ReOpen DC Committee | Human Services, Social Services, and Health

Mission

More than 3,000 DC residents have been infected by COVID-19, and more than 150 have died. Eighty percent of people of who have succumb to COVID-19 are African American, and about a quarter of them are in a vulnerable population. The District heavily invests in residents, with our health and human services investments making up over $4B of our $15B annual budget. The District has also boasted one of the highest level of insured individuals in the nation, but our health outcomes do not mirror our investments.

Focus

The committee will focus on ensuring that our recovery invests in ensuring our health care delivery system is more accessible, and that vulnerable communities have access to testing, primary, special, and hospital care and the social supports (shelter, food, income replacement services) available to them. The committee will evaluate how crisis standards of care can be safely stepped down, the impact of non-COVID-19 acute procedures at area hospitals, and how to make our systems better prepared in terms of a local supply distribution systems for medical providers.