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Kentucky Kernel

Board of trustees members pose to break ground at the site of the new Cancer and Advanced Ambulatory Complex located on State St. on Thursday, April 24, 2024, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Christian Kantosky | Staff

UK holds groundbreaking ceremony for new Cancer and Advanced Ambulatory Building

Alexis Baker, Reporter April 27, 2024

University of Kentucky officials and the Markey Cancer Center community gathered for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new Cancer and Advanced Ambulatory Center. The ceremony was hosted on the site...

A child attendee sits with Santa during the Breakfast with Santa event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at the Kentucky Childrens Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Samuel Colmar | Staff

UK HealthCare annual Breakfast with Santa returns after COVID-19 pandemic

Courtney Suber, Staff Reporter December 2, 2023

UK HealthCare hosted its 35th annual Breakfast with Santa event on Saturday, Dec. 2, the first since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tradition of ‘Breakfast with Santa’ began in 1985 and...

A child attendee sits with Santa during the Breakfast with Santa event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at the Kentucky Childrens Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Samuel Colmar | Staff

PHOTOS: UK HealthCare hosts annual breakfast with Santa event

Samuel Colmar, Photojournalist December 2, 2023

UK HealthCare hosted its 35th annual breakfast with Santa event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at the Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.

UK president Eli Capilouto speaks during a Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, at the Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Capilouto announces Bob DiPaola and Eric Monday as new Co-Executive Vice President for Health Affairs

Casey Sebastiano, Reporter August 6, 2023

UK president Eli Capilouto sent a campus-wide email on August 1 to inform the campus community of recent changes within UK HealthCare (UKHC). According to the email, Capilouto asked Bob DiPaola and...

University of Kentucky Board of Trustees chairman Robert Vances listens during a Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, at the Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

UK Board of Trustees discusses possible expansion, appoints faculty positions

Alexis Baker, Staff Reporter February 20, 2023

The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees met to appoint faculty positions, present awards and expand city planning on Friday, Feb. 17. The University Healthcare Committee chair, E. Britt Brockman,...

A dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is injected into a patient’s arm on Saturday, April 10, 2021, at UK’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Kentucky Kernel

UK discontinues COVID dashboard as Kentucky positivity rates increase

Rayleigh Deaton, Editor-in-Chief September 1, 2022

The University of Kentucky is no longer maintaining a COVID-19 dashboard displaying vaccination percentages and positivity rates among students, faculty and staff. The dashboard, which was updated regularly...

A box of COVID-19 vaccines is carried to vaccine stations on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021,  in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Experts preview COVID-19 vaccine in community town hall

Barkley Truax April 24, 2021

The University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare, in partnership with local faith leaders and SHARE Lexington, hosted a town hall Saturday morning to help answer questions about the safety, efficacy and long-term...

The University of Kentucky announced a $500,000 investment into the campuss mental health resources on Feb. 21, 2020. Photo by Rick Childress

UK to create ‘field hospital’ inside Nutter Field House

Kernel News Desk April 3, 2020

UK will open a 400-bed field hospital in Nutter Field House, announced President Capilouto in an email to the UK community on Friday morning.More details about the field hospital were announced at a press...

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UK faculty source over 6,000 protective masks for UK HealthCare workers

Emily Girard April 3, 2020

After hearing of a shortage of personal protective equipment at UK Healthcare due to the coronavirus pandemic, a group of Chinese and Chinese-American UK faculty banded together to acquire over 6,000 face...

A UK HealthCare employee directs an employee through at the drive-through testing site at UK HealthCare Turfland. Photo by Jeremy Blackburn 

UK HealthCare offers drive-through testing to frontline employees

Natalie Parks March 26, 2020

Drive-through COVID-19 testing will be offered to UK HealthCare's “frontline employees and patient care providers.”Testing will be by appointment for employees who have symptoms, but do not need in-patient...

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UK HealthCare now offering same-day COVID-19 tests for ‘sickest patients’

Jacob Eads March 23, 2020

UK HealthCare officials announced Monday that providers are now testing potential COVID-19 patients at UK HealthCare facilities from start to finish.Of the over 900 COVID-19 tests administered by UK HealthCare...

UK HealthCare Enterprise Director of Infection Prevention & Control Kim Blanton speaks to local media on Friday, March 13, 2020, in UK Chandler Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, to provide updates about the local spread of the novel coronavirus. Kentuckys first coronavirus patient has been released from UK Chandler Hospital with a full recovery. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Kentucky’s first coronavirus patient recovered, discharged from UK hospital

Natalie Parks March 13, 2020

UK Healthcare experts convened for a press update on COVID-19 on Friday afternoon, one week after the first case was confirmed in Kentucky.Dr. Derek Forster, medical director of the infectious disease...

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