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“D.C.’s First Postpartum Retreat: Now Open at the iconic Watergate Hotel.”

By Prince Of Petworth


2650 Virginia Ave, NW photo courtesy Fourth Trimester

From a press release:

“Fourth Trimester Postnatal Retreat (Fourth Trimester), D.C.’s first postnatal retreat located at The Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., is now open and accepting reservations for October deliveries.

Founded by board-certified nurse practitioner and Northern Virginia native, Megan Francis and her husband, Brent Boroff, Fourth Trimester Postnatal Retreat serves as a dedicated community where parents and newborns receive the care, attention and support needed during the delicate transition period after coming home from the hospital with a new baby.

Fourth Trimester families will experience a highly customizable and individualized stay based on the unique needs of each family. Services and classes included are: (more…)

“Mayor Bowser and DC Health Encourage Residents to Protect Themselves from Winter Respiratory Illnesses by Getting New COVID-19 Booster, Flu and RSV Vaccines”

By Prince Of Petworth

Where will you be getting your boosters? Pharmacy/CVS? Doctor’s office? When do you plan on getting one/them?

From the Mayor’s Office:

“Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Health are encouraging District residents to protect themselves, their families, and the community from respiratory illnesses by receiving new and existing vaccines and boosters for COVID-19, RSV, and the flu.  (more…)

“I recently read that 80% of hospital bills contain errors!”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

I wanted to share some information on something I recently learned about bills at Children’s National.  We unfortunately had an 18 hour hospital stay with our son earlier this year and got a very hefty $2100 bill even with our “good” insurance.  This seemed outrageous so I started poking around and followed the internet advice to request an itemized bill which revealed a couple errors.  I recently read that 80% of hospital bills contain errors!
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“DC CAN COVID-19 Exposure Notification System Ceasing Operations May 11”

By Prince Of Petworth


photo by Emma K Alexandra

Justin writes:

“Understandable but unfortunate. It was DC CAN that informed me of my April 2022 exposure, and it’s instruction to rapid test resulted in my positive diagnosis a good 36 hours before I developed symptoms, allowing me to protect others in the interlude.”

From DC Health:

“DC Health would like to thank residents for using the DC COVID Alert Notice (DC CAN) COVID-19 exposure notification system to help protect yourself and our community. Exposure notifications helped to prevent thousands of cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic and allowed people to take action to prevent its spread. In DC alone, over 37,000 people used DC CAN to anonymously alert others of possible exposure to COVID-19, generating more than a million exposure notifications.

The nationwide program that supports the DC CAN exposure notification system will discontinue operations on May 11, 2023. As a result, (more…)

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