Advancing Care
into Our
Third Century
For two centuries, we’ve pushed medicine forward.
One discovery, one patient, one breakthrough at a time.
Inspired discovery
Leading the Way
When Yale New Haven Hospital opened on May 26, 1826, there was no electricity, no anesthesia, no understanding of sepsis. No cars, ambulances or airplanes. X-rays and antibiotics weren’t even on the horizon. The hospital had just 13 beds. No one alive could have imagined the existence of television or computers, let alone robotic surgery, organ transplants or telemedicine.
As the decades passed, the rate and speed of scientific understanding, medical breakthroughs, new equipment, promising medications and professional practices intensified. Yale New Haven Hospital both benefited from and contributed to the advancement of science and health care.
