1978 Temple Surgical Center opened at 60
Temple Street in New Haven on July 1, 1978
as one of the first free-standing outpatient
surgical facilities in the state. The building
already contained a diagnostic radiology
center, which had opened in 1976, a physical
rehabilitation and physical fitness department
and other diagnostic ambulatory services.
1986 Temple Surgical Center was so successful
that by 1986 the facility expanded
from four to six operating rooms and into the
newly opened 40 Temple Street building.
1987 Temple Surgical Center met its commitment
to the OB-GYN staff to provide outpatient
surgical services for their patients, moving
two of its operating rooms to a Women’s
Surgical Center in May. Two years later, Temple
added a treatment room for physicians,
podiatry and gastroenterology services and an image
intensifier to perform more complex procedures.
1991 The opening of the New Haven Medical Hotel
allowed short-term overnight, elective procedures,
previously only done in the hospital, to be performed.
1993 The New Haven Medical Hotel became licensed
as a sub-acute nursing facility.
1994 In September, Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Ambulatory Services Corporation purchased the Temple and Women’s Surgical Centers and Temple Radiology Department.
1996 The New Haven Medical Hotel changed its name to Temple Recovery Care Center (TRCC), separate from the New Haven Hotel, where it occupies the third floor of the hotel building.
1998 Temple added the first freestanding Gamma Knife Center in Connecticut in July.
1999 Gastroenterology services were expanded and additional space on the fourth floor of the 40 Temple Street building created a four-room GI suite, Temple Endoscopy Center. In addition, Yale-New Haven Ambulatory Services Corporation acquired a financial interest in the Temple Recovery Care Center and purchased four diagnostic imaging centers in greater New Haven
2004 Yale-New Haven Hospital opened the Yale-New Haven Shoreline Medical Center in Guilford in July, which included Yale-New Haven Ambulatory Services Corporation’s new Shoreline Surgery Center.
2006 Temple Surgical,Women’s Surgical, Temple Endoscopy, Gamma Knife, Temple Radiology and satellite radiology centers became a division of Yale-New Haven Hospital on July 1.
2008 Yale-New Haven Hospital Ambulatory Services Division (YNHHASD) celebrates its 30th anniversary.
