YNHHS celebrates Compliance Week beginning March 30
Yale New Haven Health System, Yale Medicine and Yale Health Center are joining forces to celebrate the role Compliance plays across our organizations – from patient care to business functions to daily operations. The theme for the week is “Don’t be fooled: Integrity matters every day!” Learn how this shared commitment to ethics, integrity and excellence protects our patients, coworkers and organizations. Join the fun starting Monday, March 30 with Kahoot!, an online trivia game. Watch your email and the intranet for quick tips and surprises on March 31 and April 2. Meet our Compliance teams April 1 at onsite information tables or while they are rounding in department sor connecting virtually.
Activities sponsored by: Yale New Haven Health Compliance and Cybersecurity; Yale Medicine Compliance; Yale HIPAA Office; and Yale Health Center Compliance and Privacy.
April is Donate Life Month: Save a life
Did you know the wait list for an organ transplant grows by one person every eight minutes? Donate Life Month in April helps increase awareness of the ongoing need for organ donors, which impacts more than 100,000 people nationwide awaiting a transplant. Yale New Haven Transplantation Center performs liver and kidney transplants with organs from living or deceased donors; living donor recipients have better outcomes. Liver donors donate a portion of their liver; the remaining lobe of the donor’s liver regenerates fully. Kidney donors donate a full kidney.
As of early March, the transplant wait list at Yale New Haven Transplantation Center was 644 for kidney transplant and 86 for liver transplant; nationwide, the wait list, according to The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, was 94,432 for kidney transplant and 8,831 for liver transplant . Heart transplants are performed through the Yale New Haven Health Heart and Vascular Center; the Connecticut heart candidate wait list was nearly 40 in early March.
Learn more about organ donation and register to become an organ donor
2026 Donate Life Month activities
April 1: Donate Life Living Donor Day
April 6: L+M Hospital flag-raising at the flagpole, 12:30 pm (rain date is April 7, 1 pm). Bridgeport Hospital flag-raising, 10 am
April 10: National Donate Life Blue & Green Day. Staff is encouraged to wear blue and green in honor of organ donor awareness.
April 10: Flag-raising, Yale New Haven Hospital main entrance, 10 am
April 4 - 11: Blue & Green Spirit Week
April 19 - 25: National Pediatric Transplant Week
April 26: New England Donor Services Blue & Green Walk/5K, Bloomfield, CT
During April at Bridgeport Hospital, blue and green lights will shine brightly on the hospital’s main campus, and a lobby display will focus on organ donation myths and facts.
Coming in April: THRIVE Health Coaching Women’s Health webinar series
THRIVE Health Coaches will launch a four-week Women’s Health webinar series, Wednesdays, noon -12:30 pm beginning April 1. Each session will explore key topics to empower participants with practical, science informed strategies for every stage of life. Topics include:
- April 1: Nourishing your body with foundational nutrition and lifestyle habits
- April 8: Women’s bodies through the years: what changes and why it matters
- April 15: Sustainable wellness and building a long term health plan
- April 22: Understanding stress, sleep and your nervous system
Register on the THRIVE Health Coaching page (under “Quick Links” on the THRIVE intranet site); look for “upcoming webinars.” Sessions will be recorded and posted to the THRIVE intranet. Contact [email protected] for more information or personalized support.
