District of Columbia hospitals: racial-equity scorecards

7 Medicare-certified hospitals serve District of Columbia, represented by the District of Columbia Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.

DC's maternal mortality ratio is among the highest for major US cities; District-funded doula programs launched 2023 route Medicaid enrollees to Howard and MedStar delivery sites. Howard University Hospital is the country's oldest historically Black teaching hospital.

The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Howard University Hospital, and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Each has its own detail page below.

Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.