St. Elizabeths East

Highlights

Whitman-Walker is embarking on a transformative health care expansion in Ward 8, steps from the Congress Heights Metro Station. Whitman-Walker will open a 118,000 square foot health care facility at the St. Elizabeths East Campus in 2023.

A historic gem in the middle of the nation’s capital, St. Elizabeths East is located at the site of a formerly self-contained mental health community – St. Elizabeths Hospital. Once a source of economic stability for neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, this campus is surrounded by the rich and complex history of communities that are an essential part of the story of the District of Columbia. Its associations with some of America’s most famous people and events, coupled with a once-celebrated past of architectural innovation and landscape design, make it a largely unexplored historic treasure.

As a medical facility, St. Elizabeths charted new ground and became a nationally recognized symbol of healthcare and medical breakthroughs. Today St. Elizabeths East holds the promise for advancing new and global innovation on a much wider scale.