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.
| 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
Hospitals
Albert B. Chandler Hospital
Biological-Pharmaceutical Building
- 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
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.[2]
References
- Blackford, Linda (January 18, 2013). "UK HealthCare plans to take over Eastern State Hospital". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- Alessi, Ryan (January 26, 2010). "UK's new pharmacy building dedicated". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
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