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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...
...them where we can, or we kiss them goodbye." So Duke goes out to Lumberton and Laurinburg, screens patients and transfers the sicker ones back to Duke, where they or their insurers will pay for them to get well. Duke also collaborates with community organizations in other cost-saving joint ventures, such as a child-abuse-prevention center, a teenage-pregnancy-prevention program and safe-kids fairs...
...ultimate test of Duke's affiliations and joint ventures is how patients in the communities it moves into feel about the care they receive. Angela Baldwin says Lincoln Community did a good job on Tyrece, and she plans to come back. That's good news for Duke, because even when hospitals buy each other up in big-dollar deals, medical practices are built one patient at a time...
...meetings with world leaders, Abdullah has been signaling that he intends for his country to play a more assertive foreign role. Saudi Arabia wants to interest itself in the frequently faltering Arab-Israeli peace talks--and not necessarily to the delight of American policymakers. In drafting a joint communique two weeks ago, Abdullah insisted on making a symbolic point about Arab rights in Jerusalem...
...most cases, yes. Lots of us want to be lawyers, doctors, millionaire business tycoons. But a small minority on campus--approximately 40 students in all--are enrolled in a joint program between the College and the Graduate School of Education (GSE) entitled the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP). Students divide their coursework between their College concentration and education requirements at the GSE, including classes on child psychology and teaching in secondary schools. They finish the program by actually student-teaching in the Boston area for a semester. When they graduate, they have enough credits to apply for certification to teach...