The Adams Neurosciences Center at Yale New Haven Hospital will be a place where advanced science and compassionate care come together to bring hope to patients and families facing complex neurological and neurosurgical conditions. Grounded in leading research and clinical expertise, the Center will offer highly personalized care – including medical, surgical and emerging therapies – while driving new discoveries that expand what’s possible in the treatment of brain and nervous system disorders.
A New Era in Neuroscience Care and Research
This new center – marked by two patient care towers – will serve as the foundation of our advanced and innovative neurological and neurosurgical care for patients from across the country.
At more than 500,000 square feet, the towers will feature neurosurgery operating rooms, rehabilitation services, advanced neuroimaging, and several inpatient care units – all with single patient rooms.
The Adams Neurosciences Center will provide specialty care for varied conditions including epilepsy and seizures; movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease; spinal disorders; and neurovascular conditions including stroke and aneurysms. Focused offerings will include neuromodulation treatments that involve altering the body’s pain signals, and neurorestoration to help patients improve function and return to life, work and sports.
The Center will also support other hospital services. For patients’ convenience, a 200-space two-level underground garage will be below one tower.
Our long history of advanced neurosciences care has been recognized with Yale New Haven Hospital being named one of the “Best Hospitals” for Neurology and Neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report.
Adams Neurosciences Center Features
Combined, the towers will have 184 single patient rooms, house four neurosurgery operating rooms, as well as radiology, biomedical imaging and interventional radiology and the existing McGivney Advanced Surgery Center. Features will include a welcoming lobby, gift shop, café, retail pharmacy and conference rooms. A conference center seating up to 245 people will extend across both towers.
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Recognized internationally as a leader in innovative care for all types of epilepsy, the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center was one of the nation’s first such centers and remains one of the most active and advanced programs in the world. With a Level 4 rating – the highest rating by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers – patients and families benefit from care that integrates expertise of the program’s clinical staff and advanced technology. Services include medical, surgical, dietary and device treatment options, including investigative therapies.
Clinical Trials
Our dedication to discovery has made Yale New Haven Hospital a world leader in neuroscience care and research. As the primary teaching hospital of Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital offers more than 100 unique clinical trials within the field of neurosciences.
Adams Neurosciences Center will embrace the full potential of Yale School of Medicine to develop, test, and implement emerging technologies and treatments that will improve outcomes around the globe for patients suffering from neurological disorders and disease.
Intensive Care Units
A Center highlight will be one tower serving as an intensive care tower. It will consist of three 28-bed intensive care units (ICUs) -- a surgical ICU, a medical ICU, a neurosciences ICU, as well as a 28-bed neurosciences intermediate care unit. Intermediate care beds will be included on the medical ICU. All the Center’s inpatient rooms are private, single occupancy for maximum patient and family comfort. In addition, patients will benefit from in-room environmental controls, real-time health information access, and teleconferencing capabilities to connect remotely with loved ones.
Neuromodulation Program
This subspecialty, also known as functional neurosurgery, focuses on surgery designed to change how the nervous system works. This field includes technology that sends commands from the brain to a computer. Among services to be offered through the center are laser technology for epilepsy treatment and focused ultrasound to treat movement disorders. The program also includes deep brain stimulation which uses electrodes to stimulate nerves deep inside the brain and can relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia and helps patients with conditions like spinal cord injuries.
Neurorestoration and Rehabilitation
The Adams Neurosciences Center will house a 6,000 square foot neurorestoration center that will feature the virtual reality CAREN (Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment) system. This technology helps patients regain balance and movement skills through life-like computer-generated environments. The large rehabilitation gym will bolster our care team’s use of innovative therapies to help patients recover function and return to life, work and sports.
Sanctuary Garden
The Center’s outdoor sanctuary garden on the fourth floor of the Adams Neurosciences Center will be visible from all patient floors and serve as a respite for patients, families and visitors as well as staff.
Advanced Spine Care
Patients with serious acute or chronic spinal disease receive advanced, personalized, multidisciplinary spine care including access to specialists from neurosurgery, orthopedics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, behavioral health, pain management, and physical therapy. Our team focuses solely on spinal disorders and provides surgical assessment and care for a variety of spinal conditions and injuries. Services include cervical and lumbar disc replacements, artificial disc replacement, minimally invasive spinal surgery, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty, spinal fusions, spinal decompressions, surgical intervention for spinal tumors, and treatment of vertebral fractures.
Stroke Center
Both Yale New Haven Hospital campuses are certified as stroke centers by The Joint Commission and provide patients with 24/7 access to lifesaving, rapid and comprehensive stroke treatment. Our expert teams include specialists from vascular neurology, neurovascular surgery, neurocritical care, emergency medicine and other subspecialties. The nurse navigator program helps patients transition from the Emergency Department and inpatient care through rehabilitation to home. The Stroke Center also provides TeleStroke services to hospitals throughout the region that do not have stroke expertise.
Timeline
April 29, 2019
Joined by community members and elected officials, Yale New Haven Hospital announced the launch of a major healthcare investment on its Saint Raphael campus in New Haven.
After a pandemic-related pause, the Saint Raphael Campus neurosciences center and inpatient bed tower project moved forward.
July 2022
Work was underway for a new, 784-space garage on Orchard Street for Yale New Haven Hospital’s Saint Raphael Campus.
August 31, 2022
Yale New Haven Health leaders joined local and state officials at a groundbreaking for the Neurosciences Center and Bed Tower project.
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
As part of the Adams Neurosciences Center and Bed Tower Project, work included removal of some buildings along Sherman Avenue on the Saint Raphael Campus. The overall project work includes construction of a 781-space Orchard Street Garage on what was once a surface parking lot at corner of Orchard and George streets scheduled to open later in 2023.
November 16, 2023
Work on the Neurosciences Center and Bed Tower project at the Saint Raphael Campus briefly paused so employees, vendor and construction workers could watch the ceremonial final beam on the McGivney Tower being locked into place.
November 2024
Hundreds of Yale New Haven employees signed two beams from the Adams Neurosciences Center’s Sherman Tower before the Dec. 4 topping off ceremony which marked placement of the last beams. Two patient care towers will make up the Neurosciences Center at YNHH’s Saint Raphael Campus.
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