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At a troubled D.C. hospital, fewer patients and looming cuts in funding, services Julie Zauzmer, Lola Fadulu © Craig Hudson/for The Washington Post Outside of United Medical Center in Southeast Washington on Monday. Troy Jones lives across the street from United Medical Center in Southeast Washington. For years he sought treatment there for high blood pressure, diabetes and other ailments. But now when Jones, 53, is sick, he boards a series of buses to get to George Washington University Hospital, eight miles away in downtown Washington. “If you go to GW, they treat you nice. But this hospital don’t treat you nice,” he said Monday outside the campus of UMC, the District’s only public hospital. “As long as I know they’re going to take good care of me, I don’t care how long it take me.”

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