When it Comes to Your Hospital,
What Matters Most to You?

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 eighth year in a row
  • Six 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

At The Top Of Their Field.
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

This is where the highest-trained doctors put their expertise to work.

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

Life-Changing Care

This is where Kentuckians turn to the experts—and where worry turns to relief.

Read Patient Stories
Coach Cal lifts two 20lb dumbbells at the UK gym
Bill gestures while chatting to a friend.
Charlie, a two year old boy with curly hair, sits on a swing outside his parent's house.
Ronnie stands in his lab coat in front of shelves packed with medicine bottles.
Angela wears a bright pink blouse and smiles for a photo outside.

Not All Hospitals
are Created Equal

UK HealthCare is an academic health system—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