Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in
Raleigh-Durham, NC
With especially strong scores in 10 specialties, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, was named once again to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Duke University Medical Center is ranked nationally in 15 adult and 10 pediatric specialties. This hospital is a 798-bed general medical and surgical facility with 38,489 annual admissions, according to the latest data. It performed 15,651 annual inpatient and 19,343 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 66,177 visits. Duke University Medical Center is a teaching hospital. It is also accredited by the Joint Commission (JC).
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Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 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 among 76 facilities ranked in one or more of the 10 pediatric specialties in the 2011-12 version of Best Children's Hospitals.
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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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80%
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| State Average |
71%
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| National Average |
69%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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2%
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5%
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| National Average |
5%
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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.
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Contact
Duke University Medical Center
2301 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27710-0001
(919) 684–8111
