Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Establishing an HMO, WellPath, with N.Y. Life, which puts Duke again in the position of setting the fees it will receive in an intensely competitive environment...
...Remaining nonprofit. As such, the Duke University Health System's 4% return is plowed back into the medical center rather than being paid out in dividends to shareholders...
...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...
...doctors got over that hurdle, there is the fact that it would all cost about $1 million, most of which Duke would pay out of its pocket. Christopher's medical care has already cost $192,500, of which Medicaid will reimburse only about $81,000. When money is tight, research crucial and hard to pay for, and there are many children to save, is this the best use of resources...