The urgent care center will open Monday in an area of the city where residents have faced notable disparities in both access to health care and health outcomes.
facility, based in Ward 7. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said the city is scoping out locations for a second urgent care center as part of that larger project — which will also include an ambulatory center with physicians’ offices — that is also aimed at providing more robust health care services to communities east of the Anacostia River.Bowser estimated that the new urgent care center in Ward 8 will serve 9,000 residents per year.
“Patients can get X-rays and bloodwork; this is the place to go if you’re not feeling well,” Bowser added. “This urgent care center is what the community asked for.”, said that the urgent care center will accept all insurances “and will not turn anyone away” if they are uninsured. Much of the urgent care center’s staff, including practitioners and physicians, will be provided by GW Medical Faculty Associates and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, GW Health is expected to open in early 2025, replacing the United Medical Center, which for decades was beset by“We’re creating a true health care system on the District’s east end for the first time ever,” said D.C. Council member Vincent C. Gray .
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