Perspectives

Shortly after his son’s first birthday in 2019, Arnaldo Valentin received news that would change the course of his family’s life. Valentin had cirrhosis of the liver and would need a liver transplant.

Yale New Haven Health’s annual open enrollment for 2025 benefits begins Monday, Oct. 28 and runs through Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.

It’s 2 am, and you have a patient in the Emergency Department who doesn’t speak English. How do you ask about their symptoms? Or you have a non-English speaking inpatient who’s ready to leave the hospital. How do you provide discharge instructions?

With cold and flu season on the way, YNHHS will soon launch its annual flu vaccination program to help protect employees and keep patients and families safe.

Employee feedback makes a difference, which is why YNHHS invites all employees to participate in the 2024 Employee Engagement Survey Monday, Sept. 9 - Sunday, Sept. 22. The survey will cover several areas, including communication, safety, employee well-being, accountability and action-taking.

Yale New Haven Health and Yale Medicine have introduced the first mobile retail pharmacy and clinic in the state to bring health care to people where they live.

As a progressive healthcare organization, Yale New Haven Health is committed to environmental stewardship and reducing its carbon footprint. One way is through the composting of food waste generated in our cafeterias.

A Yale Robotic Surgery Symposium May 31 was the perfect time to celebrate Yale New Haven Health’s recent milestone of more than 30,000 robotic-assisted surgeries completed across the health system, yet the symposium also gave experts an opportunity to forecast a far greater role for robotics in the future.

I am pleased to launch the premier issue of Perspectives, the new newsletter for the employees of Yale New Haven Health. This newsletter will combine health system news and information from each YNHHS delivery network into one publication. It’s designed to give employees a global view of health system activities that impact everyone, along with coverage of the goings-on at the delivery networks.