Hot off the press---join us for the 2024 LGBT Intergenerational Extravaganza! This free event focuses on building intergenerational relationships through film, discussions, workshops, and other creative means. Join us from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm on Sunday, September 22nd at the MLK Jr Library (901 G St NW). There are only a few spots left! Register by contacting [email protected] today! This event is a collaboration between Capitol Hill Village, the DC Department of Aging and Community Living, the DC Center for the LGBT Community, DMV Queers, Seabury Resources For Aging, and our team at Whitman-Walker. #weseeyou #washingtondcevents #lgbtaging #intergenerational #whitmanwalker
Whitman-Walker
Hospitals and Health Care
District of Columbia, Washington 3,663 followers
We empower all persons to live healthy, love openly, and achieve equality and inclusion.
About us
Our mission is to offer affirming community-based health and wellness services to all with a special expertise in LGBTQ and HIV care. We empower all persons to live healthy, love openly, and achieve equality and inclusion. Through multiple locations throughout DC, we provide stigma-free care to anyone who walks through our doors. We are proud and honored to be a place where the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, as well to those living with or affected by HIV feel supported, welcomed and respected. We strive to be a place where we see the person first; a healthcare home where you will be treated with the dignity, respect and love.
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http://www.whitman-walker.org
External link for Whitman-Walker
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- District of Columbia, Washington
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1978
- Specialties
- Primary medical care, HIV/AIDS care, behavioral health, addictions treatment, dental care, legal services, medical adherence, youth services, women's health, LGBTQ Health, substance use treatment, public benefits, insurance navigation, research, policy, education, pharmacy, and advocacy
Locations
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1201 Sycamore Drive SE
District of Columbia, Washington 20032, US
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1377 R St NW
Suite 200
Washington, District of Columbia 20009, US
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1525 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005, US
Employees at Whitman-Walker
Updates
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We're a month out from our annual Whitman-Walker Gala! Please join us at this fabulous evening, taking place at the Ritz-Carlton Washington DC on Wednesday, October 9th! The legendary Tim Gunn will once again be our Host, and the night will be filled with great food, music, a live auction, and of course some great stories about Whitman-Walker and our patients! And then, they'll even be Drag Queens and dancing! Get your tickets today at https://lnkd.in/eAQeKFsU #whitmanwalker #weseeyou #weneedyou
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#LGBTQ+ individuals, like all people, deserve comprehensive, accessible, high-quality health care delivered by practitioners and providers they can trust. Accurate and trustworthy #SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identify) data—along with other demographic data such as race, ethnicity and primary language—is the cornerstone of efforts to innovate and improve care delivery, identify and overcome barriers to equity, train service providers, evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and participate in research that improves both population health and individual patient outcomes. This brief - co-written by Whitman-Walker Institute's Executive Director Kellan E. Baker and its Director of Policy Caroline Medina, along with Whitman-Walker Health's Vice President of Access & Strategic Initiatives, Erin Loubier, in cooperation with NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) - discusses long-standing protections for patient or member data, including SOGI data, provided by HIPAA and a 2024 final rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services clarifying health care and health insurance nondiscrimination protections. #whitmanwalker #whitmanwalkerinstitute #NCQA https://lnkd.in/eespVRrj
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Researchers at Whitman-Walker Institute are presenting at this year's GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health. Their workshop, titled "Building Partnerships for Affirming SOGI Data Collection in Health Care Institutions", will provide policy and research insights about the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data to interprofessional care providers involved in LGBTQ+ health around the country. Kudos to Cory Benjamin Brooks. Caroline Medina, Jennafer Kwait, and Eleanor "Sarko" Sarkodie, MPH for leading this workshop! There's still time to register at: www.glma.org/conference. Save 25% with code: AC24ATTENDEE25 #WhitmanWalker #WhitmanWalkerInstitute #SOGI #LGBTQ
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The American Community Survey (ACS) is the premier source for information about our country’s changing population, households, and workforce – and a crucial component of American democracy. Efforts are underway at the U.S. Census Bureau to advance responsible and inclusive ACS data collection on underserved communities, including #LGBTQ+ populations. Ensuring that one of our nation’s most impactful surveys accurately reflects the full diversity of our population is critical to shed light on the needs and experiences of these communities, support the advancement of policies to achieve health equity, and better enforce civil rights laws. This blog post was co-written by Caroline Medina, Whitman-Walker Institute’s Director of Policy with Meeta Anand, Senior Director of Census & Data Equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. It details the importance of the ongoing efforts to advance data equity by making the ACS more inclusive of underserved communities. https://lnkd.in/eWRKE7jQ #whitmanwalker #whitmanwalkerinstitute #weseeyou #civilrightsorg #sogi #ACS #ACSAwarenessMonth #censuscounts
The American Community Survey: Efforts to Make Data Collection More Inclusive
https://civilrights.org
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For this special NBC News feature, reporter Emma C. Davis spent months working on this important story. She received assistance by Whitman-Walker Institute Director Dr. Kellan E. Baker who spoke candidly about how the rise in transgender health care bans is putting providers in the crosshairs. Kellan also connected her to many healthcare providers, all of whom went on the record to provide factual information that made this article possible. Excerpt: Twenty-six states now have restrictions on transgender health care for minors, according to the LGBTQ think tank Movement Advancement Project. The laws have left those still able to provide this type of care, like Dr. Kade Goepferd, struggling to keep up with demand. NBC News spoke to a dozen clinicians in states where gender-affirming care for minors remains legal, from Connecticut to California, and found all are treating transgender youths fleeing bans. Not only does the surge in out-of-state and newly relocated patients create logistical challenges — from waitlists to insurance denials — it also presents a legal risk for health care professionals. Although some states have enacted protections for gender-affirming care providers, these shield laws remain untested in court, and they have done little to deter anti-trans attacks. Many doctors said they’ve had to take added security measures as transphobic rhetoric has intensified. “There’s been a growing awareness over the last year that the environment is only getting more and more dangerous for providers,” said Kellan Baker, executive director of the Whitman-Walker Institute, a nonprofit advancing LGBTQ health care. https://lnkd.in/gPTQeD-V #whitmanwalker #whitmanwalkerinstitute #weseeyou #transgender #LGBTQ
Death threats, legal risk and backlogs weigh on clinicians treating trans minors
nbcnews.com
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Whitman-Walker reposted this
What better way to spend a sunny D.C. summer afternoon than by stopping the All of Us Research Program Journey Exhibit? Pyxis Partners team members Gina Beller, Matt Holzapfel, Noah Haines, and Hailey Waldman, MPH paid a visit to the Journey on Tuesday afternoon, which features interactive stations designed to help visitors of all ages learn about All of Us and precision medicine research. Gina even took the time to enroll as a participant in All of Us, and donate biosamples, which help researchers understand how our health history, genetics, environment, and life experiences impact our health! We’re #PyxisProud to continue building #PathwaystoProgress and connecting All of Us with local communities and organizations around the country, including Whitman-Walker, as we all work collectively to improve healthcare access and affordability for, and elevate the voices of, those historically underrepresented in biomedical research. The Journey will be in downtown D.C. until Aug. 30 at 4 p.m., and then at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center in Southeast D.C. on Sept. 3-6. To see the full Journey schedule, learn about All of Us and precision medicine research, and sign up for the program, visit https://lnkd.in/e4urzGue. #JoinAllofUs
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Whitman-Walker reposted this
🚐The All of Us Journey continue their northeast tour with a stop in #WashingtonDC. 🏢Stop by Whitman-Walker at 1525 and say hello to the staff and consider becoming part of one of the largest and richest #biomedical research programs in the world.🔬📊 www.joinallofus.org/drive At Pyxis Partners, we are so proud to be part of this historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the #UnitedStates to accelerate research and improve health. #JoinAllofUs #PyxisProud #diversityandinclusion #DEI #researchprogram #diversityinresearch #ResearchOpportunity #Participateinresearch
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This week and next, Whitman-Walker is proudly hosting the mobile unit from The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us initiative. From August 27-30 (at 1525 14th St.) and September 3-6 (at Max Robinson Center), we will host the All of Us Journey, a traveling educational exhibit that brings access to the NIH’s All of Us Research Program into communities across the United States. The Journey features interactive activities, videos, games, quizzes, and more—all designed to demonstrate the power of participation in health research. All of Us is part of NIH’s Precision Medicine Initiative and they are seeking to enroll 1 million people across the U.S. in the largest effort of its kind. Read more about our participation in this The Washington Informer article! https://lnkd.in/gFYGAepg #whitmanwalker #weseeyou #allofus #allofusresearch #NIH
Whitman-Walker to Host All of Us Journey for National Institute of Health's Research Program
http://www.washingtoninformer.com
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Dr. Kellan Baker represented the Whitman-Walker Institute on the Lavender Law panel on data collection. The discussion highlighted our critical role with government entities like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the states to ensure that Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data are collected and used safely, and securely to benefit our patients and communities. #weseeyou #wwinstitute
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