NEW HAVEN, CT (Feb. 7, 2025) – Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) announced the appointment of Clayton O. Mitchell, PE, CEM, to the position of senior vice president, Corporate Facilities and chief of Systems Design, Corporate Facilities and Real Estate, YNHHS. In this role, Mitchell will oversee corporate facilities strategy to ensure safe, modernized and high-quality facilities across the Health System. He will manage the Engineering Department operations that provide both preventative and repairable oversight to infrastructure systems. He also will be responsible for the System’s real estate portfolio, including both leased and owned spaces. This will include closely partnering with the Yale School of Medicine facilities and clinical space planning teams to optimize patient care space across the enterprise. Mitchell will also serve as Chief Systems Design Officer, engaged in initiatives that will assist the System to identify and implement opportunities for greater integration, synergies and operating efficiencies across the system.
Mitchell joins YNHHS after completing a year of consulting work. Prior to this, he was senior vice president of Facilities and Real Estate for Jefferson Health where he developed a governance and shared service structure for facilities, construction, and real estate that laid the groundwork for building and developing an $800 million, 19-story ambulatory tower in Center City Philadelphia. During his tenure at Jefferson Health, he helped significantly advance the system’s supplier diversity and developed a real estate rationalization program that significantly reduced both their expenses and carbon footprint.
Earlier in his career, Mitchell served as a career officer in the United States Navy, retiring after 25-years of service. His leadership roles ranged from supporting executive Navy leadership in oversight of Navy and Marine Corps infrastructure at 80 installations across the world to leading project development and design for the expansion and renovation of the military’s premier academic medical center, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. He also worked for Kaiser Permanente's Health Plan and was responsible for the health plan’s sites in Colorado and Mid-Atlantic States where he created a first-time project management office (PMO) to develop a strategic capital execution platform.
Mitchell graduated from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) State University, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and earned a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Connecticut, is recognized for advanced clinical care, quality, service, cost effectiveness and commitment to improving the health status of the communities it serves. YNHHS includes five hospitals – Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial, Westerly and Yale New Haven hospitals, several specialty networks and Northeast Medical Group, a non-profit medical foundation with several hundred community-based and hospital-employed physicians. YNHHS is affiliated with Yale University and Yale Medicine, the clinical practice of the Yale School of Medicine and the largest academic multi-specialty practice in New England. Yale New Haven Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of Yale School of Medicine. www.ynhhs.org
