Birth Service changes due to COVID-19 as of July 29, 2020:
Centering Prenatal Care: We have restarted Centering Pregnancy virtually using Zoom and plan to have these visits alternate with your individual in person visits. Please look for a call from the Group Care Coordinator for dates and further information.
Families birthing at the Family Health and Birth Center: Community of Hope (COH) encourages all of our patients to wear masks in public, even if you are feeling well. Wearing masks inside the clinic and birth center is required, and all family members and support teams attending births must wear a mask for the duration of their stay. Your partner or support person are welcome at the birth center during your birth. Additionally, to your partner or personal support person, your doula may also attend your birth center birth. All support people will be required to wear a mask while inside birthing center. At this time COH midwives are not requiring laboring patients to wear a mask.
When you call us because you are in labor, you will be asked about your health, as well as the health of any potential visitors. When a birthing family/team arrives at the Birth Center, all individuals will be asked a series of screening questions. Temperatures of all family/team members will also be taken. If ANY member of the birthing person’s support team, including partner, has a fever or any COVID related symptoms, they will not be permitted to stay at the birth center with the birthing person. Once cleared for entry, COH asks that for everyone’s safety, that all accompanying persons stay in the birthing room. We are not able to open the common area with the exception of coming out for food or drink. In order to minimize exposure to patients and staff, uncomplicated labors and deliveries will aim to discharge from the birth center at ~4 hours postpartum.
Home Visits: We are not currently able to provide home visits to our families. Instead, we will ask the birthing person with infant and their support person to come to the COH clinic for evaluation on the day that they would otherwise be due for their in- home visit. All routine newborn screenings will be completed at this visit (metabolic screen, hearing screen, critical congenital heart disease).
Learn more about our COVID-19 protocols here.
Find your family’s medical home at Community of Hope’s Carver-Langston health center in Northeast DC.
Our Family Caring for Yours
This health center, which includes a nationally accredited Birth Center, is located conveniently in Northeast DC and provides a range of healthcare services for your entire family, with a special focus on serving pregnant mothers and their babies. We offer same-day appointments for urgent visits, as well as appointments within three days for most other visits. Free parking is available on site.
Some of the services you and your family can receive are:
- Physicals, immunizations, and urgent visits
- Chronic disease management
- Pediatric care, including well and sick visits
- Prenatal care and pregnancy support groups
- Birthing services either at a local hospital or in our birth center
- Breastfeeding support and education
- Behavioral healthcare
- Family planning counseling and services, including birth control and confidential youth services
- Confidential HIV/AIDS and STI testing and treatment
- Nutrition and wellness counseling
- WIC and other social service referrals
See a list of our comprehensive services offered.
Are you an expectant mother? Learn more about our birthing services here. We offer hospital births and a limited number of births at our free-standing birth center.
We accept Medicare and Medicaid and most private insurances. If you do not have insurance, we have enrollment assisters at this location who can get you signed up for the best plan to meet your healthcare needs and answer your coverage questions. We have a sliding fee scale for those without insurance or high out-of-pocket costs with their insurance.
See a full list of the insurances we accept.
Come visit us for an outstanding patient experience! Schedule your appointment today.
Family Health and Birth Center
801 17th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.398.5520
24-Hour Nurse Advice Line: 202.540.9857
(A nurse will call you back within 30 minutes or less)
Monday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Tuesday | 8:30 AM – 8:00 PM |
Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Thursday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Friday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Saturday | 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM |
Monday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Tuesday | 8:30 AM – 8:00 PM |
Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Thursday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Friday | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM |
Our Family Health and Birth Center has received the Regional Breastfeeding-Friendly Healthcare Provider Award from the DC Breastfeeding Coalition.
Of FHBC patients say they would recommend Community of Hope to family and friends.
Carmen Montgomery, mother of 7 babies born at FHBC