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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 ...
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 ...
The Duke Cancer Institute ( DCI) is a National Cancer Institute -designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, research facility, and hospital. [1] Founded in 1971, the center is part of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University Health System located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
Duke Health is ramping up hospital security in response to a rise in attacks on its employees, the most recent of which occurred on Thursday morning. Police arrested a patient, Stanley Scarboro ...
The Rice Diet Program was founded in 1939 by Walter Kempner [ de] (1903-1997), a German physician and refugee from the Nazis, who was at that time associated with Duke University. [1] [2] Kempner had many patients with malignant hypertension with kidney failure, and there were no good treatments for those patients. He believed that the kidney had two functions, one excretory and the other ...
In a new set of hospital rankings released last month, Duke Regional Hospital in Durham was named the nation’s second-most “socially responsible” hospital, while other Triangle- and North ...
The Duke University School of Medicine, commonly known as Duke Med, is the medical school of Duke University. It was established in 1925 by James B. Duke . The School of Medicine, along with the Duke University School of Nursing, Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, and other ...
Jesica Santillan (December 26, 1985 – February 22, 2003) was a Mexican national who died after an organ transplant operation in which she received the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began.