Posts tagged Health Care
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Breakfast links: Barry Farm redevelopment to start construction on first new building
Barry Farm redevelopment to start construction in September. Metro safety drill in Ashburn delayed due to rust on tracks. Baltimore protest to address homelessness crisis comes to City Hall. Keep reading…
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I visited DC’s only public hospital during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what happened.
On March 9, I learned that my grandmother had been rushed to the emergency room at DC’s last remaining public hospital, United Medical Center. After ensuring that she was in stable condition, the instinct of my family and I—against the backdrop of a fast-spreading pandemic—was to get her to one of the city’s private hospitals several miles away from her home. Keep reading…
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Small-scale clinics bridge the gap in health care east of the Anacostia
Painted in bold shades of blue, red, green and pink, Whitman-Walker Health’s Max Robinson Center has stood prominently in the historic Anacostia neighborhood, just a few blocks from the Big Chair, since the early 1990s. It was opened to fill a gap in HIV services in Southeast DC, after having already provided such treatments in Northwest, according to Medical Director Colleen Lane. Keep reading…
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National links: 25 years later, the ‘chunnel’ has transformed travel in Europe
On its 25th birthday, here's a look at how the “chunnel” changed Europe. First-time homebuyers in Houston are competing with algorith-armed hedge funds. Da Vinci was proposing mixed-use development and other modern planning practices 500 years ahead of his time. Keep reading…
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Health outcomes vary widely across the region. How do people in your neighborhood fare?
Despite the amount of wealth and power that exist in the Washington region, the benefits of living in the area do not extend equally to all its residents. DC and the surrounding suburbs have positive health outcomes well above the national average, but when you look closer at the data, there stark differences from neighborhood to neighborhood. Keep reading…
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National links: Homeowners of all political persuasions are NIMBY
NIMBYism is closely tied with homeownership, but political affiliation, not so much. The future of memory care is “cities” for people with dementia, rather than dreary nursing homes. Mesa, Arizona is getting self-driving grocery delivery pod cars this fall. Keep reading…
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A new short documentary highlights the dire consequences of DC’s maternal care desert
The result of hospital closures in DC is a maternal care desert for women who live east of the Anacostia, who now have to trek half an hour by car or more (and further by transit) to access a maternity ward and prenatal care. A new seven-minute documentary from The Atlantic highlights the deadly, discriminatory consequences of these closures. Keep reading…
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George Washington University Hospital wants a helipad. Here’s why they should get it.
George Washington University Hospital wants a helipad. A local ANC representative says letting them have one could save lives. Keep reading…
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Compare life expectancies in places across the country with this interactive map
Life expectancies in Washington, DC, and several other major cities along the eastern seaboard are lower than those in the surrounding counties. You can see this in new interactive maps showing mortality rates and life expectancies in every county across the US. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new state of… Washington, DC
Statehood rebranded; Redlining resurfaces; What Wiedefeld wants; No love for Purple; Check your registration; To live and die in DC; Improper club improperly zoned; Passing the self-driving test; Snapshot of transportation futures. Keep reading…