The mission of the Duke Emergency Department is to provide timely, compassionate, and state-of-the-art emergency care for patients and their families. Our mission is to:
- Role model success by being a united leadership team in a way that supports and encourages an honest, collaborative, innovative, and respectful patient centered environment
- Provide immediate treatment of acutely ill or injured patients
- Develop an appropriate and cost effective plan of care for patients, with input from a collaborative, multidisciplinary team so that care to patients and their families is timely and evidence based
- Assess and provide analgesia to patients requiring pain control management
- Provide patient focused and family centered care with an emphasis upon restoring stability and preventing complications.
- Provide an environment of care that is safe, respectful, and conducive to patient and family health and well-being
Michael B. Hocker, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP
Chief, Emergency Medicine
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