The District has settled a lawsuit that gives it the green light to sell the beleagured United Medical Center in Southeast. The city paid $6 million to Specialty Hospitals of Washington, the former owner of the hospital that challenged the foreclosure of the hospital in 2010 by the Fenty administration.

The settlement will allow the District to sell the 184-bed hospital, at Southern Avenue and 13th Street, Southeast.  A Superior Court ruling this year questioned the validity of the foreclosure, which created uncertainty about the title of the hospital, according to the attorney general office’s statement.

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