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Mayor's Commitment to a
Healthy District of Columbia
The Mayor is committed to:
- Health care as a right.
- Eliminating health disparities.
- Developing a quality-based, efficient public health safety net.
- Ensuring that every man, woman and child has access to quality health care regardless of
their ability to pay.
- Providing a neighborhood-based primary care home for each District of Columbia resident.
- Ensuring that everyone has access to quality health care regardless of race, class,
gender or sexual orientation.
- Encouraging public/private partnerships.
- Expanding health insurance coverage.
- Making the District of Columbia the healthiest city in America.
Quality health care speaks all languages, knows no boundaries and respects all
cultures. Quality health care begins with you.
Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of the District of Columbia, February 20, 2001
Ivan C.A. Walks, MD, Chief Health Officer for the District of Columbia Director,
Department of Health, February 20, 2001
PARTNER AND PLAN BACKGROUND
Who Are the Players Who Make This Happen?
- Greater Southeast Community Hospital is the largest employer East of the River. And it
will grow.
- Chartered Health Plan is an African-American owned firm, based in the District, that has
provided health care to tens of thousands of District residents
- We anticipate that the Non Profit Clinic Consortium and Primary Care Association will
also be involved in this new health care network and we are pleased that they are willing
to partner in bringing their years of service to the community in this effort.
Plan Details
- The proposal submitted by the DC-Washington Alliance for Community Healthcare will
greatly expand the extent and choices of health care for the uninsured and others:
- Nearly 1,000 health care providers - including DC Chartered Health Plan's network -
working in coordination with the city's private nonprofit clinics and hospitals;
- An increased number of primary care and specialty care sites in the communities of Wards
S, 6, 7, and 8 - resulting in over 87 healthcare delivery sites;
- Maintaining the six current public clinics and adding up to 17 additional primary care
sites;
- Providing inpatient care at Greater Southeast Community Hospital and through DC
Chartered contracted hospitals
- Providing 24-hour urgent care and primary care on the grounds of DC General Hospital;
- Providing 24-hour full service emergency room services at Greater Southeast
- Expanding urgent care services at Hadley
- And expanding urgent care hours at Greater Southeast
HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM COMPARISON
| QUALITY HEALTH SYSTEM FOR DISTRICT RESIDENTS |
CURRENT PBC SYSTEM |
NEW SYSTEM
DC-WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH |
| Primary Care |
- Six community health centers
- Ambulatory care center at DC General Hospital
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- Hundreds of providers in every quadrant of the District, including Chartered's network
- Six existing community health centers and new sites
- Increased primary and specialty care in Wards 5, 6, 7, and 8
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| Inpatient Care |
- DC General Hospital
- Other hospitals provide largely emergency-initiated inpatient care
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- Greater Southeast Community Hospital
- Chartered contracted hospitals
- All District hospitals maintain current levels of uncompensated care
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| Outpatient, Specialty & Diagnostic Care |
- DC General Hospital
- Catholic Charities and need-based arrangements with other hospitals for care DC General
can not provide
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- Greater Southeast Community Hospital
- Chartered-contracted hospitals
- Contracted laboratories and specialty centers
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| Emergency, Trauma, & Urgent Care |
- DC General emergency and trauma
- Other District hospitals for emergency care
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- 24-hour urgent care at current DCGH site
- 24-hour emergency and trauma care at Greater Southeast Hospital
- Extended urgent care at other sites
- Other District hospitals maintain current levels of uncompensated emergency care
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| Insurance |
- More than 65,000 District residents uninsured
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- All customers of new system will become members of the DC-Washington Alliance
- Information gained will be used to advance phased-in Medicaid coverage expansion.
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District of Columbia Health Status Indicators
| Indicators |
United States
1998 |
District of Columbia
1998 |
District of Columbia
Proposed
2003 |
Deaths from Heart Disease
Rate |
268.2 |
291.1 |
189.15 |
Deaths from HIV/AIDS
Rate |
5.0 |
47.0 |
25.0 |
Deaths from Diabetes
Rate |
24.0 |
37.3 |
22.3 |
Source: DC Department of Health rates per 100, 000 population |
