Directions and Parking

Children’s National offers electric vehicle charging stations that are available for a fee for patient families and staff. 

Fee: $0.20 per KwH

On the Main Campus, there are: 

• 6 stations on P1 East for patient and visitor use
• 6 stations on P2 West for employees 
• 5 stations on P3 West for executive staff 

At Brookland parking garage, there are: 

• 8 stations for employees

Patient families, visitors and employees can use the SemaConnect and PlugShare apps to charge their vehicles. Please enter code #CHIL2614 to receive authorization for access.

Download the SemaConnect app:

• For iPhone users
• For Android users

Parking for people with disabilities is available on the P-1 parking level. When you first enter the garage, after you pass through the entrance gate, turn left and look for these parking spaces. There are elevators from the P-1 level up to the main hospital entrance. Please use the tan-colored phone located on the P-1 level if you need a wheelchair or help with moving yourself, a patient or visitor into the hospital.

The 7-day parking passes offer hospital visitors and families the option of unlimited (in and out) access to visitors parking area for a 7-day period of time. 

Cost

• 7-day pass: $40
  

Where to Purchase

• These passes can only be purchased at the Parking Office located on the 1st floor of East Tower near Welcome Desk.

Parking Office Hours of Operation 

• 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday 
  

Contact Phone Numbers

• 202-476-5422
• 202-476-5457

Accepted Methods of Payment

• Cash
• Credit or debit card

How to Use

First time exit with pass: 

• Obtain a parking ticket from the machine at the entrance gate. 
• Proceed to the Parking Office to purchase a pass. 
• Proceed to the exit with the ticket from the entrance gate and the pass. 
• At the exit gate, insert the ticket obtained from the entrance, followed by the pass as form of payment. 
• The pass will be returned.  Take the pass from the exit gate machine.   
  

Continued use of pass   

• When returning to the visitor parking garage, insert the pass into the ticket machine at the entrance to the parking garage.   (Do not take a new ticket). 
• Entrance ticket machine will return the pass and the gate will go up.  
• When exiting the garage, insert the pass into machine. Exit machine will return the pass.  Take the pass from the machine before exiting the garage.

Expiration Date and Time

Important: Pass will be activated with the time printed on the original parking ticket and will be good for 7 days. Expiration date and time is shown on front of the ticket.  

Additional Information

• Keep your long-term pass receipt. This is needed to replace lost ticket. 
• If the pass expires while parked inside the garage; the regular parking rate from the expiration time stamped on the ticket will be charged. 
• If the pass expires while outside of the parking garage, the entrance machine will keep the pass.