Patient Care

Clinicians take the time to see the world through their patients’ eyes at the Child Study Center, which brings world-class research in child mental health together with early evaluation and treatment, and education.

More than 800 Yale physicians provide primary and specialty care for patients under the auspices of the Yale Medical Group, one of the largest academic multispecialty practices in the nation. Yale doctors provide advanced care in more than 100 specialties and subspecialties, including organ transplantation, minimally invasive surgery and state-of-the-art cancer care. Yale’s historical contributions to medicine include the first X-ray performed in the United States, the first successful use of penicillin in America, the first use of cancer chemotherapy, and the introduction of fetal heart monitoring, natural childbirth and newborn rooming-in. Yale doctors designed the first artificial heart pump and the first insulin infusion pump for diabetes, and it was here that the means of transmission of the polio virus established, paving the way for the Salk vaccine. Lyme disease was identified by two Yale physicians in 1975.

Patient care overview

Income†			$311 million
Clinical departments			16
Clinical specialties and subspecialties			129
Yale Medical Group
	Office visits		227,734
	Patient encounters		915,843
	YMG Physicians
	Full-time		777
	Part-time		114
	Midlevel practitioners (PA, APRN)		149
Medical residents			642
Clinical fellows			222

† Clinical revenue and office visit data are for the year ending 6/30/07.

Affiliated hospitals			12
Yale-New Haven Hospital
	Patient discharges		51,450
	Newborns		4,851
	Emergency visits		121,763
	Adult beds		670
	Pediatric beds		95
	Bassinets		92
	Psychiatric beds		87
	Total		944