Care Begins in the Garage
When patients and their visitors come to a UK HealthCare facility, they depend on finding safe, convenient, and reliable parking. As the services and availability of clinical care continues to grow across the UK HealthCare enterprise, patient access to convenient parking is critical to the day-to-day operations and our overall mission.
To ensure that parking is always available for patients and patient visitors, UK HealthCare established Policy A10-055 which details the policies and procedures specific to designated patient and patient visitor parking areas.
University of Kentucky employees, students, associates, contractors, construction workers and other unauthorized individuals parking in UKHC lots and structures in violation of UK HealthCare Policy A10-055 are subject to steep penalties, including a $100 fine for unauthorized UK HealthCare patient and patient visitor parking. UK employees may additionally be subject to corrective personnel action for a first violation and escalating corrective action for repeated offenses.
Parking Policy Compliance
Ideally, all members of the University community would adhere to the established parking policies. Unfortunately, a small minority of employees, students, and university associates knowingly park in violation or are willfully ignorant of the established policies as an excuse to avoid accountability. For this reason, parking enforcement is a necessary component of the broader parking management effort.
Policies have little substance without consequences. While parking citations are generally considered punitive and come with a financial penalty, the primary focus of the citation is to notify an individual of a policy violation (educate) and promote compliance with established policies (change behavior).
UK Transportation Services’ technology and support services and parking enforcement divisions work collaboratively to assure compliance. Our technology and support services division utilizes best-in-class fixed license plate recognition (LPR) cameras at the entry and exit to UK HealthCare patient parking facilities, while our enforcement division deploys mobile LPR camera equipped vehicles. The resulting license plate data is then analyzed for trends and for alignment with typical shifts, class schedules and adjacent housing assignments. When patterns are identified and policy abuse is suspected, Transportation Services will flag suspected vehicle to monitor all future parking activity more closely. If further unauthorized parking is identified, the vehicle is then issued a citation.