News Release

Linda and Jack Gill gift:

• $5 million donated in 1997
• In addition to funds for the building, the Gill donation also established three endowed chairs and 10 endowed professorships, including:
• Chairs:
Jack Gill Chair in Internal Medicine
Gill Foundation Chair of Preventive Cardiology
Linda Gill Chair in Nursing
• Professorships:
Gill Foundation Professorship in Interventional Cardiology
Jeff Gill Professorship in Cardiology
Jennifer Gill Professorship in Pediatric Cardiology
Jason Gill Professorship in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Tyler Gill Professorship in Vascular Surgery
Harry B. Kostenbauder Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Alvin L. Morris Professorship in Oral Health Research
Marcia A. Dake Professorship in Nursing Science
Jacqueline A. Noonan Professorship in Pediatrics
Joseph Hamburg Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences

Building:

• Cost: $25,000,000
• The UK Linda and Jack Gill Building is a steel frame structure with a total of five floors and a penthouse, having a total area of 108,345 square feet.

• The ground, first and second floors comprise the UK Gill Heart Institute:

• The ground floor is 18,105 square feet and consists of the north Jacquelyn A. Noonan atrium, a south patient entrance, conference rooms, office space, and shelled space for the future.
• The first floor, 18,105 square feet, consists of the cardiology clinic with space for echocardiograms, stress tests, special procedures, Holter scans, and electrocardiograms.
• The second floor, 20,531 square feet, consists of four fully equipped, state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization labs and two shelled labs for future growth. It also includes10 cardiac catheterization preparation/recovery rooms.

• The third and fourth floors comprise the UK Center for Advanced Surgery:

• The third floor, 19,587 square feet, houses a reception/waiting area, a pediatric waiting area, refreshment bar, preparation and recovery rooms, in addition to space for sterile storage and decontamination of instruments.
• The fourth floor, 19,574 square feet, is primarily composed of operating rooms and preparation and recovery areas.
• The penthouse, 12,430 square feet, consists of mechanical support space for the building.

• The exterior of the building is a continuation of the architectural vernacular as developed for the Charles T. Wethington Jr. Building (formerly the UK College of Health Sciences Building).
• The Gill and Wethington buildings were designed by internationally renowned architect Robert A. M. Stern of New York City. This project includes a pedestrian gateway bridge spanning Rose Street that connects the Gill Building to the third floor of the Wethington Building.

Clinic:

• Since July 2003, 7,671 patients have been seen in the cardiology clinic, which was previously housed in Kentucky Clinic. The new clinic space in the Gill Building opened to patients on Monday, April 19.
• The previous cardiology clinic had nine patient exam rooms. The new clinic contains 16.
• The number of computers in the clinic has increased from seven in the previous space to 22 in the new clinic, enabling clinicians to obtain patient information more quickly.
• Now, patients can get an EKG performed in the patient exam room; patients previously had to go to another room for the test.
• A new system will allow physicians in an exam room to flip a switch that will notify employees in that area that an EKG or ECHO test is needed for the patient in the exam room. An EKG technician will come to the exam room to perform the test, or an ECHO technician will take the patient to the ECHO test area.
• The new clinic has consult rooms to accommodate patient/family meetings.

Equipment:

• New equipment purchased for the building to date totals $13,050,000.
• Large-field-of-view camera, which is state-of-the-art technology for peripheral vascular interventions (such as for the arteries leading to the legs, kidney and brain).
• Philips Integris Allura Flat Dector digital flat panel equipment providing the highest resolution imaging capabilities (pixel resolution small than .01 inch).
• The only cardiac catheterization laboratories in Kentucky with Philips StentBoost, a technology used to optimally place stents in the heart’s arteries.
• One of 10 hospitals in the United States and the only in Kentucky to have Philips Xres TM technology, a proprietary diagnostic ultrasound image-processing technique. Xres is an award-winning real-time image processing algorithm that performs 350 million calculations per image frame. In XRES mode, boundaries and margins are significantly enhanced and subtle tissue patterns are revealed, while common ultrasound artifacts such as speckle and clutter are virtually eliminated.
• Bi-plane room for pediatric and complex electrophysiology procedures.

Cardiovascular Disease Facts:

• In 2001, cardiovascular disease accounted for 38.5 percent of all deaths in the United States.
• Nationwide, cardiovascular disease claims more lives each year than the next five leading causes of death combined, which are cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes mellitus, and influenza and pneumonia.
• In 2001, there were 71,075,000 physician office visits and 5,627,000 outpatient department visits with a primary diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. (National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2001, CDC/NCHS)
• In 2004, the estimated direct and indirect cost of cardiovascular disease is $368.4 billion.
• (Information obtained from Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics – 2004 update, American Heart Association)