Whitman-Walker Opens New Southeast D.C. Health Center
metroweekly.com“This is a big day, and we’re here with gratitude and anticipation,” said Naseema Shafi, CEO of Whitman-Walker Health, addressing an audience of several hundred people at a ribbon-cutting for its brand new Southeast D.C.
health center on Monday.Rows of chairs, with a rainbow-colored fan nestled on each seat, were spread across a lawn, dotted with wooden tables shaded by large umbrellas, facing the east side of the health care center.
Three food trucks stood perched on a gravel pathway behind the lawn, their operators eagerly awaiting the potential customers that would eventually come as employees slowly began to trickle out of the building for their lunch breaks.
Named after the late journalist Max Robinson, Jr. — the first Black co-anchor of a national nightly television news broadcast –- Whitman-Walker Health’s new Max Robinson Center, located on the St.
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