Community September 01, 2008
Health services for the community
Yale-New Haven Hospital and its clinics set a high bar on its array of excellent comprehensive healthcare services for patients from Greater New Haven and beyond. YNHH provided services for more than 51,000 inpatients and more than half a million outpatient and emergency visits last year. That number will increase in late 2009, with the opening of Smilow Cancer Hospital, which will be the most comprehensive cancer care facility between Boston and New York City
- Primary care –The YNHH adult and pediatric Primary Care Centers are staffed by physicians and nurses dedicated to comprehensive primary care including acute and chronic problems, and preventive care. Inpatient follow-up and 24-hour telephone coverage are provided. The YNHH Women’s Center offers health initiatives that target medically underserved women by providing cardiac disease and breast and cervical cancer health education and screening.
- In an emergency – Yale-New Haven Hospital, the only Level 1 trauma center for adults and children in the state, is enlarging its emergency department to better serve its patients. The adult emergency room handled over 75,000 patient visits last year. Yale- New Haven Children’s Hospital added five more exam rooms to its emergency department to support the record number of patient visits – more than 31,000 – expected this fiscal year.
- Caring for children – Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency, primary and preventive care to thousands of children and is one of New England’s major referral centers. Many New Haven area children receive routine care, immunizations and treatment for acute and chronic problems in the Pediatric Primary Care Center.
- Caring for the littlest patients – Our newborn intensive care unit – the first in the world when it opened in 1960 – now has 54 beds with 1,300 admissions a year. Specialists provide critical and intensive care to preterm and sick newborns with medical or surgical conditions, acute and supportive care to infants in varying stages of recuperation from diagnostic, therapeutic or surgical interventions, and observation and evaluation after birth.
- Keeping asthma at bay – YNHH employs an asthma outreach worker and has led several community-wide asthma initiatives, reducing hospital utilization by over 50 percent. Its Healthy Homes program combines medical intervention, home remediation, a Safe Home (based on the Lead Safe Home model) and health education and outreach. The Connecticut Department of Social Services provides an “Easy Breathing” award for area providers to learn national standards of asthma care.
In the photo: Lt. Governor Michael Fedele hosted a press conference at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2008 to raise awareness of cervical cancer. (l-r): Lt. Governor Fedele, his wife Carol Fedele, Dr. Peter Schwartz and Marna Borgstrom
