Starting this summer, Capital Caring Health will provide reliable, non-emergency transportation services. Each van will be operating eight-hour shifts every day and each driver goes through an extensive training program to understand the unique needs of patients and families. Along with the driver, there will also be a nurse present. The vans have raised roofs, a powered gurney loading system, an ambulance-quality gurney, storage bracket for wheelchair, two O2 oxygen cylinders that provide five hours of oxygen and ambulance-quality first aid items. This service will be at NO EXPENSE to the hospital. Please share this information with your care coordinators and discharge planners.

To pay back our incredible health care professionals and heroes in our community, please join us in celebrating the return of the Wizards Health Care Appreciation Night! Tickets include access to the early entry experience where fans can watch warm-ups from 100-level seating before gates open for the night, as well as a chance to join the post-game picture experience.

• Wizards vs. Magic, April 3, 2025 @ 7 pm, Capital One Arena

There are more than 5,000 community hospitals in the United States. The care they provide for patients is critical and often extends beyond the four walls of the hospital and into the community. As a result, community hospitals provide 24/7 access to needed medical care, support unmet community health needs and serve as economic pillars in their community.

Highlights: A widespread decrease is noted this month across all five of our focus utilization metrics: ambulatory surgeries have the deepest dip in volumes going from 10% over pre-COVID baseline to -2% below baseline in November. Emergency department visits present the second biggest drop in volumes going from -19% below baseline in October to -26% below baseline in November. Observation admissions show a similar decrease in volumes going from 8% over baseline in October to 0% in November, and acute care admissions declined going from -12% below baseline in October to -16% in November. Finally, psychiatric admissions decreased from -21% below baseline in October to -24% in November (see Fig. 1).

A downward shift in psychiatric admissions is noted this month after remaining below the median for six months consecutively as pictured in Fig. 2 below. This month involuntary admissions moved above the median for the reported time period following the downward trend noted over the past five months as depicted in Fig. 3 below.