Word: carolina
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Then, within hours, O'Connor was back on the phone telling Trotter that PHP wanted Hunter moved--not to Alabama this time but to the University of North Carolina Medical Center, a mere 20 minutes away...
...Buying a whole range of health-care companies, which will allow it to deliver "cradle to grave" service in a 32-county region in North Carolina and Virginia. With more patients and a dominant position in a regional market Duke can drive harder bargains with HMOs...
Duke University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...
...brought people from Durham to the campus for breakfast meetings. Duke's current president, Nan Keohane, has reached out even further. Since arriving in 1993, she has opened a Duke University office in downtown Durham and helped establish clinics in five city schools. Although the public University of North Carolina receives the bulk of government funding for indigent care in the city, Duke and Durham Regional Hospital together provide 90% of that care. "I don't think they've always gotten the credit for what they do in the community," says Dr. Evelyn D. Schmidt, executive director of Lincoln Community...
...coast along U.S. Highway 50. This week we take a similar high-impact approach to the vital subject of healing, in a 36-page special report on a week in the life of one of the nation's premier teaching hospitals. That institution, Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, agreed to play host to 14 of our journalists, who examined everything from the effects of managed care and advances in medical research to the role of religion in patients' recovery...