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...Duke Med is grateful too. It is affiliated with the center, which is only a few miles from its main hospital, and much prefers to handle such routine checkups here rather than in its own high-priced facilities. Lincoln Community is one of dozens of affiliations and joint ventures that Duke has with local medical facilities spread throughout the 27-county region targeted as its turf. Serving 29,000 registered patients, who made 102,000 visits last year, Lincoln is a gleaming example of Duke's community outreach at work...
...always is a hand extended by Duke so welcome in Durham. Earlier this year, when Duke announced plans to acquire Durham Regional Hospital and nearby Raleigh Community Hospital, many in the area were suspicious of its motives. They feared, not without cause, that Duke was trying to take complete control of health care in the region by buying up all the competition. A major worry was that Duke would then jack up prices, as any monopoly would...
...first public hearing on the Duke-Durham Regional merger, held in a black church, city councilman Howard Clement, an African American, voiced a widely shared concern when he stood up and asked, "Can we trust Duke?" It was, and is, the big question, Clement believes, "and the jury is still...
...people of color in Durham, Duke is more than just the hospital; it is "a white university hidebound by Southern tradition," as Clement puts it. Like most members of the town's minority community, Clement never wanted to go to Duke Hospital because it was viewed as a place where "they experimented on you." In 1968, when he was badly bruised in a head-on car collision, Clement screamed at the ambulance driver, "Don't take me to Duke! I don't want to go to Duke...
Terry Sanford, Duke University's president from 1969 to 1982, tried to build bridges between town and gown. He was the first Duke president to go to city hall, and on Sunday mornings he 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...