Svigals + Partners faced multiple challenges in delivering a healthcare facility capable of supporting YCSC’s mission and range of services, particularly given the building was originally designed to support use by a telephone company. Not only is this more user-friendly for patients and their families, it creates a supportive research and work environment that fosters collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas.” “Adapting 350 George has produced a single facility to serve as a home for both treatment and study.
“YCSC research and services had been spread out over multiple New Haven locations, including Yale School of Medicine,” said Svigals + Partners associate principal Lynn Brotman, NCIDQ, IIDA, who led the project. The new facility consolidates all of YCSC’s operations under one roof for the first time since it began serving children and their families in 1911. Intensive-outpatient services are located on the first floor, patient care and family support services are located on the second floor, and administrative and research offices are on the third. Now occupying a 55,000-square-foot former telephone company building at 350 George Street in New Haven, CT, YCSC functions as the Department of Child Psychiatry for both Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine. Featuring original, architecturally integrated artwork, a recently-completed renovation project brings all of Yale Child Study Center’s (YCSC) operations and staff together under one roof, in a setting that supports outpatient treatment and research related to children’s behavioral health.