UK receives national recognition for outstanding oncology program

By Lilli Dubler, Building Kentucky The University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital is one of the nation’s top “Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs,” according to Becker’s Hospital Review. The health care industry trade publication recognized the UK Markey Cancer Center, whose clinical programs are integrated with UK’s Chandler Hospital, among oncology […]

UK HealthCare opens the Commonwealth’s first psychiatric emergency unit

By Lilli Dubler, Building Kentucky On Tuesday, July 30, community and state leaders joined UK HealthCare officials to celebrate the opening of a new emergency unit dedicated to treating patients experiencing a mental health crisis. The unit, on the Eastern State Hospital campus in Lexington, is known as EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing) […]