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.
Our mission is to help people of the Commonwealth and beyond gain and retain good health through creative leadership and quality initiatives in health education, medical research and patient care services.
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 http://www.uky.edu/Home/2003-06StrategicPlan/plan.html.
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