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Chief: Michael B. Hocker, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP

A tertiary care center and Level I Trauma Center, Duke's Emergency Department provides cutting edge medical care to North Carolina and surrounding area ranging as far as Virginia and South Carolina. The ED is staffed continuously by attending emergency physicians certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine to treat adult and pediatric patients.

Duke’s Emergency Department has been providing care to patients since 1945 and with a new state of the art and expanded facility which opened in April 2007, the ED is now equipped to treat over 90,000 patients a year.

The new ED includes:

Pediatric ED – an 18 bed, full service Pediatric Emergency Department that includes two critical care and isolation rooms for children with infectious diseases.
Three adult care areas – providing care and services for patients requiring general care, critical care, or isolations needs. Each room has its own laboratory space and nursing stations.
Patient rooms (adult and pediatric) equipped with a computer making it easier for physicians to enter orders, look up medical histories, and provide the highest level of patient care and safety.
Two fully equipped x-ray rooms and dedicated CT scanner.
New 7,000 square foot ambulance bay with upgraded provisions for disaster planning, decontamination showers, and mass casualty management.
Eight bed Psychiatric Emergency Unit
Fourteen bed Clinical Evaluation (Observation) Unit with dedicated stress test room.

Duke’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program is committed to training the next generation of outstanding emergency physicians. The residents in training learn from faculty who are nationally and internationally known in their fields for patient care, education, and research.

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