Return to the Pitch
Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
Two meniscus tears. Five months. It took a team effort to get soccer player Brooke Dawahare back on her feet—and back on the pitch.
Read Brooke’s StoryWhen it Comes to Your Hospital,
What Matters Most to You?
Where You Know You’ll Get
The Best Care Possible
- Ranked #1 in Kentucky for the ninth year in a row
- Six nationally ranked specialties for children and adults
- 14 high-performing specialities, procedures and conditions
- 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.
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 ExpertLife-Changing Care
This is where Kentuckians turn to the experts—and where worry turns to relief.
Read Patient Stories
“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
“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
“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
Big Daddy’s Second Chance
Gill Heart & Vascular Institute
Joshua “Big Daddy” Taylor was only 27 when he came down with a case of strep throat that led to a life-threatening heart disease. It took ten years and an extraordinary team to save his life.
Read Joshua’s StoryWhy Choose an
Academic Health System?
UK HealthCare is an academic health system—which means the best possible care for you and your family, with state-of-the-art facilities, clinics, and expertise across the Commonwealth.
- A statewide network of clinics and experts
- 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