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District Launches City's First Healthy Homes Program

Date Released: 
Thu, 05/17/2012

District Launches City's First Healthy Homes Program

(Washington, DC) -- The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) recently launched the city’s first Healthy Homes program, designed to identify and assess environmental health threats to children and pregnant women and provide customized solutions to eliminate them.   Through this program, DDOE will evaluate 100 hazardous homes with children, 18 years and under, who have been hospitalized with asthma, and an additional 100 homes with at-risk children or pregnant women.

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