LaQuandra Nesbitt
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High Maternal Mortality Rate Among Blacks Alarms D.C. Leaders
Black women are dying at higher rates than white women in the District when having babies and city leaders are…
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D.C. Health Dept. Takes Action Amid Measles Outbreak
The District has largely been spared from a measles outbreak sweeping across the U.S. that is sparking a verbal war…
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Emergency Legislation Halts Providence Hospital Closure
D.C. Council member Vincent C. Gray pondered over the news he'd heard earlier this summer when Providence Hospital announced plans…
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Summit’s Focus: High Mortality Rates of Black Mothers, Infants
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, just four months into parenthood with the adoption of a newborn named Miranda Elizabeth, welcomed six…
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Providence Health System to Realign Services for Optimum Preventative Patient Care
In a move that repositions patient care from acute to preventative and community-based, Providence Health System announced today a transformation…
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Fate of Obstetrics at UMC in Limbo
The 90-day license restriction imposed on obstetric services at United Medical Center nears its end, but the future of obstetric…
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Closed: United Medical Center’s Obstetrics Ward
The D.C Department of Health issued a notice to United Medical Center in Southeast that required it to stop delivery…
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D.C. Sees Continued Decline in New HIV Cases
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released the city's HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Tuberculosis Administration annual report and highlighted the…
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D.C.-Area Officials Respond to Opioid Crisis
In a follow-up to their first regional meeting in October where they signed the National Capital Region Compact to Combat…
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