Smilow: 'An economic engine" 10.21.09
The Smilow Cancer Hospital officially opened this afternoon in a ceremony held in the shadow of the $467 million, 14-story new building. In addition to University President Richard Levin and other Yale officials, Yale-New Haven Hospital CEO Marna Borgstrom, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell also spoke at the ceremony, which featured a ribbon-cutting and a performance by the Trinity Boys Choir.