Yale New Haven was founded in 1826 when the General Hospital Society of Connecticut was chartered as the first hospital in Connecticut and the fourth voluntary hospital in the nation. Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is a 1,541-bed hospital. It is owned and operated by the Yale New Haven Health. YNHH includes the 168-bed Smilow
Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, the 201-bed Yale New Haven Childrens Hospital and the 76-bed Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, making it one of the largest hospitals in the world and the largest in Connecticut. It is the primary teaching hospital for Yale School of
Medicine and Yale School of Nursing. It is also a Level I
trauma center for adult and paediatric patients, which operates a paediatric critical care transport team including registered nurses, respiratory therapists and physicians who transfer paediatric patients from smaller community hospitals to Yale New Haven Childrens Hospital. The hospital had more than 1,100,000 outpatient and emergency visits and 80,500 inpatient discharges. Yale New Haven Hospital is the second largest employer in New Haven, Connecticut, with more than 11,000 employees and has a physician base of more than 4,800 university-based and community physicians practicing more than 100 medical specialties
Last Updated on: Nov 26, 2024