Facilities

Our med-peds program has the benefit of working in a very diverse environment. As part of the UK Healthcare inpatient experience, residents rotate through both the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center and the University of Kentucky Good Samaritan Hospital. The Chandler Medical Center is a tertiary care inpatient facility whereas the Good Samaritan Hospital provides advanced general internal medicine care. This provides a very diverse experience from managing the range of problems from the basic to the most complex. Last, our residents also rotate through the Veterans Administration Medical Center, which is on the same campus as the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. The VAMC provides care for our armed services veterans throughout the state of Kentucky.

The clinical facilities at the University of Kentucky represent, modern, attractive, state-of-the-art units all contiguously located on the University campus (see map).

University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center

Opened in 1962, UK Chandler Hospital, now a 473-bed academic medical center, is part of the UK HealthCare patient care enterprise. Integral components of the comprehensive services UK Chandler Hospital provides are:

UK Hospital has Central and Eastern Kentucky's only Level I trauma center. UK Hospital handles the most severe traumas and has the only Level III neonatal intensive care unit in the area to treat the sickest infants. Kentucky Children's Hospital also offers a 100-bed intensive care unit, post-anesthesia care unit, 17 operating rooms, 14-bed labor hall, and 26 mother-baby units. The hospital draws upon the resources of six UK colleges: Health Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health

From the immediately surrounding metropolitan area as well as more distant areas of the region come patients with a variety of both common and rare conditions requiring the latest in medical care. The Medical Center serves not only Lexington and the central Kentucky area, but also provides care for patients throughout the eastern half of Kentucky, and from West Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. For many of these patients our residents provide both primary and tertiary care.

Set to open in 2011 the new UK AB Chandler Hospital will provide Kentucky with a state-of-the-art patient-centered facility staffed by nationally recognized experts in specialty and sub-specialty care.

For more details about the new University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, please see: http://www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu/pdfs/UKHC_case_study11-07.pdf

Kentucky Children's Hospital

Kentucky Children's Hospital is located within UK Hospital on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Kentucky. The Children's Hospital is a hospital within a hospital, which means that it shares many of UK Hospital's services and facilities. However, as the only children's hospital in the region, Kentucky Children's Hospital is able to treat the most critically ill children, as well as those with less severe illness or injury. With pediatric specialists for every system of the body, we are able to provide comprehensive care for all ages from infants through adolescents.

The Lexington Veterans Administration Medical Center

The VA Medical Center and the UK Medical Center are connected and function effectively as a single hospital from the perspective of both faculty and residents. The VAMC is a 107-bed facility in which 3,753 Internal Medicine patients are hospitalized yearly. The facility includes a modern Intensive Care Unit and Coronary Care Unit and a 14-bed Telemetry Care Unit, in addition to 5 optional telemetry beds on the general Internal Medicine service. Besides full clinical laboratory and radiology services, the VAMC has its own nuclear medicine, computerized tomographic (CT), and MRI services. The proximity to UKMC permits easy access for VAMC inpatients to a variety of services at UK. In a modern outpatient facility, which opened in 1989, residents in Internal Medicine see patients in both subspecialty and continuity clinics at the VAMC.

Good Samaritan Hospital

UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital is an acute care facility with 302 beds which prides itself on providing exceptional patient-focused care in a community-hospital atmosphere. Founded in 1888, the hospital was acquired by UK HealthCare in July 2007. It is home to the second-largest orthopedic and joint replacement program in Kentucky, and is able to offer a broad range of health care services to meet the needs of the residents of central and eastern Kentucky.

The Gill Heart Institute

The Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute is a state-of-the-art cardiac center which opened in April 2004. Dr. David Moliterno, an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist, leads the Division of Cardiology and serves as co-director of the Gill Heart Institute. The five-story building houses outpatient and non-invasive cardiac procedure clinics, cardiac catheterization suites for inpatient and outpatient treatment, electrophysiology laboratories and faculty offices.

The Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center

The Markey Cancer Center (MCC) opened in 1986. Approximately 2,100 patients annually are admitted with medical and surgical oncological problems. In addition, bone marrow transplant patients are managed on a special unit within the Center. Dr. Kevin McDonagh was recently recruited as Division Chief, along with two other new key senior faculty - Dr. Robert Means and Dr. John Reinhart - to lead the expanded research and clinical programs in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and the Markey Cancer Center.

The Kentucky Clinic

Also connected to the University Hospital, the Kentucky Clinic is where outpatient primary care as well as subspecialty consultative services are provided to our patients. Annually, 21,201 visits occur in General Internal Medicine or subspecialty clinics at the Kentucky Clinic. The total number of clinic visits for all specialties is 284,118. In this setting, residents see patients in their continuity clinics as well as in subspecialties during their elective rotations.