UK Healthcare Leadership:
The
Office
of the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Dr. Michael Karpf, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, and the leadership of UK HealthCare are committed to supporting the vision for the University of Kentucky to become a top 20 public research university. UK HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the University of Kentucky, supports that vision by aspiring to become a top 20 academic medical center. Through the leadership of our physician faculty and dedicated staff we are committed to being the leading provider of advanced specialty care in the region and to being Kentucky's health information resource.
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UK HealthCare is committed to the pillars of academic health care—research, education and clinical care. Dedicated to the health of the people of Kentucky, we will provide the most advanced patient care and serve as an information resource. We will strengthen local health care and improve the delivery system by partnering with community hospitals and physicians. We will support the organization's education and research needs by offering cutting edge services on par with the nation's best providers.
Medical Center faculty:
approx. 1,000 (full-and-part-time)
Medical Center staff:
over 6,000 (full-and-part-time)
UK Hospital attending physicians:
630
UK Hospital residents:
approximately 500
UK Hospital and UK Children's Hospital 2005 annual discharges:
22,269
UK Hospital Emergency Department 2005 annual visits:
42,909
UK Hospital annual outpatient visits in 2005:
266,245
All Kentucky Clinics annual visits:
1,082,334
Total service area population:
1,723,065 individuals (2005 projected)
For more information, contact UK HealthCare Public Relations at (859) 323-6363.
The UK Strategic Plan, Vision, Mission,
and Values statements are located at
University of Kentucky 2003-06 Strategic Plan
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