Immigrants and their advocates recall instances where hospitals and health centers failed to provide adequate language translation services.

Northam says the long onslaught of the pandemic has put a strain on doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who have “worked tirelessly for 22 months.”

“The impact on health care is currently greater than at any time in the pandemic,” the D.C. Hospital Association wrote in a letter to Mayor Bowser’s administration requesting more resources and flexibilities.

“This is not just the flu,” Hogan said. “More people have died from COVID19 than from annual car accidents, gun violence, and the flu combined.”

Representatives of the union representing the nursing staffs at several D.C. hospitals said their ranks are inadequate to handle the number of patients their facilities take in.

United Medical Center has been at the forefront of a legislative battle in recent weeks, as Mayor Vince Gray and the D.C. Council determine whether to privatize the financially-troubled hospital or keep it under city control. But the hospital itself is fighting a similarly-frustrating battle inside its walls: against bed bugs.

It was only a matter of time, really. The Post reports that the District has finally taken control of United Medical Center (UMC), purchasing the financially-struggling hospital at auction this morning for $20 million. The sale is just another chapter in the long, troubled history of the District’s largest hospital east of the Anacostia River. No other offers for the facility were made. The auction apparently took mere minutes at the Wilson Building this…

Last fall the D.C. Council approved spending $79 million to assist in the sale of the beleaguered Greater Southeast Community Hospital to Specialty Hospitals of America, and today, Specialty announced that they will give the hospital a new name and logo in an effort to break with the medical facility’s checkered past. The hospital’s staff are currently being asked to vote on a choice of three new names: Capitol Medical Center, Capitol Regional Medical Center…

Posted to the Metropolitan Police Department’s email lists this morning: an exciting volunteer opportunity!4 DC hospitals in Washington (Washington Hospital, Children’s, National Rehab and Veterans Affairs) are conducting an exercise involving a dirty bomb scenario and we will need about 100 victim volunteers. Please feel free to announce this volunteer opportunity through your network and ask that those interested in volunteering contact me prior to March 26. The volunteer duty would be on Friday, April…