Inpatient Facility and Nursing Support

Hospital Research Unit (HRU)

The Hospital Research Unit (HRU) is available for adult and pediatric inpatient studies as well as more complex high risk outpatient studies. Well known for its skilled nursing staff that places a premium on patient safety, the HRU is open overnight three nights per week and one weekend per month. Since becoming part of YCCI, the unit has increased its volume of protocols, accommodating over a thousand patients each year.  Besides supplying expert nursing care, the HRU has a bionutritional unit to support the nutritional components of the studies conducted there. The unit has a metabolic kitchen for preparing meals for research diets, which can be manipulated for a single nutrient or multiple nutrients. In addition, experienced nutrition staff members are available to prepare controlled research diets and work with adult and pediatric participants on implementing dietary regimens. The HRU also houses a clinical dexa unit where investigators can request bone densitometry or body composition scans at discounted research prices. The HRU has a historical association with high-risk intensive studies in such areas as diabetes, but it has also added newly equipped outpatient space and can accommodate a wide variety of studies.

Highly skilled research nursing supports the Hospital Research Unit (HRU), including such specialized research skills and techniques as insulin-glucose clamps; management of arterial lines; support for a wide range of imaging studies and administration of stable isotopes; chemotherapy; and the use of an array of investigational drugs.

Researchers who would like to utilize the HRU should contact Theresa Katz at 785-6335 or theresa.katz@yale.edu.

YCCI Outpatient Facility

• Susan Anderson
  Administrator for Clinical Research Services and Subject Advocacy
  2 Church Street South, Ste 113
  Phone: (203) 785-2902
  susan.anderson@yale.edu
• Yvette Strong
  Clinical Receptionist
  2 Church Street South, Ste 113
  Phone: (203) 785-2506
  yvette.strong@yale.edu

Inpatient Participant and Clinical Interactions Resource (Hospital)

• Shelley Britt, RN, MSN
  Patient Services Manager
  Yale-New Haven Hospital
  20 York St., EP 10-6, rm. 10-522
  Phone: (203) 688-4106
  shelley.britt@ynhh.org