New Haven, CT (August 20, 2026) – Yale New Haven Hospital has been awarded the American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification, recognizing the hospital’s Hypertension Center’s commitment to following proven, research-based treatment guidelines to care for people with complex or difficult-to-treat hypertension, or high blood pressure.
The Hypertension Center is a collaboration among Yale New Haven Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Yale Medicine Nephrology and General Internal Medicine.
Certified facilities must be primarily devoted to patients with hypertension and related disorders, be recognized as referral and treatment resources for resistant and secondary hypertension and have facilities and personnel capable of assessing and evaluating complicated hypertension problems. Certified Comprehensive Hypertension Centers are recognized as leaders in providing the most up-to-date effective treatment strategies based on current evidence-based research in hypertension.
The Hypertension Center provides comprehensive diagnostic testing and therapeutic options delivered by clinical experts for complex hypertensive disorders, including resistant hypertension as well as endocrine, vascular and inherited causes of hypertension.
The center underwent several reviews by American Heart Association quality improvement specialists who evaluated policies, procedures and operations to ensure appropriate diagnosis, evaluation and treatment protocols were in place and executed for hypertension patients.
To signify their exemplary efforts, the Hypertension Center will display the official American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification mark.
“The Hypertension Center is thoroughly committed to providing our patients the highest quality hypertension care centered in current scientific research,” said Benjamin Gallagher, MD, director of the Hypertension Center and associate professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) Yale School of Medicine. “The American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification has highlighted our accomplishments and is recognition of our commitment to continually work to improve the overall treatment and care for our patients with hypertension.”
Through this certification program, the American Heart Association aims to improve the outcomes of people with complex or difficult-to-treat hypertension by collaborating with medical practices to implement evidence-based treatment guidelines.
The overall goals for the certified Comprehensive Hypertension Center encompass patients, providers and research and training opportunities through an evaluation of the practice against a professional set of criteria based on demonstrated adherence to key standards and rigorous review process.
Learn more about hypertension at https://www.ynhhs.org/patient-care/heart/cardiology/hypertension
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in Connecticut, is recognized for advanced clinical care, quality, service, cost effectiveness and commitment to improving the health status of the communities it serves. YNHHS includes five hospitals – Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial, Westerly and Yale New Haven hospitals, several specialty networks and Northeast Medical Group, a non-profit medical foundation with several hundred community-based and hospital-employed physicians. YNHHS is affiliated with Yale University and Yale Medicine, the clinical practice of the Yale School of Medicine and the largest academic multi-specialty practice in New England. Yale New Haven Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of Yale School of Medicine. www.ynhhs.org
