Popular Locations
- Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
- Yale New Haven Hospital - York Street Campus
- Yale New Haven Hospital - Saint Raphael Campus
Like all of his coworkers in Facilities and Plant Engineering, Steve Langlan has taken on extra – often unexpected – duties during COVID-19. He’s happy to do whatever is needed.
Langlan’s daughter is a nurse, and while she doesn’t work at Yale New Haven Health System, she’s helped him understand even more how critical Facilities Engineering is to keeping patients and staff safe.
“I love being able to help,” said Langlan, an HVAC-refrigerator mechanic at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Saint Raphael Campus. “If I can make somebody else’s job safer so they can go home to their families, I feel good.”
Since the start of YNHH’s COVID-19 preparations, Facilities staff have used their skills, experience and ingenuity to come up with solutions to even the most unique challenges. Among the many projects they’ve worked on:
In addition to these special projects, Facilities staff continue to do their regular work– though now they’re wearing masks and taking other precautions, said Andy Delandra, an HVAC-refrigerator mechanic at the SRC.
“These are extraordinary times, and I’ve seen how everyone in the hospital has pulled together and done extraordinary things,” Delandra said. “We’re proud to be part of that.”