Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven

Smilow Cancer Hospital
at Yale-New Haven
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven – a partnership between
Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer
Center – consolidates all of the hospital’s cancer services, both inpatient
and outpatient, into a single world-class cancer hospital.
Facts about Smilow Cancer
Hospital at Yale-New Haven
• Only comprehensive cancer facility in
the Northeast, with both inpatient and
outpatient care in one hospital
• Connecticut’s largest provider of cancer
care – treating over 25 percent of the
20,000 patients diagnosed annually
in the state
• 12 multidisciplinary cancer programs
• Nearly 200 clinical trials, including a focused
early clinical trials program, providing the
most advanced cancer therapies
• 14 stories tall, 497,000 square feet
• 168 inpatient beds, 12 operating rooms,
100 infusion chairs
• Specialty services – survivorship care,
prevention education, smoking cessation,
oncodermatology service, cardiotoxicity
service, support groups, cancer boutique,
and exercise and nutrition support
• Ambulatory Smilow Care Centers throughout
the state in Derby, Guilford, Hamden,
New Haven, Orange, Sharon, Torrington
and Waterbury
• LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building
Council for energy efficiency
• A outdoor, roof-top healing garden on
the seventh floor
Opened in 2009, the cancer hospital provides the very best cancer care
available, brings together some of the nation’s best minds to develop new
methods to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, and attracts additional
high-level talent to Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Centers provide patients affected by cancer
and blood diseases with individualized, innovative, convenient and caring
medical treatment. Chemotherapy is available on-site at all care centers,
with concurrent radiation therapy available at most locations.

Premier clinical care at Smilow Cancer Hospital
Smilow Cancer Hospital treats more cancer patients than any other hospital in
Connecticut. A team from one of Smilow’s 12 cancer programs meets to discuss
each patient’s diagnosis and therapy options, resulting in the development of a
unique, comprehensive treatment plan for each patient that can include surgery,
chemotherapy, radiation, a combination of treatments or conservative monitoring.
Smilow offers the latest in screening and diagnosis, genetic counseling,
treatment, psychosocial support, pain management, rehabilitation and longterm,
follow-up care. In addition, Smilow patients often have the opportunity to
take advantage of clinical trials which are not available at most hospitals.
Looking to the future
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven will continue to build on the rich
scientific tradition of Yale Cancer Center. Yale Cancer Center is expanding
clinical trials and developing a clinical program that will provide molecular
profiling services to enable targeted therapies. In addition, Yale is creating a
new cancer biology institute at its 136-acre West Campus in West Haven, CT,
which will focus on research in the fields of cell signaling, cancer immunology
and drug development. These investments and programs are expected to bring
new treatments to patients at Smilow over the next few years.
Yale-New Haven Hospital’s cancer services rank
among the best in the United States. Yale-New Haven
Hospital is rated a top hospital in the United States, according to U.S. News &
World Report.
Yale Cancer Center
Yale Cancer Center (YCC) combines a tradition of innovative cancer treatment
and quality care for our patients. A National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated
comprehensive cancer center for over 35 years, YCC is one of only 41 Centers in
the nation. Yale Cancer Center is a collaboration between nationally and
internationally renowned scientists and physicians at Yale School of Medicine
and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. www.yalecancercenter.org
Smilow’s 12 Cancer Programs
1. Brain Tumor Program
2. Breast Cancer Program
3. Endocrine Cancers Program
4. Gastrointestinal Cancers Program
5. Gynecologic Cancers Program
6. Head and Neck Cancers Program
7. Hematology Program
8. Melanoma Program
9. Pediatric Oncology Program
10. Prostate and Urologic Cancers Program
11. Sarcoma Program
12. Thoracic Oncology Program
For a referral to one of our cancer experts, please call
203-688-2000 or toll-free 1-888-700-6543.
Inside Smilow
Cancer Hospital
Lower level
Radiation Oncology Suite
1st floor
Women’s Services Center:
- Breast Center
- Gynecology Oncology Program
Patient and Family Resource Center
Complementary Medicine
Survivorship Clinic, The Boutique
2nd floor
Diagnostic Radiology
3rd floor
Operating Rooms; Pathology
4th floor
Clinical Laboratories, Reflection Room
Multispecialty Care Center:
- Endocrinology Program
- Head and Neck Cancers Program
Prostate and Urologic Cancers Program
Thoracic Oncology Program
7th floor
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Center
Multispecialty Care Center:
- Hematology Program
- Bone Marrow Transplant Program
8th floor
Multispeciality Care Center:
- Gastrointestinal Cancers Program
- Melanoma Program
- Brain Tumor Program
- Apheresis
9th and 10th floors
Medical Intensive Care, Stepdown units
11th floor
Bone Marrow Transplant Inpatient Unit
12th floor
Medical Oncology Inpatient Unit
14th floor
Women’s Inpatient Unit
15th floor
Surgical Oncology Inpatient Unit
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