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CHCs in the News : Washington Hospital Center Agrees to Partner with United Medical Center

Posted on 9/13/2010 (147 reads)

The region's largest private hospital has agreed to a deal in principle that could steer nearly 1,000 baby births - nearly a quarter of its annual total - to the D.C.-owned United Medical Center in Southeast, helping relieve crowding in its own obstetrics unit and boosting revenue at the underused facility.

Under the plan announced Thursday, the 926-bed Washington Hospital Center would provide staffing and management for UMC's birth unit, including up to nine of its physicians who currently practice either at WHC or the Unity Health Care primary-care clinics in the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.