The Millennium Hotel, Durham, has been appointed the exclusive hotel by the Duke University Health System to provide special accommodations for patients and their families staying overnight in Durham. The partnership is designed to make patients’ families feel more at home by providing services such as transportation and special accommodations.
“We are very pleased to collaborate more closely with Duke University Health System, sharing our expertise in hospitality to make a patient or family’s stay more comfortable,” said David Truesdale, general manager for the Millennium Hotel, Durham. “This is a very necessary service that we are uniquely prepared to provide to our community and the hospital’s patients.”
The Millennium Hotel, Durham, is ideally located for patients and their families, just minutes from the Duke University Medical Center. In addition to its oversized guest rooms, indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi, full service restaurant, and local and airport shuttle service, the hotel will offer rooms with refrigerators and microwaves that are sought after by patients and their families who have an extended stay at the Durham Medical Center. Moreover, the hotel is providing transfers as needed between the Medical Center and the hotel.
The Duke University Medical Center is a major tertiary care center for the Southeast and a primary care hospital for the community of Durham and surrounding areas. Thousands of physicians, nurses and professional support staff are dedicated to providing the most advanced patient care as well as educating young professionals. Their pursuit of excellence has helped Duke achieve national acclaim for its hospital and school of medicine. The Duke University Medical Center is also the youngest of the nation's leading medical centers and the hub of the Duke University Health System, a world-class health care network providing outstanding patient care, educating tomorrow's health care leaders and discovering new and better ways to treat disease through biomedical research. In 2004, the U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke University Medical Center as the sixth best hospital in America.
About the Millennium Hotel, Durham
The 315-room Millennium Hotel, Durham, is located only minutes from Duke University and the Medical Center and is also nearby the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, downtown Durham and Research Triangle Park. Highlights of the property include Bel Gusto’s Italian restaurant with outdoor dining patio, a heated indoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sundeck and more than 16,000 square feet of meeting space, encompassing two ballrooms, eight conference suites and an executive boardroom. The hotel also provides high-speed Internet access and wireless access.
About Millennium Hotels and Resorts
Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR), established in the United States in 2000, is the North American arm of London-based Millennium and Copthorne Hotels plc (MLC). The MHR portfolio includes 19 holdings in The Americas, and the company operates properties including: Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York; Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York; Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles; Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, Chicago; Millennium Bostonian Hotel, Boston; Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis; Millennium Hotel, St. Louis; Millennium Hotel, Cincinnati; Millennium Harvest House, Boulder; Millennium Hotel, Durham; Millennium Alaskan Hotel, Anchorage; Millennium Resort, Scottsdale, McCormick Ranch; the Millennium Maxwell House, Nashville; and the Royal Palm Resort, Galapagos Islands. MLC holdings outside of the Millennium brand include the Millennium Hilton (New York) and Sheraton Four Points Sunnyvale (California). For further information on Millennium Hotels and Resorts, call 866-866-8086 or visit www.millenniumhotels.com.
Millennium and Copthorne Hotels comprises 90 four and five star hotels with 25,125 rooms worldwide in 17 countries. Our World of Hospitality marketing alliance partner Maritim Hotels has 45 hotels with 12,477 rooms in 6 countries. For more information please visit www.millenniumhotels.com or www.maritim.com.
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