There’s a growing crisis for some of the aging population in the nation’s capital, advocates say. The News4 I-Team found some D.C. residents who need care are being sent long distances from the community they know. Hundreds of D.C. residents, some of them unhoused, are residing in Maryland nursing homes.
On a hot September day, the News4 I-Team spotted Simon Reed, a Northeast D.C. resident, in his wheelchair along Stuart Lane in Clinton, Maryland, a suburb in Prince George’s County. He was panhandling outside a McDonald’s.
He said he’s been living in the Clinton Healthcare Center for three years — longer than he ever expected. He said he was sent to Clinton after a medical emergency.
“I got my triple bypass, my heart surgery,” Reed said.
He told the I-Team a nonprofit that provides medical care to people experiencing homelessness in D.C. sent him to the Maryland nursing home.
Reed …