d.c., and spoke to the ceo into cancer on how covid night being as affected things like cancer screenings. welcome to whitman walker health. i am the chief here. we are so grateful to have you back in washington. we are a very qualified health center. we provide care to 25,000 individuals every year. about 500 are living with cancer. because of our historic commitment to the lgbtq community, we have 3500 living with hiv in 2000 transgender patients. we have revolutionized covid, but i want to share more about cancer work. the 500 patients we have currently have colon cancer, skin cancer, chest cancer, and the last one i am forget. we do about 12,000 screenings a year. one thing that is unique about us is that we do colonoscopies on site. for the amount of referrals we have to do for services, we do less. i would love to have him offer up information about the cancer support partnership. for some years now, we have worked together in the cancer space. i have to start by of
welcome to whitman walker health. i am the chief executive officer here. i know that i share the thanks of all of our employees and our patients. we are so grateful to have you back in washington. we are a qualified health center here in d.c. we provide care to about 20,000 unique individuals every year. about 500 of them currently are living with cancer. but because of our historic commitment to the lgbtq community, we have about 2000 transgender and gender expansive patients. so, we ve revolutionized covid. and we will talk about that. but we want to share more about our cancer work. the 500 patients we have currently have colon cancer, skin cancer, chest cancer, and the last one i m forgetting. but importantly, we have about 12,000 screenings a year. and one of the things that has been unique about us is we do colonoscopies on site. with the amount of referrals we have to do for those particular services, we do last. and we ve been longtime partners with the cancer suppo
back in washington. we are a qualified health center here in d.c. we provide care to about 20,000 unique individuals every year. about 500 of them currently are living with cancer. but because of our historic commitment to the lgbtq community, we have about 2000 transgender and gender expansive patients. so, we ve revolutionized covid. and we will talk about that. but we want to share more about our cancer work. the 500 patients we have currently have colon cancer, skin cancer, chest cancer, and the last one i m forgetting. but importantly, we have about 12,000 screenings a year. and one of the things that has been unique about us is we do colonoscopies on site. with the amount of referrals we have to do for those particular services, we do last. and we ve been longtime partners with the cancer support community. and i d love to have kim offer up information about that. wonderful. dr. biden, we ve known each other for some years now and work together in the cancer space. i
here in d.c. we provide care to about 20,000 unique individuals every year. about 500 of them currently are living with cancer. because of our historic system with the lgbtq community we have about 2000 transgender and gender expansive patient. we have revolutionized covid. we want to share more about our cancer work. the 500 patients we have currently have colon cancer, skin cancer, chest cancer, and the last one i am forgetting. but importantly, we have about 12,000 screenings a year. one of the things that has been unique about us is we do colonoscopies on site. with the amount of referrals we have to do for those particular services, we do last. we have been longtime partners with the cancer support community. i would love to have kim offer up information about that. dr. biden, we have known each other for some years now and work together in the cancer space. i want to start by offering our congratulations to you and the president. we are very excited, and we are partic
first, we applaud the senate s strong bipartisan confirmation of lloyd austin, who has been breaking barriers all his life as the first black secretary of defense in our history. secretary austen s conversation is a major benefit to national security. he is going to hit the ground running leading the pentagon. he will be sworn in today, but sworn in more officially not more officially, i should say, but sworn in more ceremoniously monday by the vice president. the president is happy to see janet yellen, the first woman to lead the u.s. treasury department, was unanimously voted out of committee this morning. this should only be the beginning. we face on president threats and challenges. our country desperately needs our homeland security chief in place. alexander mayorkas has earned bipartisan praise and has previously been confirmed by the senate three times. this is a confirmation we will continue to press in our engagements and conversations with the senate. i have news