UK HealthCare Plans Medical Campus in Suburban Lexington

The Hamburg area of Lexington-Fayette County is a fast-growing area of the Bluegrass region.

UK Healthcare has purchased a 27-acre tract in the Hamburg development just east of Lexington for $20.3 million, with plans to turn the site adjacent to Interstate 75 into the future home of a regional hospital and medical office complex.

Mark F. Newman, UK executive vice president for health affairs, says the project recognizes "the need to make healthcare more geographically accessible for our patients in Lexington as well as across Central and Eastern Kentucky."

"Not only will this location be more convenient for many of our patients, it will support our continued growth in outpatient services and create more capacity for essential clinical programs," he says.

The Hamburg area of Lexington-Fayette County is a fast-growing area of the Bluegrass region. As part of its 2025 strategic plan, UK HealthCare is focused on providing convenient access to healthcare.

The proposed community medical campus will provide acute care to complement UK HealthCare's main medical centers, UK Chandler Hospital and UK Kentucky Clinic.

UK HealthCare now offers outpatient services at several other medical facilities across Lexington, including Kentucky Children’s Hospital's pediatric clinics, the Good Samaritan Professional Arts Center, UK HealthCare-Turfland, the Lexington Surgery Center, Kentucky Clinic South, Polk-Dalton Clinic, the UK HealthCare offices at Fountain Court, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital.

UK HealthCare in December announced plans for a new cancer center/ambulatory facility across South Limestone from UK Chandler Hospital — the future home for the UK Markey Cancer Center.

The deal must undergo due diligence and will be finalized with the approval from the UK Board of Trustees and Kentucky's Secretary of Finance and Administration.

Newman says UK trustees will get the details for the medical campus when UK HealthCare presents a master facility plan, which will focus on creating new access sites across the Bluegrass and in underserved areas of Fayette County. 

"We want to treat patients where they are — as close to home as possible with the best of care as possible," Newman says. "That's the goal of this initiative as well — to create greater access, closer to home, for more people in the area to the best possible primary and specialty care."