About Kentucky Children's Hospital
At Kentucky Children's Hospital, our dedicated staff
and our advanced technology work hand-in-hand to serve you.
As
an integral part of UK HealthCare, Kentucky
Children's Hospital consolidates our extensive array of comprehensive
pediatric services under one roof.
The Kentucky Children's Hospital includes:
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12-bed
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
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50 bed NICU organized in a modular format
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44
acute care (non-ICU) rooms, 85% of these being private
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26
bed normal
newborn nursery
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8-10 beds devoted to
23 hour admissions/observation
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children's playrooms
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expanded
family consultation and waiting
rooms
The Kentucky Clinic for ambulatory care services opened in the summer
of 1992. Pediatric outpatient facilities are now located primarily
within this building and our clinic facilities were further expanded
in June 1996. In addition, many pediatric patients are seen in the
UK Hospital's Emergency Department each year.
Each year, the pediatric
clinic has over 46,000 patient visits. Of these, over 15,300 patient
visits are in the general pediatric
and continuity clinics, over
17,400 occur in the various subspecialty clinics, over 10,200 occur in
the private practice clinic, and over 3,400 patients are seen in the
Twilight Clinic.
Subspecialty
clinics held on a regular basis include allergy, behavioral/psychosocial
pediatrics, cardiology, developmental pediatrics, endocrinology-metabolism,
gastroenterology,
genetics/dysmorphology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, neonatal
follow-up, nephrology, and pulmonology.
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