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D.C. officials unveil first-ever urgent care center in Ward 8

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October 7, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. EDT
From left, D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8); Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), George Washington University Hospital CEO Kimberly Russo; Ward 7 Democrats chair Wendell Felder and Ward 7 Council member Vincent C. Gray (D) cut the ribbon on the new Cedar Hill Urgent Care Center in Anacostia. (Michael Brice-Saddler/The Washington Post)
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D.C. officials on Friday unveiled the first-ever urgent care center to open in Ward 8, in an area of the city where residents have faced notable disparities in both access to health care and health outcomes.

The new Cedar Hill Urgent Care, located along the rapidly-growing Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE corridor in Anacostia, will open Monday and be available to residents from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week, officials said. It is owned and operated by Universal Health Services in partnership with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW Medical Faculty Associates.