Medical Center and Health System Facts

Figures are for fiscal year 2007 unless otherwise indicated.

A 2007 U.S.News & World Report ranking placed Duke University Medical Center among the top seven of 173 qualifying medical centers, and only one of 18 to make the "Honor Roll."

For the eighth year running, Triangle residents rated Duke University Medical Center the best-quality hospital in the Durham-Chapel Hill area -- earning Duke a 2006-2007 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation.

Annual operating revenues, Duke University Health System: $1.8 billion

Medical Center campus size: 94 buildings located on 210 acres

Gross square feet: 7.86 million

Faculty and Staff Facts

Duke is the largest employer in Durham County and the second-largest private non-manufacturing employer in North Carolina. Duke University Health System has approximately 12,037 full-time employees, while the academic Duke University Medical Center has 8,648 full-time employees, and Duke University has 7,591 employees for a total of 28,276.

About 13 percent of Duke University Medical Center employees have an MD or PhD degree (or both).

Included among them are:

• 877 "house staff" physicians working as residents and fellows;
• 1,566 faculty in the clinical programs;
• 190 faculty in the basic sciences.

Education Facts

All figures are current as of September 2007 unless otherwise noted.

In 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranked the Duke University School of Medicine among the top six research programs in the United States. In the primary care category, Duke tied for 41st.

For the class entering September 2007, the School of Medicine received 5,300 applications for 101 slots.

The Duke University School of Nursing ranked 14th among U.S. nursing schools in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2006.

U.S.News & World Report ranked Duke's physician assistant program as number two in the United States for 2007.

Duke's clinical psychology and doctor of physical therapy programs were ranked ninth and 13th, respectively, in the 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranking.

Student Facts

School of Medicine MD Program: 410

PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 476

School of Nursing: 472

• Accelerated BSN: 117
• MSN degree: 347
• PhD degree: 8

Medical and Health Professions:

• Doctor of Physical Therapy: 155
• Physician Assistant (MHS degree): 115
• Pathologist's Assistant (MHS degree): 13
• Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 3
• Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 61
• Ophthalmic Medical Technician Program: 13

Graduate Medical Education: 877 residents and fellows

Continuing Medical Education: In fiscal year 2006, DOCME sponsored 261 activities attended by 40,000 physicians and 18,000 non-physicians.

Research Facts

All figures are current as of September 2007 unless otherwise noted.

Duke University Medical Center comprises one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country, with more than $500 million in sponsored research in 2006.

It is ranked among the top five American medical schools in National Institutes of Health grant funding, with its research funding growing by 14.8 percent in fiscal year 2005 -- the highest rate of growth among the nation's 20 top-ranked institutions.

With highly respected research programs in areas ranging from cancer and heart disease to the basic sciences and health policy research, Duke is home to the nation's largest and oldest academic clinical research organization -- the Duke Clinical Research Institute -- and to the $200-million Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, a campus-wide initiative to address the broad challenges of the genomic revolution.

About 17 percent of Duke students are enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program, which leads to both a MD and a PhD in one of the basic sciences. Created to train highly qualified students as physician-scientists, the program has graduated more MD-PhDs than any such program in the country and is highly regarded nationally.

Patient Care Facts

Figures are for Duke University Health System (including Duke University Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke HomeCare & Hospice, Duke University Affiliated Physicians) for fiscal year 2007 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatient admissions: 60,935

Outpatient visits: 1,417,723

Number of surgical procedures: 83,959

Figures are for Duke University Hospital, hospital-based clinics, and DUMC outpatient locations for fiscal year 2007 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatients: 41,037

Outpatient visits: 863,038

Average adult daily census (without observation): 656

Total inpatient days (including normal newborns): 245,786

Emergency Department visits: 58,765

Patients transported by LifeFlight (excludes ground): 806

Number of surgical operations: 33,718

Hospital lab procedures: 8,620,667

Babies delivered: 3,202

Cardiac catheterizations (adult/pediatric/mobile): 5,872

Cardiac catheterizations in mobile units: 351

Angioplasties: 1,372

Open heart surgeries:

• Adult: 881
• Pediatric: 135
• Thoracic: 1,430

Organ transplants:

• Kidney: 109
• Pancreas: 16
• Lung: 54
• Heart: 45
• Liver: 38

Charity Care Facts

In 1925 James B. Duke willed $4 million to establish Duke Hospital and its medical school. His goal: to improve health care in the Carolinas, then a relatively poor region lacking in hospitals and care providers.

Duke Medicine has devoted itself to that goal ever since, making sure that people across the region are able to get the medical care they need regardless of their ability to pay.

In fiscal year 2007, Duke University Health System provided charity medical care to low-income patients at a cost of $42.5 million and $6.9 million in in-kind service contributions and direct support payments to Lincoln Community Health Center and emergency medical services (EMS) in Durham County.

Community Outreach Facts

Duke works with many community partners to improve health care in its hometown, Durham. Examples of local outreach programs include:

• Primary care clinics within four Durham public schools, serving mostly low-income youngsters: George Watts Elementary, Glenn Elementary, EK Powe Elementary, and Southern High schools. Clinics operate during the school year and provide mental health and medical services, and local medical coverage during school vacations.
• Just for Us/Promising Practices, providing primary care, nutrition counseling, and patient support for frail, medically complex elderly patients in their apartments, based in 10 public or subsidized senior housing sites
• Lyon Park Clinic, a neighborhood clinic providing primary care to low-income Durham patients in a community center in Durham's West End
• Walltown Neighborhood Clinic, providing primary care to low-income patients at 815 Broad Street in Durham’s Walltown neighborhood
• Durham Community Health Network, providing in-home health education on chronic disease, patient support, and patient advocacy for the 17,600 Medicaid patients who are enrolled at eight Duke and community primary care practices
• Local Access to Coordinated Healthcare (LATCH), providing bilingual in-home health education on chronic disease, patient support, and patient advocacy to 9,300 uninsured Durham residents, 96 percent of whom are Latino
• Learning Together, providing health education in select public schools, assistance to patients to apply for public benefits, and support to Duke’s partner agencies through Duke staff and trained health learners
• ALMA (Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma), a joint research program with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to train Latinas in teaching coping skills to their peers in Durham and Chatham counties
• BeineSTAR, a bilingual mental health service for Latino families and children enrolled in the school-based clinics at EK Powe, George Watts, and Glenn elementary schools
• African American Health Improvement Partnership, a community-based participatory research program serving black adults with diabetes through support groups, home coaching, and education

Beyond Durham, Duke is making strides to improve the health of communities throughout the Carolinas:

• Five County Community Care, providing health education on chronic disease, patient support, and patient advocacy to 21,000 Medicaid patients enrolled in 21 practices in Vance, Warren, Granville, Person, and Franklin counties
• Fullerton Community Nutrition Network, providing free technical assistance to community groups in developing nutrition programs in Bladen, Scotland, Vance, Granville, Person, and Warren counties, plus three counties in South Carolina

Regional Outreach Facts

Duke works with care providers to bring advanced technology, treatment, and educational programs into rural areas. A few examples:

• Duke's mobile cardiac catheterization labs, HeartCare 1 and HeartCare 2, have been operating since 1990. Since 2002, two brand-new replacement labs have been purchased. To date, more than 16,500 diagnostic cardiac catheterizations have been performed at rural hospitals in North Carolina and southern Virginia.
• The Duke Oncology Network establishes clinical, educational, and research relationships with hospitals throughout the Southeast. Within North Carolina and Virginia, DON has established and operates nine community oncology programs. In four of these communities, Duke has placed full-time Duke oncologists. In two of the communities, Duke also operates a radiation oncology program with Duke radiation oncologists on site. In addition to these clinical affiliates, Duke Oncology Network has 11 research and two program development affiliates throughout the Southeast.
• Each year Duke brings hundreds of continuing education classes to physicians and other providers in dozens of regional communities; the School of Nursing also offers online degree programs so nurses can pursue advanced training while remaining in their home communities.