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| Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center's mission is to provide excellence in the clinical care of infants and children, innovation in basic and applied research, leadership in the education of health professionals and advocacy for children's health. |
| Total beds: |
149 |
| Annual admissions to the hospital: |
6,949 |
| Average length of stay: |
9.11 days |
| Annual outpatient visits: |
176,000 |
| Pediatric Emergency Treatment Center visits: |
13,579 |
| Surgical cases: |
4,778 |
| Regional outreach programs: |
33 |
| Non-reimbursed care provided last year: |
$48 million |
| Annual pediatric research studies: |
150 |
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| Approximately 92 percent of the children treated at Duke Children's are from North Carolina and eight percent travel to Duke from across the southeast and around the world. |
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