Extraordinary Care is Right Here

Where You Know You’ll Get
The Best Care Possible

Year after year, our team continues to be recognized for their extraordinary work. But our greatest honor is the trust our patients and their families place in us, every day.

Best Regional Hospitals U.S. News & World Report Bluegrass Region Recognized in 15 Types of Care 2021-22
  • Ranked #1 in Kentucky for the sixth year in a row
  • Three nationally ranked specialties for children and adults
  • 14 high-performing specialities, procedures and conditions
Magnet Recognized - American Nurses Credentialing Center
  • Our nursing care continues to achieve prestigious Magnet status
  • The highest institutional honor for nursing excellence
  • Less than 10 percent of U.S. hospitals currently have Magnet status

World-Renowned Experts,
Right Down the Street

An Asian, male, doctor stands with hand on his hip in an operating room. A monitor with brain scans is in the background with other medical equipments and overhead lights.

Access to the best-of-the-best

The most highly-trained doctors, working together for your care.

Nursing excellence

An award-winning nursing staff dedicated to you and your family.

The latest treatments

In-house researchers make the treatments of the future available sooner.

State-of-the-art facilities

Every room and every clinic is designed from the ground up to give you the most advanced care.

Personalized specialty care

With 82 specialities, you’ll be treated by the absolute experts in your specific health need or condition.

Find An Expert

The Specialists You Need,
For Every Need

This is where Kentuckians come for answers, treatments, options and breakthroughs — the expert care that only happens here. Our patients are proof.

Read Their Stories
Coach Cal lifts two 20lb dumbbells at the UK gym

"You better come here and get an opinion"

Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine

Coach Cal had been dealing with hip pain for years. But when that pain finally got in the way of doing his job, he trusted the experts at UK HealthCare for the hip replacement he needed.

Read Coach Cal's Story
Coach Cal lifts two 20lb dumbbells at the UK gym

“A new lease on life”

Kentucky Neuroscience Institute

As Bill Crawford's Parkinson's progressed, he thought he'd never be able to play guitar again. But thanks to a groundbreaking treatment developed at UK HealthCare, Bill's tremors disappeared — and he was able to return to the music he loved.

Read Bill's Story
Charlie, a two year old boy with curly hair, sits on a swing outside his parent's house.

“Everybody loves Charlie”

Kentucky Children's Hospital

Everybody thought one-year-old Charlie had asthma. It wasn't until his parents brought him to Kentucky Children's Hospital that they learned he had a rare heart condition — and found the surgeon with the exact experience to treat it.

Read Charlie's Story
Ronnie stands in his lab coat in front of shelves packed with medicine bottles.

“If you have symptoms, don’t ignore them”

Markey Cancer Center

When Ronnie Wu was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer at only 27 years old, it took an interdisciplinary team, a multi-stage plan, and a complex surgery to save his life. He found it all at UK HealthCare.

Read Ronnie's Story
Angela wears a bright pink blouse and smiles for a photo outside.

“They just kept digging. They didn’t stop.”

Gill Heart & Vascular Institute

Angela King had already seen 14 other doctors. None of them could figure out why her hand was turning purple and going numb. It took a team of experts at UK HealthCare to diagnose the real issue — and save her hand, and her life.

Read Angela's Story

Not All Hospitals
are Created Equal

UK HealthCare is an academic medical center—which means the best possible care for you and your family, at a state-of-the-art facility right here in Lexington.

UK HealthCare

  • General, specialized and complex care
  • Wide range of in-house specialties and specialists
  • Has a dedicated children's hospital
  • Writes medical protocols for the state
  • Earliest access to new treatments and technology
  • On-site researchers

Other Community Hospitals

  • General and some specialty care
  • Refer to UK HealthCare for specialty care
  • Provides general care, regardless of age
  • Follow state medical protocols
  • Later access to new treatments
  • No in-house research