At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Smilow Cancer Hospital Wednesday, nothing about the festive atmosphere and teary-eyed attendants suggested the controversial design process of the building — a process that involved extensive negotiations between hospital administrators, the building’s architects and city officials.
With the opening of the Smilow Cancer Hospital, director Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 said he hopes Yale-New Haven Hospital will become the Yale Law School of cancer research.
Modern medicine and modern art came together at the Smilow Cancer Hospital, which opened Wednesday afternoon.
Reporter Amir Sharif explains the architectural features behind the new Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven.
October 21, 2009: The official opening ceremony of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven.
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...
Five years, $467 million, 14 floors and 497,000 square feet after plans for its construction were first announced, the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital is just days away from admitting its first patient.
Today’s opening of the Smilow Cancer Center will create both new jobs and more traffic.
When the Smilow Cancer Hospital opens this afternoon, it will tap into the resources of both the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, two institutions that have built a complex relationship since 1826.
Harvard professor Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 was introduced Wednesday as the next director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician in chief for the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale–New Haven Hospital, slated to open in October.
Late in July, the Smilow Cancer Hospital celebrated a milestone in its construction — a ceremony at which its final steel girders were fixed onto the 14th floor.
Richard Edelson, director of the Yale Cancer Center since 2003, has decided to step down from his office and resume his responsibilities in cancer research and as dermatology chair at the Yale School of Medicine full-time, YSM Dean Robert Alpern announced last week.
