Norwalk Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care community teaching hospital in the Hospital Hill section of Norwalk , Connecticut . The hospital serves a population of 250,000 in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut . The 366-bed hospital has more than 500 physicians on its active medical staff, and 2,000 health professionals and support personnel. The hospital was part of the Western Connecticut Health Network , which included two other hospitals - Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital - up until April 2019, when WCHN merged with Health Quest to form Nuvance Health .
31-759: The hospital was awarded the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence in 2010, 2011 and 2012. HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, analyzed three years of Medicare data and determined that Norwalk Hospital ranked in the top five percent of all hospitals nationally for clinical excellence. This top tier of hospitals was found by HealthGrades to have statistically significantly lower patient mortality and in-hospital complications than other hospitals. Norwalk Hospital also offers specialty centers and surgical weight loss, sleep disorders, and wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Norwalk Hospital manages and operates
62-594: A Master of Medical Science (MMSc) degree through the Yale Physician Associate Program and Yale Physician Assistant Online Program for prospective physician assistants . Public health degrees are administered through the Yale School of Public Health . There are also joint degree programs with other disciplines at Yale, including the MD/ Juris Doctor (J.D.) in conjunction with Yale Law School ;
93-536: A School of Respiratory Care in conjunction with the Norwalk Community College. Norwalk Hospital provides a wide range of clinical programs, anchored by six signature services: The hospital also offers these specialized services: In April 2007, Norwalk Hospital announced that its principal location on Maple Street would be renovated and four new medical facilities would be created, three in Norwalk and one in
124-465: A court appointed new trustees for the institute's holdings. In January 1985 the trustees announced they would sell Hughes Aircraft by private sale or public stock offering. On June 5, 1985 General Motors (GM) was announced as the winner of a secretive five-month, sealed-bid auction. The purchase was completed on December 20, 1985, for an estimated $ 5.2 billion, $ 2.7 billion in cash and the rest in 50 million shares of GM Class H stock. The proceeds caused
155-528: A former administrator pled guilty to fraud and tax charges for the theft of over $ 40 million dollars of computer and electronic software. Jamie Petrone-Codrington illegally bought and sold hardware purchased for the School of Medicine, starting in 2013. According to the court records, Petrone-Codrington was turned in by an anonymous tip after being seen loading computer equipment into her private vehicle, and after ordering high volumes of equipment. Before 1845, there
186-574: A fully accredited, three-year residency program in internal medicine and diagnostic radiology, one-year physician assistant residency programs in surgery and education opportunities in anesthesiology. The Department of Medicine sponsors subspecialty fellowship training programs in Gastroenterology , Nutrition , Pulmonary , Sleep and Critical Care Medicine (in conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine). The Section of Pulmonary Medicine also sponsors
217-849: A student fails, it is his or her responsibility to meet with a professor and arrange for an alternative assessment - passing grades are not released), clinical clerkship evaluations, and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Prior to graduation , students are required to submit a thesis based on original research . For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Yale School of Medicine tied at #10 in Best Medical Schools: Research and tied at #108 in Best Medical Schools: Primary Care. In 18th century United States, credentials were not needed to practice medicine. Prior to
248-501: A tobacco-farming community where his parents came from, and where he practiced as a country physician for the rest of his life. The saddlebags that Dr. Bissell carried in his practice, packed with paper packets and glass bottles, are today in the school's Medical Historical Library. The original building (at Grove and Prospect) later became Sheffield Hall, part of the Sheffield Scientific School (razed in 1931). In 1860,
279-511: A tuition-free fifth year of research are eligible for the Master of Health Science degree. The school employs the "Yale System" established by Dean Winternitz in the 1920s, wherein first- and second-year students are not graded or ranked among their classmates. In addition, course examinations are anonymous and are intended only for students' self-evaluation. Student performance is thus based on seminar participation, qualifying examinations (if
310-479: Is known for its historical collections. The faculty includes 70 National Academy of Sciences members, 47 National Academy of Medicine members, and 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. For the class of 2022, the school received 4,968 applications to fill 104 seats. The median GPA for the class was 3.89, and the median MCAT was 521. The School of Medicine offers the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree and
341-610: Is the medical school at Yale University , a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut . It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary teaching hospital for the school is Yale New Haven Hospital . The school is home to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library , one of the largest modern medical libraries which
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#1732855926521372-649: The Georgetown, Connecticut community that covers parts of Redding , Ridgefield , Weston and Wilton, Connecticut . The Georgetown facility would have 30,000- to 50,000 square feet (5,000 m) of space. In May 2008 the Health and Wellness Center of Norwalk Hospital opened in the i.park Norwalk office park spanning the Norwalk- Wilton border on Route 7. Three medical practices staff the 100,000-square-foot (10,000 m) space, which offers medical and wellness services and
403-463: The Yale School of Medicine . The Department of Medicine-based Internal Medicine Residency is recognized as high quality with graduates going on to practice and pursue fellowships at leading health care institutions. Many of the hospital's physicians engage in research designed to provide patients with new treatments. Norwalk Hospital provides a variety of clinical programs and health education classes to local groups and organizations. The hospital has
434-519: The 1969 reform act for charitable institutions due to legal filings by Hughes to change its operational status, with his objections going directly to the White House. The institute moved to Coconut Grove, Florida , in the mid-1970s and then to Bethesda, Maryland , in 1976. In 1993, the institute moved to its headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was not until after Hughes's death in 1976 that
465-601: The 911 ambulance service for Norwalk and provides paramedic services for the towns of Wilton, Weston, Westport and New Canaan. Norwalk Hospital is a major landowner in the Spring Hill neighborhood. Aside from the land on which the hospital buildings are located, the hospital owns more than a dozen parcels totaling roughly six acres on Truman, Stevens and Maple Streets, Magnolia Avenue and Rhodonolia. The parcels contain houses, condominiums and medical facilities. Some of Norwalk Hospital's medical education programs are affiliated with
496-695: The HHMI Early Career Scientist Competition. In 2014, the institute created a new round of its primary award competition, for a total of $ 150 million in award money from 2015 to 2012. The institute is expanding the Ashburn campus in 2019. In 2016, the HHMI Trustees selected Erin K. O'Shea , a previous Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at the institute, the new president of HHMI. In 2022, HHMI began to require immediate open access to publications from its research. In 2023, HHMI
527-621: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which in turn owned all the stock of the Hughes Aircraft Company. In 1969, Representative Wright Patman "complained that the Hughes foundation was a tax‐evasion device," noting that the institute spent only $ 5.7 million for its operations between 1954 and 1961, a period during which Hughes Aircraft accumulated $ 76.9 million in profits. By 1975, it had also avoided certain stipulations of
558-519: The MD/ Master of Business Administration (MBA) in conjunction with the Yale School of Management ; the MD/ Master of Public Health (MPH) in conjunction with the Yale School of Public Health ; science or engineering in conjunction with the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MD/ PhD ); and the MD/ Master of Divinity (MDiv) in conjunction with Yale Divinity School . Students pursuing
589-529: The United States and the second-best-endowed medical research foundation in the world. HHMI is the former owner of the Hughes Aircraft Company , an American aerospace firm that was divested to various firms over time. The institute was formed with the goal of basic research including trying to understand, in Hughes's words, "the genesis of life itself." Despite its principles, in the early days it
620-542: The first faculty members. Silliman was a professor of chemistry and taught at both Yale College and the Medical School. The other two founding faculty were Jonathan Knight , anatomy, physiology and surgery and Eli Ives , pediatrics. One of Yale's earliest medical graduates was Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell of Hanover, New Hampshire , who graduated in 1815, a member of the school's second graduating class. Following his graduation, Dr. Bissell moved to Suffield, Connecticut ,
651-535: The founding of the medical school, Yale graduates would train through an apprenticeship in order to become physicians. Yale President Ezra Stiles conceived the idea of training physicians at Yale and ultimately, his successor Timothy Dwight IV helped found the medical school. The school was chartered in 1810 and opened in New Haven in 1813. Nathan Smith (medicine and surgery) and Benjamin Silliman (pharmacology) were
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#1732855926521682-690: The institute to grow dramatically. HHMI completed the building of a new research campus in Ashburn, Virginia called Janelia Research Campus in October 2006. It is modeled after AT&T's Bell Labs and the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology . With a main laboratory building nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) long, it contains 760,000 square feet (71,000 m ) of enclosed space, used primarily for research. The campus also features apartments for visiting researchers. In 2007, HHMI and
713-428: The institute's profile increased from an annual budget of $ 4 million in 1975 to $ 15 million in 1978 and prior to Hughes Aircraft sale the number had peaked to $ 200 million per year. At the time of the sale Hughes Aircraft employed 75,000 people and vast amounts of money from the approximate annual revenue of $ 6 billion were put into Hughes Aircraft internal research and development rather than the medical institute. Most of
744-454: The late 1950s it began funding 47 investigators doing research at eight different institutions; however, it remained a modest enterprise for several decades. The institute was initially located in Miami, Florida , in 1953. Hughes's internist, Verne Mason , who treated Hughes after his 1946 plane crash, was chairman of the institute's medical advisory committee. By 1975, Hughes was sole trustee of
775-552: The money for the medical institute came from the operations at Ground System Group responsible for providing Air Defense Systems to NATO , Pacific Rim , and the USA . In this period it focused its mission on genetics , immunology , and molecular biology . Since Hughes died without a will as the sole trustee of the HHMI, the institute was involved in lengthy court proceedings to determine whether it would benefit from Hughes's fortune. In April 1984,
806-488: The most financially successful individuals in the world. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United States . HHMI spends about $ 1 million per HHMI Investigator per year, which amounts to annual investment in biomedical research of about $ 825 million. The institute has an endowment of $ 22.6 billion , making it the second-wealthiest philanthropic organization in
837-442: The offices of primary care physicians, obstetricians/gynecologists and other specialists. Also in Norwalk, at the corner of Maple Street and West Avenue, the hospital planned a 50,000-square-foot (5,000 m) Musculoskeletal Institute to open in 2008. The hospital also opened another 50,000-square-foot (5,000 m) location for medical and office space on West Avenue. Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine
868-575: The publisher Elsevier announced they have established an agreement to make author manuscripts of HHMI research articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals publicly available six months following final publication. The agreement takes effect for articles published after September 1, 2007. In 2008, the Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute selected Robert Tjian as the new president of HHMI. In 2009, HHMI awarded fifty researchers, as part of
899-608: The school moved to Medical Hall on York Street, near Chapel (this building was razed in 1957). In 1925, the school moved to its current campus, neighboring the hospital. This campus includes the Sterling Hall of Medicine (erected in 1925), Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine (1991, designed by Cesar Pelli ), Anlyan Center (2003, designed by Payette and Venturi Scott Brown ) and the Amistad Building (2007, designed by Herbert Newman). On March 28, 2022, Jamie Petrone-Codrington,
930-579: Was generally viewed as a tax haven for Hughes's huge personal fortune. Hughes was HHMI's sole trustee and he transferred his stock of Hughes Aircraft to the institute, in effect turning the large defense contractor into a tax-exempt charity. For many years the Institute grappled with maintaining its non-profit status; the Internal Revenue Service challenged its "charitable" status which made it tax exempt. Partly in response to such claims, starting in
961-637: Was no dean. Nathan Smith, followed by Jonathan Knight, provided leadership in the early years. 41°18′10″N 72°56′10″W / 41.3027°N 72.936°W / 41.3027; -72.936 Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute ( HHMI ) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase , Maryland . It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes , an American business magnate , investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist , known during his lifetime as one of