Mission of the University of Kentucky
Academic Medical Center

Mission
The mission of the University of Kentucky Academic Medical Center is to help people of the commonwealth and beyond to gain and retain good health through creative leadership and quality initiatives in education, research and service.

Vision
To be a top-20 academic health center recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in teaching, research and patient care.

Critical Success Factors and their Measures
Critical Success Factors are the goals we have developed to help us achieve our vision and mission at  the University of Kentucky Academic Medical Center. For the Medical Center to achieve its vision, and remain patient centered and student oriented, we must:

1.       Improve academic and clinical access by attracting, and being good stewards of, financial resources

·     To raise $234,000,000 in private funding over the next five years.

·     Increase extramural funding by 5 percent each year for the next five years

·     Maintain a 4 percent margin for reinvestment in clinical programs

·     Increase market share in three clinical products by 10 percent 

2.       Exceed patient and customer expectations

·     Increase satisfaction of students, patients, employees and referring practitioners by appropriate surveys

·     Increase retention of existing UK Health Care patients by 2 percent annually

·     Perform above University Health Consortium benchmark in clinical outcomes in three areas

 3.      Recruit and graduate outstanding students

·     Each college will determine the most appropriate measure for itself.

4.      Attract, develop and retain high caliber faculty and staff

·     Increase staff participation in personal and professional development programs by 5 percent annually

·     Increase faculty recognition, nationally and internationally by 2 percent annually

5.      Develop an infrastructure that will support a top 20 research program

·     Increase research space by 50 percent over five years

·     Establish and fully fund $100,000,000 research endowment over five years

·     Increase the number of research applications by 50 percent over five years 

6.   Create, and effectively utilize, information technology to support a top-20 academic health center

·     Increase the number of clinicians to 50 percent who are utilizing information technology to access clinical information

·     Increase the use of information technology in the Medical Center by 10 percent each year

• Service

• Continuous Improvement

• Trust

• Teamwork

• Discovery/Innovation

• Accountability