Roughly 70% of all D.C. hospital employees have been fully vaccinated, the association said.
“The District of Columbia is blessed with a hospital workforce of over 30,000 individuals that provided and continue to provide compassionate and quality care throughout the pandemic,” said Jacqueline D. Bowens, President and CEO of the District of Columbia Hospital Association. “This consensus is a reiteration of our hospitals’ commitment to safety by keeping our staff, patients and visitors protected against COVID-19.”
Children s National Hospital said 75% of its employees are vaccinated and the remainder will have until Sept. 30 to be fully vaccinated. As a children’s hospital, we serve patients that range in age from newborns to young adults. Currently, the vaccine is not authorized for children under the age of 12, so this new requirement for our employees is an important and meaningful way to safeguard the health of the children whose care is entrusted to us, said Dr. K
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Beatrice Evans knocked on every door in her 100-unit apartment complex on B Street SE. As the president of the Triangle View Apartments tenant association, she is the ideal messenger to share information about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“You got people who want it, and then you got people, those hesitant people,” Evans, 67, says of her neighbors.
Nearly every Triangle View resident is Black. Those who are wary of getting vaccinated understand America’s history of medically mistreating Black people. In the 1930s, federal health officials recruited Black men, many of them poor, to participate in what is now known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The men were only treated with placebos despite a treatment being available and man
From All MedStar Health locations across the region have now changed their policy to allow a support person for patients with disabilities. Molly Riley, File/AP Photo
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MedStar Health is now allowing visitors and support persons for patients with disabilities into its hospitals and ambulatory locations throughout the region following a federal disabilities discrimination complaint.
Due to the pandemic, MedStar Washington Hospital staff was allegedly not allowing visitors or support persons for patients with disabilities, despite a stated policy that people with disabilities could bring in one support person. In September, William King, a 73-year-old with communication-related disabilities, his family, and Disability Rights DC attorneys filed a disabilities discrimination complaint against the health system with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Righ
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With few volunteers for vaccine, hospital CEO takes ‘one for the team
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Administrators at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., were thrilled to be among the city s first hospitals to get a COVID-19 vaccine, but they knew it could be a tough sell to get staffers to take the shot.
They were right.
The hospital, located on the campus of one the nation s oldest historically Black colleges, received 725 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech on Dec. 14 and expects 1,000 more vaccine doses this week to immunize its workers.
Yet, as of Friday afternoon, about 600 employees had signed up for the shots, touted as about 95% effective in preventing the deadly disease. Howard has about 1,900 employees, not counting hundreds of independent contractors it also hoped to vaccinate.