Whitman-Walker Clinic Will Expand Medical Care

January 11, 2008 - 7:38am

WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. area's largest provider of HIV-AIDS services says it will be expanding medical care.

It's part of the Whitman-Walker Clinic's move to become a comprehensive health center. The clinic will also refocus its social service programs to better support patients' health needs, and reassign or cut up to a fourth of the 240-person staff.

At the same time, Whitman-Walker will start a public awareness campaign aimed at groups hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic.

The clinic is remaking itself and hoping to draw more patients as it recovers from a budget crisis that forced deep cuts and layoffs in 2005.

The clinic lost about $300,000 last year. That's a fraction of the $950,000 deficit it ran two years ago, but it's still not enough progress for the clinic's leaders to call it financially viable.

Information from: The Washington Post

WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. area's largest provider of HIV-AIDS services says it will be expanding medical care.

At the same time, Whitman-Walker will start a public awareness campaign aimed at groups hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic.

The clinic is remaking itself and hoping to draw more patients as it recovers from a budget crisis that forced deep cuts and layoffs in 2005.

The clinic lost about $300,000 last year. That's a fraction of the $950,000 deficit it ran two years ago, but it's still not enough progress for the clinic's leaders to call it financially viable.

Information from: The Washington Post

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