Yale Consolidates Its Freestanding Psychiatric Institute And Teaching Hospital; Connecticut Asks Facilities To Suspend Downsizing Until 2001

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Yale University has obtained permission to consolidate Yale Psychiatric Institute with Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), as Connecticut attempts to hold the line on behavioral health downsizing. Last week, the Connecticut Office of Health Care Access (OHCA) authorized the integration of the psychiatric services of Yale Psychiatric Institute (YPI), the University's private, freestanding 66-bed facility, with Yale-New Haven Hospital, a non-stock, nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation which is the primary teaching hospital for the Yale University School of Medicine. OHCA told OPEN MINDS that the . . .