“We imagined, 'How could we build a space that really supports the work that we’re doing for our community?'” Warnick said at the ribbon-cutting. Warnick, PhD, associate research scientist and CSC’s lead of clinical operations, organized the planning effort for what was a massive project. “I think it’s the respect they feel by the beauty of it. I feel that’s what makes it worthwhile,” she says. Mayes says it is great to see the excited look on children’s faces as they walk through the doors of the new space. “That is what you will continue to do at this facility.” “You stood up for the principle long before it became fashionable, that given the chance every child in America can learn and succeed,” added U.S. “The children who come here deserve space that lets them know that you respect them, that you have high expectations, and that they’re going to be better because they came here.” “We owe her incredible gratitude because I don’t think we would be here without her.”Ĭhildren who live in New Haven and nearby communities will be very well served, said New Haven Mayor Toni Harp. “Our patients see us as one organization, and Linda has been key to helping to lead this transformation for the entire medical center,” Borgstrom said.
Marna Borgstrom, CEO of Yale New Haven Health, celebrated the opening as one more example of the seamlessness of care between the hospital system and the School of Medicine.
“This will really be the home that the Child Study Center has always deserved,” Alpern proclaimed.
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He recalled first seeing it about 15 years ago, “when it was a building that the telephone company used for phone lines and it had no windows and it looked like a bunker.” Now there are large windows on all sides, along with original artwork, books donated by Scholastic Publishing, plus well-placed lighting and other architectural touches by the firm of Svigals + Partners that enhance the quality of the care being delivered. Alpern, MD, dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, said the building is a space transformed. And we bring programs together that heretofore did not have the opportunity to collaborate.”Īt the official ribbon-cutting on October 4, Robert J. It's giving patients one door to come through. Bringing everyone together in one space allows them to work together more effectively. “Clinicians and scholars in those different sites had fewer opportunities to interact with and learn from one another. A family might go to one building, and then they would have to come all the way to another building,” she explains. “Before, our families had to come to different sites. Mayes, MD, Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, and chair of the CSC, says the larger size is just one of its advantages. The building’s work areas, 53,000 square feet total, are more than triple the combined space of CSC’s three prior facilities, which were on York and Temple Streets and on South Frontage Road. The Yale Child Study Center (CSC) has dedicated a new behavioral health care facility at 350 George Street in New Haven that puts its clinical and community-based operations all under one roof, and provides a bright space that is being warmly praised as very welcoming for young patients and their families.