Quality & Safety
WHAT QUALITY AND SAFETY MEAN
TO US
Our goal is to provide both measures for which external agencies hold us accountable as well as measures that show how we are performing in key components of quality: survival, quality of care, patient safety, efficient care and patient centeredness.
We are presenting this information as accurately as possible: We are not creating any new measures or changing the scale, format or target to make ourselves look better or worse. And we’ll be clear about what’s good and what isn’t.
Why make this information public? Because we believe that our patients have the right to understand the quality of care we provide, what we are doing well and where we need to do better. We may not always look good, but it is our belief that honesty, and an honest effort to improve when and where we need to, makes for better care.
Please note that the numbers shown do not take into account that different hospitals treat different sorts of patients. A community hospital such as UK Good Samaritan, for instance, tends to treat patients who are less sick, while academic medical centers such as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital treat the most severely ill and injured patients. For this reason, these numbers should not be used to compare one hospital to another.
Read our quality data below. Please feel free to contact us if you have questions about any of the information you find here.
OUR
PHILOSOPHY
- We are not creating any new measures.
- We will not change the scale/format/target to make ourselves look better or worse.
- We will be clear about what is good or bad.
- We may not always look good.
OUR MISSION &
VISION
Mission: UK HealthCare is committed to the pillars of academic health care—research, education and clinical care. Dedicated to the health of the people of Kentucky, we will provide the most advanced patient care and serve as an information resource. We will strengthen local health care and improve the delivery system by partnering with community hospitals and physicians. We will support the organization’s education and research needs by offering cutting edge services on par with the nation’s best providers.
Vision: One community committed to creating a healthier Kentucky.
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NEWS &
EVENTS
- Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Surveillance System Report Sheds New Light on Drug Overdose Circumstances
- UK Study Shows Cell Signaling Interaction May Prevent Key Step in Lung Cancer Progression
- Mays Receives American Public Health Association's Excellence in Health Administration Award
- Plant-Based Diet May Prevent Many Diseases
- Markey Joins Personalized Medicine Consortium to Speed Advances in Patient Care
- UK Center for Health Services Research Collaborates with Health Departments to Study Injection Drug Use
- When it Comes to Strokes, Timing is Everything
- Diagnosing and Treating Compartment Syndrome in Athletes
- Sports Concussions: What About the Jockeys? University of Kentucky Researcher's Pilot Project Could Be the Answer
- UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A Auditorium to be Named The Karpf Auditorium