Health DC - Go Local Launched

People throughout the District of Columbia now have a fast, free, and easy way to find health services close to where they live and work.

Healthy DC - Go Local enables consumers to search for doctors, hospitals, clinics, health screening and testing programs, support groups, mental health centers, counselors, and other programs and services. The site offers additional information and convenience because is it linked to MedlinePlus, the consumer health database of the National Library of Medicine.

From MedlinePlus pages about a given health topic, a user can select a link to the applicable Go Local site for information about related services that may be located nearby. Conversely, a Go Local user looking up local services by disease/condition can select a link to related health information from MedlinePlus.

Healthy DC - Go Local was created by medical librarians at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library and Georgetown University's Dahlgren Memorial Library, in collaboration with librarians at Howard University's Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library.