Duke Hospital South Planning Collection, 1979-1982

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Medical Center.
Abstract:
James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment in 1924. The endowment provided funds to form Duke's School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. Duke North opened in 1980 and was connected the older hospital, referred to as the South division, through a personnel rapid transit system (PRT). Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, floorplans, charts, reports, articles, notes, and surveys. Materials range in date from 1979 to 1982 but the bulk of the material is undated.
Extent:
5.5 Linear Feet (3 cartons, 2 manuscript boxes)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
AR.0029

Background

Scope and content:

Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, floorplans, charts, reports, articles, notes, and surveys. Materials range in date from 1979 to 1982 but the bulk of the material is undated.

Biographical / historical:

James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment in 1924. The endowment provided funds to form Duke's School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. The first patient to Duke Hospital was admitted on July 21, 1930. At that time, the hospital had 549 beds and 55 bassinets. In 1957, the hospital opened a new seven-story addition that helped make Duke Hospital the second largest private general hospital in the South. The new addition included clinic areas, operating rooms, wards, laboratories, and 109 new beds. A new hospital, the North division, opened in 1980 and connected to the previous hospital, the South division, through a personnel rapid transit system (PRT). The Children's Health Center opened in 2000, and the Duke Cancer Center opened in 2012. Duke University Hospital expanded in 2013 with the opening eighth-floor of the Duke Medicine Pavilion.

Acquisition information:
Source unknown
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: date unknown

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Planning Documents, undated; Records, 1979-1982.
Fileplan:

HC 43

Subjects

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Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. Medical Center.
Duke University. Hospital
Topical Term(s):
Hospital Design and Construction.
Hospital Planning.

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Contains Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).

Terms of access:

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Duke Hospital South Collection, Duke University Medical Center Archives.