Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
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Yale-New Haven's 14-story, 497,000 square-foot Smilow Cancer Hospital, now under construction at Park Street and South Frontage Road, will be the most comprehensive cancer care facility between Boston and New York City, offering patients state-of-the-art care and treatment. Find out more ...
Cancer Hospital in the news
Feb. 26, 2008: Thomas Lynch named Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital
July 29, 2008: Topping off ceremony celebrates construction milestone
June 9, 2008: Yale Breaks Ground on Lab Building
June 4, 2008: Bank of America Charitable Foundation donates $250,000
Lynch named Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital
After an extensive national search, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, has been named director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, which will open in October 2009. His appointment is effective April 1, 2009.
Dr. Lynch, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is chief of hematology/oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center. A lung cancer expert, he is director of the Center for Thoracic Cancers at MGH and director of medical oncology at the MGH Thoracic Oncology Center.
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Topping off ceremony
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The final ceremonial steel girders were hoisted into place on July 24 on the 14th floor of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Four, specially-painted white beams were signed by Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) employees, construction workers, and students from Meadowside Elementary School in Milford in support of a classmate who has been treated for cancer at YNHH.
Six-year-old Nick Branca of Milford, who was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer when he was 3, was at the topping off ceremony with his parents.
Nick, wearing a hard hat, gave the signal to the construction workers to raise the girders, including "his" beam.
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Cancer facility services
The 14-story, nearly 500,000 square-foot building, designed by Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott, will include 112 inpatient beds, outpatient treatment rooms, expanded operating rooms, infusion suites, diagnostic imaging services, therapeutic radiology, a specialized Women's Cancer Center and the Yale-New Haven Breast Center/GYN Oncology Center.
Plan of the building and available equipment
This facility will directly benefit patients as we translate the promise of basic science research into the clinical setting. The Yale Cancer Center is one of a select network of 38 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. As a result, this facility will provide a significant opportunity to better the lives of cancer patients in New Haven and throughout the country.
— Robert Alpern, MD
Dean
Yale University School of Medicine
Support buildings
55 Park Street
On June 2, 2008, officials from Yale-New Haven Hospital, Fusco Corporation and the City of New Haven gathered to mark the official groundbreaking of the new clinical lab building at 55 Park Street, adjacent to Smilow Cancer Hospital.
Fusco Corporation will construct and own the $92.8 million, six-story, 146,000 square-foot building will house state-of-the-art clinical laboratories, pharmacy services and shipping and receiving for all of Yale-New Haven Hospital. The building will connect to the main hospital complex through both an underground tunnel and a fourth floor, outdoor glass enclosed elevated walkway that will crossover South Frontage Road. The first floor will contain retail space.
The clinical lab will occupy nearly 80,000 square feet of the new complex, while the YNHH pharmacy will occupy over 10,000 square feet. The major advantage to the new facility will be the relocation of the shipping and receiving area with a five-bay loading dock, freight elevator and underground tunnel to Smilow Cancer Hospital and the three other inpatient pavilions at YNHH. The relocation of the hospital’s loading dock will ease traffic congestion on South Frontage Road.
YNHH currently has more than 260 employees in the nine laboratories that will call the new facility their home. Chemistry, hematology, microbiology, virology, immunology, prenatal, flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics and the blood bank handle over five million clinical tests annually, a figure that is estimated to climb to nearly six million by the time the new facility opens in 2010.
2 Howe Street
On June 24, officials from Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation and the City of New Haven broke ground for the new parking, residential and commercial development project on 2 Howe Street (Lot E). Located one block from YNHH’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, the facility will contain a six-story parking garage with 845 spaces; a 53,000 square foot three-story mixed-use (retail/office) building; and 24 residential units. Apart from the retail space, YNHH will occupy all of the project’s components.
According to Intercontinental Real Estate, based in Boston, construction is scheduled for completion in winter, 2009.
Community benefits
On March 18, 2005, Yale-New Haven Hospital announced a Community Investment Program in keeping with the city's request that new development projects also consider community needs. We think this comprehensive program, in addition to the more direct benefits outlined below, make the cancer center a benefit to patients and the community.
City revenues
The project will generate nearly $5 million in building permits to the city of New Haven and an additional $3-4 million in PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) annual payments will be made to the city of New Haven. The city currently receives less than $200,000 in PILOT payments annually for the Grace Building, which will make way for the larger cancer hospital project and the increased PILOT payments.
[Yale-New Haven] promised us that they are going to build the new cancer center with the building trades workers, who recycle the money earned in New Haven back to New Haven's economy. In return, New Haven building trades has promised Yale-New Haven Hospital and will promise the city of New Haven right here, right now, that New Haven residents will be employed on the hospital project ... We promise the local workers on the project will respect the neighborhoods and neighbors that surround the hospital because that is where they live too ... We promise that our workers will construct a cancer center second to none, which will benefit not only Yale-New Haven Hospital but the entire region ...Those are real measurable community benefits and the New Haven Building Trades only agenda is to secure work, dignity and good wages and benefits for the men and women of the construction industry. The Yale-New Haven Hospital cancer center will allow us to continue those things.
— Ben Cozzi
President
New Haven Building Trades Council
and Connecticut Building Trades Council
Business Manager and President
Operating Engineers Local 478
Statement before the
City Plan Commission,
September 22, 2004
Giving to Smilow Cancer Hospital
The new cancer facility is estimated to cost approximately $467 million, which will be funded by equity, bond financing and a major fundraising campaign. See giving opportunities for information on how to be part of the success of this important undertaking.
Additional resources
Try our online physician referral service and select a cancer or oncology specialist based on location, insurance participation, office hours, gender or language spoken. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.- Online Resources
- National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service:
1-800-4-CANCER (422-6237)
Cancer Services home page
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