The hospital, which is slated to open in December of 2024, is D.C.’s second public project to be named after Frederick Douglass.

The D.C. Council rejected a proposal that would have injected more funds into the struggling Ward 8 hospital without triggering additional oversight.

Over the next several days, 250 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will be provided to those who have been on the frontlines at D.C.’s United Medical Center.

Five ICU patients have been transferred to other D.C. hospitals.

Residents of the United Medical Center facility were hurriedly transferred elsewhere two months ago. Now, those moves will be permanent.

“We’re talking about closing somebody’s house, packing them up and taking them to a new house,” one advocate said.

Meiko Brown told The Washington Post she was unaware of her father’s passing on July 26 until she went to visit him on August 2.

Women who planned on delivering babies at United Medical Center in the next 90 days will have to make new arrangements.

It happened on Sunday at United Medical Center.

Now fifty years old, the building is “approaching obsolescence,” the administration said.