While Yale-New Haven Hospital makes no butts about its commitment to eradicating secondhand smoke from its premises, the pungent odor of tobacco lingered in the skywalk leading from the hospital’s entrance to the attached parking garage this past Saturday.
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.
This month, Yale-New Haven Hospital paid $2 million to District 1199 of the Service Employees International Union as part of an arbitration deal forged after a near-decade-long battle between the two parties.
The embattled Yale-New Haven Hospital, already mired in a decade-long tussle over the unionization of its workers, will pay a fine of $3.78 million to the U.S. Department of Justice in order to settle allegations of Medicare fraud.
The Smilow Cancer Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital moved one more step towards reality on Wednesday, when the City Plan Commission unanimously approved the site plan for the garage on the Lot E site.
Despite ongoing concerns of possible increased traffic congestion near the Yale-New Haven Hospital, city officials voted to approve new plans for a $60 million clinical laboratory — an extension to the Smilow Cancer Hospital, currently under construction — at a City Plan Commission meeting Wednesday.
As Joel Smilow ’54 stood at the podium during a press conference Wednesday to speak about a donation he made recently to the Yale-New Haven Hospital — the largest gift the hospital has ever received — he said he has been brought to tears by cancer twice this week.
Andromahi “Mahi” Trivellas ’11, who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident on the corner of York and Elm streets about two weeks ago, has been discharged from Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Marking a watershed in the unionization dispute between Yale-New Haven Hospital and the union seeking to organize workers there, an independent arbitrator has ordered the hospital to pay employees and the union $4.5 million in damages.
The hospital has to pay. The workers get a check — and not much more. The union can still argue for an card-check election, but its legal route is more unclear than ever.
The Freshman Class Council kicked off a campaign Sunday to make get-well cards for Branford College freshman Andromahi “Mahi” Trivellas ’11, who has been in serious condition since she became the victim of a hit-and-run accident a week and a half ago.
The Connecticut Center for a New Economy Political Director Gwen Mills fielded questions on topics ranging from the Yale-New Haven Hospital’s recent violations of labor laws to her favorite pizza place in a Monday-night discussion with 25 students sponsored by the Yale College Democrats and the Undergraduate Organizing Committee.
