Max Robinson Center
Northern Virginia
   


Getting to Max Robinson Center

By Metro: Take the Green Line to the Anacostia Metro stop.  When you come up from the Metro, turn left and go two blocks. The Max Robinson Center is located at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue and Chicago Street, S.E.

By bus: The 90, P6 and P2 bus lines stop directly outside the Max Robinson Center.

   
 

MAX ROBINSON CENTER

Primary medical care is available at Max Robinson Center for anyone regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.

Max Robinson Center of Whitman-Walker Clinic
2301 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20020

(202) 678-8877
(202) 678-8099 (Fax)

E-mail:
mrcwwcwwc.org

 

Hours

Monday-Tuesday 8:00 am-8:00 pm
Wednesday-Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Whitman-Walker Clinic's Max Robinson Center, named after the nation's first African-American network news anchor, Max Robinson, who died of AIDS in 1988, has been providing HIV/AIDS services for clients living in southeast D.C. since 1992. MRC provides a wide range of services to the community east of the Anacostia River and for Prince George's County in a culturally competent and sensitive manner. MRC serves an area that traditionally has been underserved and faces tremendous challenges when it comes to primary health care and HIV/AIDS services.

Services provided include:

Anonymous and Confidential HIV Testing
Primary Medical Care
Dental Services
Day Treatment
HIV/AIDS Support Services
Mental Health and Addiction Treatment

Anonymous and Confidential HIV Testing

Free anonymous and confidential HIV testing is available at the following times:
Monday 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Tuesday 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Thursday 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Friday 9:30 am-4:00 pm

Primary Medical Care
If you would like to see a doctor at Whitman-Walker, please fill out our registration form and our medical intake form. These forms are PDF document, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open them. You can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat by clicking here.

After you have completed the forms, call (202) 939-7690 to make an appointment and bring the completed forms with you. Completing the forms in advance will save time during your visit.

Dental Services
MRC provides dental care to the uninsured or underinsured diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Day Treatment
Day treatment creates a setting for holistic health care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Nutritional assessment and counseling, nursing care, support and psychotherapy groups and activities in art, music, and movement therapy are among the services offered to maintain a focus on the whole person in the healing process.

HIV/AIDS Support Services
Case managers are available to coordinate access to services within the Center, and to other community-based agencies.  Case managers can help you to cope with problems associated with housing, transportation, accessing medical and dental care, child care, entitlements applications and any of the many challenges that people living with HIV/AIDS must deal with every day.

Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services
Professionally led psychotherapy groups, psychiatric evaluation, peer facilitated support  groups, individual and couples counseling, addiction treatment counseling and referral and assistance for HIV-related mental health issues are available through this program.

Max Robinson Center News

Happy in the Face of Adversity - Couple Weds in DC HIV Clinic Where They Met (7-27-02)

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