UK HealthCare

UK HealthCare is the health care system that is based on the campus of the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington, Kentucky. It consists of the university's hospitals, clinics, outreach locations, and patient care services along with UKs health profession colleges.

UK HealthCare

Type	Private (not-for-profit)
Industry	Health care
Founded	1957
Headquarters	800 Rose Street Lexington, Kentucky
Area served	Kentucky
Key people	Executive VP for Health Affairs Dr. Mark Newman
Services	Tertiary Level Clinical Care Rehabilitation Cancer Centers Community Medical Facilities Retirement & Long-term Care Research Health Care Education Medical Information Technology
Website	ukhealthcare.uky.edu

Colleges

• College of Dentistry
• College of Health Sciences
• College of Medicine
• College of Nursing
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Public Health

Hospitals

 

Albert B. Chandler Hospital

 

Biological-Pharmaceutical Building

 

King's Daughters Medical Center

• Albert B. Chandler Hospital: The 945 bed medical facility is UK HealthCare's flagship facility and includes numerous components to the University of Kentucky medical system. A new patient care facility is currently under construction.
• Eastern State Hospital: This 239 bed psychiatric hospital is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky and operated by UK HealthCare since 2014 under a $43 million contract with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.^[1]
• Good Samaritan Hospital
• Kentucky Children's Hospital
• King's Daughters Medical Center: A 465 bed medical facility in Ashland that was purchased by the University of Kentucky in December 2022.^[2][3]

Clinics and centers

• Student Health Facility: This building houses University Health Services.
• Center for Advanced Surgery
• Centers of Excellence: This includes the Centers for Rural Health, Critical Care Centers, the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging among numerous other units.
• Gill Heart Institute: This houses clinics, diagnostic areas, six Cath and EP laboratories and numerous offices. It is the home of the University of Kentucky Hospital Center for Advanced Surgery.
• Kentucky Clinic
• Kentucky Neuroscience Institute
• Markey Cancer Center

Academic buildings

• Biomedical Biological Science Research Building: This features workstations for laboratory technical staffing, offices, animal care areas, central autoclave facilities, centrifuge rooms, cold rooms and tissue and cell culture facilities for the College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, and College of Arts and Sciences.
• Charles T. Wethington Jr. Building: This features numerous classrooms, offices and teaching laboratories for the College of Health Sciences.
• Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building: This building has housed the College of Pharmacy since 2010.^[4]

References

1. Blackford, Linda (January 18, 2013). "UK HealthCare plans to take over Eastern State Hospital". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved January 28, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
2. UK Board of Trustees approves moving forward with King’s Daughters deal
3. King’s Daughters officially becomes part of UK
4. Alessi, Ryan (January 26, 2010). "UK's new pharmacy building dedicated". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-11-24.

External links

• University of Kentucky Medical Center Oral History Collection at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History

Coordinates: 38°01′52″N 84°30′27″W / 38.0312°N 84.5074°W / 38.0312; -84.5074