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The Emergency Medicine residency program is based at the 476-bed University of Kentucky Hospital. The UK Hospital provides clinical service to all 120 counties of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and maintains 34,000 admissions annually. The hospital is an American College of Surgeons designated Level 1 Adult/Pediatric Trauma Center. With 24 % of its beds dedicated to critical care, a six-floor Critical Care Center and a new 1,000,000 square foot hospital scheduled to open in May 2011, the UK Albert B. Chandler Medical Center leads the state in its commitment to providing acute and intensive care The new “state of the art” UKED opened in July 2010 with 40,000 square feet of clinical space hosting 65 beds, 2 CT scanners in the ED, and a dedicated pediatric ED, The McKenna David Pediatric Emergency Center. The anticipated annual volume of the new ED is 60,000 visits per year. Tour the architectural rendering here.
The Emergency Department is staffed by physicians, nurses and other ancillary professionals to provide a level of care, and caring, that are tailored to provide outstanding service to every patient. The Emergency Department currently has 50 hours of Emergency Medicine faculty physician coverage each day, and has access to all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties to treat the wide variety of problems encountered daily.
The Emergency Department completed a large expansion project two years ago. We have enhanced communication in the department through a radio frequency communication system (Vocera) that links all the health care professionals to each other by a touch of a button. EM faculty and residents provide procedural sedation to many adult and pediatric patients in the ED. We have developed a dedicated pediatric unit to meet the needs of ever expanding pediatric patient volume. An attached Express Care Unit provides more timely care to the lower acuity patients who present.
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