UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY HOSPITAL
800 ROSE STREET, LEXINGTON, KY 40536
4★ care at average cost — good value
Score = 60% quality + 40% relative cost within category
Hospital details
- Type
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership
- Government - State
- Emergency services
- Yes
- EHR meaningful use
- —
National comparison
Procedures & outcomes
For a planned procedure — how often this hospital performs it and how patients fared
Procedure volume
How often this hospital performs each procedure for Medicare patients (most recent year reported). Higher volume generally means more experience.
- Major bowel surgery148 Medicare discharges/yr (2022)
- Coronary bypass (CABG)60 Medicare discharges/yr (2022)
- Heart valve surgery43 Medicare discharges/yr (2022)
Financial context (from HCRIS)
Cross-referenced from this hospital's Medicare cost report
For full financial detail — charity care, payer mix, multi-year trends — see the HCRIS link below.
What to look for
Which numbers matter most when choosing — in plain language
- For a planned procedure, volume matters: hospitals that do a procedure often tend to have better results. Check the discharge counts below.
- Complication and 30-day death rates show how patients actually fared — lower is better, and "vs national" tells you how this hospital compares.
- Infection rates (the SIR figures) flag how well the hospital prevents hospital-acquired infections; 1.0 is the national baseline.
- The overall star rating is a useful summary, but the specific measure that matches your reason for going matters more.
Questions to ask
Bring these to a tour, call, or appointment
Questions to ask — UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY HOSPITAL
Hospital · checklist from CareLens (CMS Care Compare data)
- How many of this procedure do you perform each year, and what are your complication rates?
- What is your rate of hospital-acquired infections compared with the national average?
- Who will be the lead surgeon or physician, and how experienced are they with my case?
- What is the typical length of stay, and what does recovery look like?
- What happens if there is a complication — do you have the ICU and specialists on site?
- What will my out-of-pocket cost be, and is the hospital in my insurance network?
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Source: CMS Care Compare · data current as of June 2025.