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UK HealthCare

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Industry
  
Health care

Area served
  
Kentucky

Founded
  
1957

UK HealthCare

Type
  
Private (not-for-profit)

Headquarters
  
800 Rose Street Lexington, Kentucky

Key people
  
Director Dr. Michael Karpf

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.

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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: The 569-bed medical facility includes numerous components to the University of Kentucky medical system. A new patient care facility is currently under construction.
  • Eastern State Hospital
  • 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.

    • References

    UK HealthCare Wikipedia
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