D.C. General Hospital Closes its Doors

July 2, 2001 D.C. General Hospital Closes its Doors D.C. General Hospital, a facility long embraced by the poor and uninsured, closed its doors on June 25, 2001. The closing ends years of heated, impassioned controversy and debate. Proponents of the closing cited poor hospital management and high cost to the city’s taxpayers while others cried that the city’s indigent and uninsured, and particularly the African American community, would have no place to go. More than a dozen outpatient departments will remain open, and a satellite emergency room will be staffed around the clock, but inpatient . . .