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Duke University: Duke University Hospital
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In 1924, Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, established The Duke Endowment with a $40 million ($434 million in 2005 dollars) trust fund. The annual income of the fund was to be distributed to hospitals, orphanages, the Methodist Church, three colleges, and Trinity College. William Preston Few, the president of Trinity College, insisted that the university be named Duke University, and James B. Duke agreed that it would be a memorial to his father. Money from the endowment allowed the University to grow quickly. Duke's original campus (East Campus) was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. By 1930, the majority of the Gothic style buildings on the campus one mile west were completed, and construction on West Campus culminated with the completion of Duke Chapel in 1935.[6]
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Duke University Hospital is recognized around the world as a premier healthcare institution. Diversity is a critical value and a high priority business strategy. View the video presentation outlining the importance of diversity at Duke:
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The Department of Medicine is the largest department at Duke with over 1,300 faculty, staff and support staff in 14 different divisions. The Department of Medicine utilizes 335 beds in Duke University Hospital and administers three critical care units: the Cardiac Care Unit, the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and the Medical Intensive Care Unit. The physicians of the Department of Medicine evaluate and treat more than 200,000 outpatients each year. The Department provides comprehensive consultative services in all specialty and subspecialty areas of medicine and has a growing number of primary care physicians.
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