HE ALTH CARE
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urham is a hardy city with a reputation for grit: the Bull City, the town tobacco built, known for scrappy startups and good baseball. Turns out, we’re also great at getting you healthy and keeping you that way. Durham’s “City of Medicine” nickname has its origins in the creation of BC Headache Powder by two local pharmacists in 1906. Fast forward 110 years, and our physician-to-population ratio is more than four times the national average. Nearly one in three Durhamites now works in a health-related field. How did this gritty city earn a stellar reputation for healing? It helps that our hospitals are top-notch: Duke University Medical Center won a spot on the honor roll of U.S. News & World Report’s top hospitals in the nation for 2015-16. Duke University is the cornerstone of Durham’s health hub, operating Duke Children’s Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital, and smaller practices across the city. The North Carolina Specialty Hospital also provides great care, while the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital draws more than 200,000 veterans from across 26 counties in central and eastern North Carolina. We’re also respected for teaching and researching how to heal. Duke’s School of Medicine was ranked eighth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report this past year. Five of the school’s medical education specialty programs were also ranked in the top 10 nationwide: family medicine, internal medicine, geriatrics, AIDS and women’s health. Duke’s faculty roster boasts not one, but two Nobel Prize-winning researchers – biochemists Dr. Robert Lefkowitz and, most recently, Dr. Paul Modrich, who shared the 2015 Chemistry prize with UNC’s Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl in the U.K. Duke Clinical Research Institute is the country’s largest and oldest academic clinical research organization. There’s also the architectural gem of Duke Integrative Medicine, a beacon in the growing practice of holistic medicine. Research Triangle Park, nearly all of which is located in Durham County, is home to global pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer CropScience. Drug giant Merck has a plant in north Durham, and Quintiles, the largest provider of biopharmaceutical services in the world, also calls Durham home. And the city’s entrepreneurial spirit is advancing health care, led by the likes of upand-coming companies such as Validic, Forecast Health and TouchCare. Whether you’re working in the field or receiving treatment, Durham certainly is a city of medicine. DM
NEED-TO-KNOW NUMBERS Duke University Hospital 2301 Erwin Rd. Appointments: 888-275-3853 General information: 919-684-8111 Patient information: 919-684-2410 Volunteers: 919-681-5031 Patient and Visitor Relations: 919-681-2020 Patient Resource Managers: 919-668-2483 Duke Regional Hospital 3643 N. Roxboro Rd. 919-470-4000 (Patient rooms may be reached by dialing 919-470, followed by the four digits of the room number.) Frequently Called Numbers: Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center: 919-470-1000 Duke Rehabilitation Institute: 919-470-8100 Emergency department: 919-470-4000 Health Information Management (medical records): 919-470-5172 Patient accounting/billing: 919-620-4555 or 1-800-782-6945 Patient information: 919-470-4277 Patient and visitor relations: 919-470-4747 Physician referral center: 919-403-4374 Psychiatry: 919-470-6137 Volunteer services: 919-470-4150 Watts School of Nursing: 919-470-7348 Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center 2301 Erwin Rd. Appointments: 888-275-3853 Patient billing: 919-620-4555 or 800-782-6945 Office of Development: 919-385-3137 Clinic Volunteers: 919-668-4107 Duke Clinic 40 Duke Medicine Circle 919-684-8111
Duke Health and Fitness Center 3475 Erwin Rd. 919-660-6660
Duke Cancer Center 20 Duke Medicine Circle 888-275-3853
Duke Integrative Medicine 3475 Erwin Rd. 919-660-6826
Duke Center for Living Campus 3475 Erwin Rd. 888-275-3853 Appointments: 855-855-6484
Duke Primary Care 919-813-6367
Duke Diet & Fitness Center 501 Douglas St. 1-800-235-3853
Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital 3000 Erwin Rd. 919-684-6669
Durham VA Medical Center 508 Fulton St. 919-286-0411
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