Yale New Haven Hospital

A Rhode Island man was arrested on Thursday after allegedly threatening to bomb the Yale New Haven Hospital, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials announced on Friday that 42-year-old Alexander Bradley of Cranston, Rhode Island, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint, charging him with threatening to bomb the hospital, according to a press release. According to...

A team of researchers at Yale believe they have found a way to predict who would live and who would not after examining data from over 168 patients.

Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital held a toy drive for kids who will have to spend the holidays in the hospital and away from home.

Thousands of toys were donated Tuesday afternoon to help bring smiles to children who are battling illnesses. A mother and her daughter, who was a patient at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital in 2016, started Faith’s Toy Drive in 2017 and work to get a gift to every child who has to spend their Christmas at the hospital. More toys…

“The emergency department, due to a variety of reasons, is in crisis,” said Yale New Haven Hospital Chief Operating Officer Michael Holmes. He pointed out that 95% of the hospital’s 1,541 licensed beds were full on Friday. “We do have periods of time where we have patients that are waiting in the hallway,” said Holmes. Yale New Haven is not…

“As soon as I walked out you could see massive crowds forming, and there were all sorts of people there: patients, doctors nurses, caregivers,” said Leigh Funderburk. The Southbury mom was at Smilow Cancer Hospital, and it was in that moment as she watched the Smilow Salute that she was sold on the Closer to Free Ride. “As soon as…

“I don’t tell her as much as I should, but my mom is the most amazing person I’ve ever met in my life,” said Colton Varholak of Orange, who spoke to NBC Connecticut about his mother Chrissy. The kindergarten teacher is fighting breast cancer for the second time. Varholak said she was first diagnosed in 2013. Back then, he...

A New Haven firefighter that was injured during a fatal house fire is back in the hospital with lung complications, according to his family.

Officials at Yale New Haven Hospital believe the uptick in younger COVID patients is tied to a lack of vaccination among the younger age groups and the circulating COVID-19 variants.

Yale New Haven Health has had strict limits in place on visitation because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Starting this week, Yale New Haven Hospital will allow limited visitors. On Wednesday, Yale New Haven Hospital will begin allowing limited visitors on selected units for adult inpatients, not located on a COVID unit, who have been in the hospital for longer than…

Two thousand doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are on the way to Yale New Haven Health from Michigan. The hospital system’s chief clinical officer Dr. Thomas Balcezak said a FedEx tracker shows the shipment will arrive Tuesday and staff will begin vaccinations Tuesday and Wednesday. “We believe we’re well on our way towards getting all of our staff and...

Yale New Haven Health is starting off their new fiscal year facing rising COVID-19 cases and a $120 million shortfall from last year. They say it’s due to fewer elective surgeries that bring in profits and a refusal to lay people off. “We elected to not only to not lay off any employees, but to keep everyone employed and to…

Hospitals across Connecticut have re-implemented visitor restrictions as cases of COVID-19 continue to climb in the state. Visitors are being restricted at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health outpatient facilities. Effective immediately, hospital officials said there is no visitation to any hospitalized patients. Rare exceptions can be made at the discretion of the patient’s clinical team,...

The widespread Blackbaud data breach impacting a large number of organizations is impacting two Connecticut hospitals: Yale New Haven Hospital and Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. Blackbaud is a software company that the hospitals use for donor communications and engagement. “YNHH was notified by Blackbaud on Sept. 1, 2020 that an unauthorized party had removed non-financial information as part of a…