- 489 bed facility opened in 1962
- Level I trauma center
- Leading tertiary care center in region
- Aeromedical service
- >25% of beds are critical care:
- Cardiothoracic, Trauma, Medicine, Cardiac, Neurosurgical, Burn, Surgical, Neonatal, Pediatric
- Other care areas
- UK Good Samaritan Hospital
- Markey Cancer Center
- Kentucky Neuroscience Institute
- Gill Heart Institute
- Transplant Center
- Blood / Marrow, Stem Cell, Heart, Lung, Heart / Lung, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Kidney / Pancreas, Cornea
- Personnel
- 630 faculty physicians and dentists
- 500 resident physicians
- 3200 healthcare professionals
- 64,000 sq. ft. facility with 104 beds
- 55 bed level III NICU
- 12 bed PICU
- 20 specialties
- Private rooms
- Parent accommodations
- Child life services
- Play rooms, library, and classrooms
Kentucky Clinic
- UK's largest outpatient referral center
- Full range of services, including
- Pharmacy
- Physical therapy
- Radiology
- Laboratory
- Student health
- Outpatient Pharmacy serving the community
- >800 prescriptions/day
- Pharmacy firsts:
- 1962: First Drug Information Center
- 1962: First unit dose service
- 1969: Clinical pharmacists in patient care areas
- 1972: First central pharmacy to computerize records
- Past and Current Pharmacy Directors:
- 1962 - 1984: Paul F. Parker, D.Sc.
- 1984 - 1989: Clifford E. Hynniman, MS, RPh
- 1989 - 1998: Mick L. Hunt, MS, RPh, FASHP
- 1999 - current: John A. Armitstead, MS, RPh, FASHP
