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Hospital Unveils New Equipment
District officials unveiled improvements yesterday at United Medical Center in Southeast, which was known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital before city intervention and a takeover by a new company in 2007.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D), D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D), council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) and Attorney General Peter Nickles cut the ribbons on a wound healing center and $1.3 million magnetic resonance imaging machine.
It is the first MRI machine east of the Anacostia River.
"Two years ago, when this hospital was on the verge of closing, I could not have imagined standing here to cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art MRI machine," Catania, chairman of the council's health committee, said in a news release.
"To many of us here today, this is more than a new piece of equipment," Catania said in the release. "To us, it represents the District Government's commitment to the well-being of our residents."
The city invested $79 million to bail out the hospital in 2007.
-- Nikita Stewart
FEDERAL COURT
Man Sentenced in Embezzlement
A 40-year-old District man was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for embezzling $500,000 from his company and evading federal income taxes over a two-year span, federal prosecutors said.
