DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER

Every day at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center, we meet brave children and their families who are in need of hope, answers-and, above all, care. For us, meeting the needs of these children and families serves as the driving force behind every one of our missions from critical care and laboratory research to medical education and children's health advocacy.

Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center is dedicated to providing the best possible care for the patients and families we serve today and discovering treatments that will enhance the health care of future generations.

We are committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do. Most importantly, we consistently strive to make the patient experience a model of quality care through advanced treatment, compassionate support, and full family participation and communication.

We also set the highest standard possible for training pediatric health care professionals by offering innovative curricula and learning systems to enhance trainees' learning and development.

Our specialty outreach services include a cardiology telemedicine program, which links Duke pediatric cardiologists with caregivers at community hospitals in North Carolina and Virginia; a collaborative center created by Duke Children's and other local universities that provides medical and mental health services for abused children and raises awareness about child abuse and neglect; and the Duke children's pediatric HIV clinic, which has cared for hundreds of HIV-infected or -exposed infants throughout the region since 1986.

As one of the largest charity health care providers for children in the Southeast, Duke Children's brings care directly to those who are often overlooked.