Guide to Top US Metro Areas: Washington, DC
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In DC, you¹ll meet decisionmakers in healthcare in many a bar in Georgetown. Decisions made here affect both national and global health. From policy wonks to insurance lobbyists, DC is home base for political power brokers . They hand out the money – at the National Institute of Health,, the National Cancer Institute and National Science Foundaiton ¬ and regulate and enforce health legistlation ¬ at the Food and Drug Administration, for example. If you¹re interested in healthcare lobbying, – for for profit or nonprofits – there¹s no other place to be, really. And even if policy if not your thing, in DC, you¹ll have a ringside seat on the coming healthcare reform show.
On the medical front, top-ranked Johns Hopkins only an hour away in nearby Baltimore, is the #1 rated Best Hospital in the country and one of the leading centers for medical research.
DC is also a heady place to be for genetic research., Craig Venter, who beat the government¹s Human Genome Project to publish the first human genome sequence, in 2000 by starting his own company Celera (in Bethesda) recently also became the first to publish, in 2007, a complete (six-billion-letter) genome ¬ his own. Could this be the perfect statement to sum up this city of the powerful who live life a little bit larger than the rest of us?
Fortunately, they have the money, the talent and the ability to pull off many a miracle, when it comes to healthcare.
Biggest Employers
1. Washington Hospital Center
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2. MedStar Health System
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3. Inova Health System
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4. Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc.
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5. Chindex International, Inc.
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