Whitman-Walker is expanding its footprint in Southeast D.C., a medically underserved portion of the District.
Fifty years ago, the clinic that would become Whitman-Walker Health cared for gay men underground, in a Georgetown church basement. Appointment reminders were delivered discreetly as services shifted to anonymous gray buildings that blended into the cityscape.Today, the Southeast D.C. location is a bright blue, green and pink house on Martin Luther King Jr.
Whitman-Walker takes private and public insurance such as Medicaid and Medicare and offers a sliding payment scale. Of the nearly 17,000 patients seen by Whitman-Walker providers last year, three-quarters went to 14th Street, while about 1 in 5 — 3,500 patients — went to the Max Robinson Center, said Rachel McLaughlin, Whitman-Walker’s vice president of population health and quality.The new building sits in stark contrast to the well-loved and well-worn current center, which was retrofitted again and again since its opening in 1993 to accommodate evolving services and treatments.
The new center is part of the overall redevelopment of the St. Elizabeth’s East campus, including the “OK, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to transfer over one-to-one,” said Ward, who is the Ward 8 representative on the D.C. Commission on Health Equity. “Take the humility that came with that work and recognize when you don’t know something. It’s about literally partnering with groups at the forefront of this work.”
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