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  2. Duke University Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Duke University Hospital is a 1048 -bed acute care facility [1] and an academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. [2] Established in 1930, it is the flagship teaching hospital for the Duke University Health System, a network of physicians and hospitals serving Durham County and Wake County, North Carolina, and surrounding areas, as well as one of three ...

  3. Duke University - Wikipedia

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    Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. [13] In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. [14]

  4. History of Duke University - Wikipedia

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    History of Duke University. The history of Duke University began when Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina (in the present-day town of Trinity ), was founded in 1838. [1] The school was renamed to Union Institute Academy in 1841, Normal College in 1851, and to Trinity College in 1859.

  5. Duke University Health System - Wikipedia

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    The Duke University Medical Center is located in Durham, North Carolina, and affiliated with Duke University. Formerly known as the Duke University Hospital and Medical School, it was established in 1930 with a bequest from James B. Duke. The Medical Center now occupies 7.5 million square feet (700,000 m 2) in 90 buildings on 210 acres (850,000 ...

  6. Duke University Hospital unionization drives - Wikipedia

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    The Duke University Hospital unionization drives of the 1970s involved two distinct organizing efforts aimed at uniting the service workers of Duke Hospital. The drives were defined by their fusion of the fight for worker’s rights with the battle for racial equality. The first drive in 1974 was characterized by unity amongst the workers ...

  7. AFSCME Local 77, Duke University - Wikipedia

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    AFSCME Local 77. The Local 77 chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is a Duke University labour union established in August 1965. It initially began as the Duke Employees Benevolent Society in February 1965, led by Oliver Harvey. The formation of Local 77 was directed towards improving work conditions for ...

  8. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist - Wikipedia

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    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an academic medical center and health system located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and part of Charlotte -based Atrium Health. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County, with more than 19,220 employees and a total of 198 buildings on 428 acres. In addition to the main, tertiary-care hospital in ...

  9. Duke University East Campus - Wikipedia

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    East Campus is part of Duke University 's campus in Durham, North Carolina. East Campus, along with West Campus, make up most of Duke 's main campus. The campus follows the Georgian architecture style, [1] making it distinct from West Campus. Currently, East Campus is the exclusive residential home to first-year students. [1] It borders Trinity Historic District to the east and Walltown ...