It is consistently ranked among the top ten health care organizations in the United States.

In fiscal year 2016, Duke University Hospital admitted 41,408 patients and had 1,119,151 outpatient visits.

In 1936, Julian Deryl Hart, a Duke surgeon introduced ultraviolet lights in the operating rooms to kill airborne germs.

In 1969, the first recorded studies of human's abilities to function and work at pressures equal to a 1,000-foot (300 m) deep sea dive were conducted.

[3] In the 1990s, Duke geneticists invented a three-minute test to screen newborns for over 30 metabolic diseases at once.

The McGovern-Davison Children's Health Center, housed within the hospital, provides outpatient care in more than 28 pediatric medical and surgical specialties.

[4] Duke Regional Hospital (DRH) provides inpatient, outpatient, surgical and emergency care and features a level II intensive care nursery, Durham Regional Rehabilitation Institute and the Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center.

In fiscal year 2016, Duke Regional Hospital admitted 15,792 patients and had 123,234 outpatient visits.

In 1998, an agreement with Duke University Health System was signed and the two officially began a 20-year partnership.

Fox it was later renamed Raleigh Community Hospital and, in 1978, moved to the current Wake Forest Road location.