Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in
North Carolina
Recognized in
Piedmont
Ranked
#1 in
Raleigh-Durham, NC metro area
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC is ranked nationally in 13 adult and 10 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 2 adult specialties, as shown below. Duke University Medical Center is a 812-bed general medical and surgical facility with 38,205 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 16,721 annual inpatient and 20,564 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 68,646 visits. Duke University Medical Center is a teaching hospital.
These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:
Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.
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Pediatric Specialties
This hospital was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012-13 Best Children's Hospitals.
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Editor's Note, 7/17/2012: Some children's hospitals were initially misranked in one or more specialties due to a programming error that affected their scores. The website now displays correct rankings. To see if this hospital was one of the affected hospitals, get details here.
Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
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84%
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| State Average |
71%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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3%
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4%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
See complete hospital details (provided by AHA)
Affiliated Hospitals or Services
Contact
Duke University Medical Center
2301 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27710-0001
(919) 684–8111
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