fully open, less than a week after the city sued the Northeast hospital for shutting down many of its services on Friday.

The D.C. government is suing Providence Health System, alleging the Northeast D.C. hospital violated the terms of its newly renewed license by scaling back many of its services Friday.

The District government filed suit Friday against management of Providence Hospital, saying its move to shutter most of its operations has violated the terms of its hospital license.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is taking Providence Hospital to court, according to a D.C. official familiar with the matter.

A group of Providence Hospital nurses and area residents say they’re worried the center’s impending closures will put services at a “dangerous level” for residents living in the eastern part of the District. Starting Friday, Providence will…

Providence Health System is taking steps to keep its emergency department and needed support services open through April.