Phone Numbers
Directory assistance
(203) 688-4242
Patient information
(203) 688-4177
Adult emergency
(203) 688-2222
Children's emergency
(203) 688-3333
Admitting
(203) 688-2221
Children's admitting
(203) 688-3331
Psychiatric admitting
(203) 688-9907
Mailing address:
Yale-New Haven Hospital
20 York Street
New Haven, CT
06510-3202
Milestones in Medicine
| 1813 | - | Dr. Eli Ives presents the country's first pediatric course at Yale Medical College |
| 1826 | - | Organization founded as General Hospital Society of Connecticut; becomes Connecticut’s first hospital and the nation’s fourth voluntary hospital |
| 1833 | - | First permanent hospital building, called State Hospital, opens |
| 1862 | - | U.S. Government leases hospital during the Civil War and renames it Knight United States Army General Hospital |
| 1871 | - | New Haven Dispensary opens as city's first outpatient clinic |
| 1873 | - | New Haven Hospital opens the Connecticut Training School, one of the nation’s first three nursing schools |
| 1879 | - | The Connecticut Training School publishes the nation’s first nursing textbook, with three sections on delivery, child care and private nursing |
| 1884 | - | Name of State Hospital changes to New Haven Hospital |
| 1896 | - | Grace School of Nursing founded |
| 1896 | - | Arthur Wright produces first X-ray in the U.S. at Yale University |
| 1913 | - | First formal agreement with Yale University School of Medicine |
| 1914 | - | Purchase first motorized ambulance |
| 1926 | - | Centennial celebration of General Hospital Society of Connecticut |
| 1933 | - | New Haven Hospital Volunteer Department becomes one of the first organized programs in the country |
| 1942 | - | First U.S. hospital to have a paid director of volunteer services |
| 1942 | - | First successful clinical use of penicillin in U.S |
| 1942 | - | First ever use of chemotherapy as a cancer treatment |
| 1945 | - | Grace Hospital merges with New Haven Hospital to form Grace-New Haven Hospital |
| 1946 | - | First U.S. hospital to allow healthy newborns to stay in rooms with mothers |
| 1947 | - | The Rheumatic Fever-Cardiac clinic opens as the nation's first regional children's heart center |
| 1949 | - | First ever artificial heart pump developed (Now at the Smithsonian) |
| 1949 | - | First U.S. hospital to introduce natural childbirth as a general service for all obstetrical patients |
| 1951 | - | New Haven Dispensary formally merges with Grace-New Haven Hospital |
| 1952 | - | First cornea transplant in Connecticut |
| 1952 | - | Women's Auxiliary of the Hospital developed |
| 1954 | - | First high energy radiation treatment unit in Connecticut |
| 1956 | - | First open heart surgery in Connecticut |
| 1957 | - | First ever hospital to use fetal heart monitoring |
| 1957 | - | First peritoneal dialysis in Connecticut |
| 1958 | - | First hemodialysis in Connecticut |
| 1958 | - | First kidney biopsy in Connecticut |
| 1959 | - | Discovery of melatonin |
| 1960 | - | First ever intensive care unit for newborns |
| 1963 | - | First linear accelerator for cancer treatment in Connecticut |
| 1964 | - | First radiation therapy technology school in the U.S. |
| 1965 | - | Grace-New Haven Hospital becomes Yale-New Haven Hospital |
| 1966 | - | Phrenic nerve pacemaker allows quadriplegics to breathe without a respirator |
| 1967 | - | First kidney transplant in Connecticut |
| 1972 | - | First hospital-based comprehensive newborn screening program for sickle cell anemia in the U.S. |
| 1975 | - | Lyme disease identified and named |
| 1976 | - | 150th anniversary celebration |
| 1976 | - | First in Connecticut to treat cancer with photons and eletrons |
| 1978 | - | Develop first ever insulin infusion pump for diabetics |
| 1979 | - | First insulin infusion pump for diabetes |
| 1982 | - | First AIDS clinic in Connecticut |
| 1983 | - | First liver transplant in Connecticut |
| 1983 | - | First in vitro fertilization birth in New England |
| 1983 | - | Yale New Haven Health System established |
| 1984 | - | First heart transplant in Connecticut |
| 1984 | - | First skin bank in New England |
| 1985 | - | First fetal cardiovascular center in the U.S. |
| 1985 | - | First hospital-based inpatient child psychiatric unit in Connecticut |
| 1987 | - | First use of photopheresis in Connecticut |
| 1988 | - | First bone marrow transplant in Connecticut |
| 1988 | - | First heart-lung transplant in Connecticut |
| 1988 | - | First fetal tissue cell transplant into Parkinson's patient |
| 1989 | - | First pancreas transplant in Connecticut |
| 1990 | - | First single lung transplant in Connecticut |
| 1991 | - | First in Connecticut to use Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), a sophisticated infant life support system |
| 1992 | - | First heart transplant from an unmatched donor in Connecticut |
| 1993 | - | First in Connecticut to use non-invasive stereotactic breast biopsy |
| 1993 | - | Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital becomes first full-service children's hospital in Connecticut, including first children's emergency department |
| 1994 | - | First in Connecticut to use epidural endoscopy to diagnose elusive back pain |
| 1995 | - | First hospital in Connecticut to have an Internet website |
| 1996 | - | First in Connecticut to perform Battista heart reduction surgery |
| 1997 | - | First and only Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit© in Connecticut |
| 1997 | - | First in Connecticut to use inhaled nitric oxide to treat infants with pulmonary hypertension |
| 1997 | - | First documented heart transplants of adult identical twins, one in 1992, second in 1997 |
| 1998 | - | First patient in New England discharged with a left ventricular assist device |
| 2000 | - | First in Connecticut to use GE LightSpeed CT Scanners |
| 2001 | - | First U.S. hospital to introduce a Women's Heart Advantage program |
| 2002 | - | First to transplant nerve cell into brain of multiple sclerosis patient |
| 2003 | - | First in New England to transplant a Jarvik2000 ventricular assist device into a failing heart |
Milestones in Transplantation - Connecticut
| 1952 | - | Cornea |
| 1967 | - | Kidney |
| 1983 | - | Liver |
| 1984 | - | Heart |
| 1988 | - | Bone marrow |
| 1988 | - | Heart-lung |
| 1989 | - | Pancreas |
| 1990 | - | Single lung |
| 1992 | - | Heart from an unmatched donor |
| 1997 | - | Heart transplants performed on adult identical twins |
| 2003 | - | Jarvik2000 LVAD |
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Last revised: April 13, 2006 (mv)
