District of Columbia hospitals
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.
Safety-net systems in District of Columbia
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- Howard University Hospital
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
All 7 hospitals in District of Columbia
Children'S National Hospital
Washington
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington · MedStar Health
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Washington · MedStar Health
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Washington
United Medical Center
Washington
George Washington Univ Hospital
Washington
Howard University Hospital Corp
Washington
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Sliding-scale clinics
FQHCs in District of Columbia
Free and reduced-cost primary care that accepts Medicaid + uninsured patients.
Providers
Black-serving providers in District of Columbia
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Medicaid
District of Columbia Medicaid navigator
State program name, income limits, doula coverage, postpartum extension, how to apply.
Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- District of Columbia Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.dcha.org/).
- DC Health — Health Regulation and Licensing Administration — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://dchealth.dc.gov/service/health-regulation-and-licensing-administration).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
Data refreshed: