DC Health Workforce (including published)

This is the landing page for a series of articles assessing various aspects of the healthcare system in Washington, D.C. The first four articles in the series can be accessed at the following links:

• Article outlining the basic descriptive facts/situation with respect to health care workers: 

  • COVID-era health care workforce capacity in Washington, D.C. 

• Article on inequalities in health care access, primarily along geographic and racial/ethnic lines: 

  • Inequalities in health care need and demand across the District 

• Article describing health care providers in Washington, D.C., including a comparison to other major metropolitan areas: 

  • Who is providing COVID-19 care in the Washington Metropolitan Area?

• Article on the pandemic-era increase in the number of D.C.-area health care providers: 

  • The number of licensed health care clinicians in Washington D.C. increased during the early pandemic period 

• Article on whether the District's health workforce resembles the key population on key demographic characteristics, and whether we can expect the workforce to be culturally competent based on these facts. [Work in progress.]

Map of Health Care Clinicians in the District of Columbia, August 2020