Duke Medicine

Initiative To Improve Durham Kids' Mental Health Care

Isaac-Davy Aronson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Duke Medicine is leading a collaboration with the Durham public schools and local agencies to develop better-integrated mental health care for children. Helen Egger is a child psychiatrist at Duke and leads the initiative. She says too often kids with psychiatric disorders are shuffled between schools, hospitals, and law enforcement- each addressing the problems on their own terms. Egger wants to develop school-based models that can fill in the gaps between services.

Meet Adam Perlman

Frank Stasio and Susan Davis — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Duke Integrative Medicine provides holistic health care based on the best practices of traditional Western medicine as well as fundamental aspects of health like nutrition, exercise, spiritual practice, personal and professional development and environmental safety.

Duke Cancer Center Opens

Eric Hodge — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Cancer patients across the state have a new place to go for treatment. After a week of dedications and tours, the Duke Cancer Center opens to patients Monday. Doctor Michael Kastan is the Executive Director of the Duke Cancer Institute. He says the state-of-the-art seven story building unites a large number of specialists under one roof.

Medicare Releases Rates For Hospital Acquired Complications

Rose Hoban — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:45:00 +0000

New data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services shows some higher complication rates than average at several area hospitals.

The new online data base at the Medicare website shows rates for eight so-called 'never' events. Those are complications Medicare officials believe should never happen in hospitals. Those incidents include patients developing bedsores, or doctors leaving objects inside their surgical patients. Medicare has stopped reimbursing hospitals for many of these hospital acquired complications.