United Medical Center

The D.C. Council voted to start defunding Washington’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River — a hospital the city owns and pumps millions of dollars in subsidies into annually.

D.C. lawmakers voted Tuesday to close the District’s only public hospital within four years, ending six decades of turbulent history at the only full-service hospital in the low-income and predominantly African American neighborhoods east…

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…

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. …

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.

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…

Few dispute that D.C. needs a new hospital east of the Anacostia River. But the deal to build that hospital and have George Washington University Hospital run it has attracted critics - including George Washington University.