Leaders who signed the Sherman Tower steel beams included (l-r): Marie-Helene Gratton, vice president, Digestive Health and Urology Services; Francine LoRusso, RN, senior vice president, Operations, and executive director, Heart and Vascular, Transplant, Medicine and Radiology Services; Katherine Heilpern, MD, YNHH president; Pamela Scagliarini, senior vice president, Adams Neurosciences Center project; Joshua Morris, vice president, Finance; Alan Friedman, MD, YNHH chief medical officer; and Brooke Spadaccino, RN, vice president, Orthopedics.
Within the dark-brown steel skeleton of the Adams Neurosciences Center’s Sherman Tower, two beams stand out. Painted white, they’re covered with names, dates and messages scrawled with colorful markers. Hundreds of Yale New Haven employees signed the beams before the Dec. 4 topping-off ceremony which marked the placement of the last beams. The Sherman and adjacent McGivney patient care towers are part of the Neurosciences Center at YNHH’s Saint Raphael Campus. Scheduled to open in 2027, the Center reflects our commitment to state-of-the-art, destination neurosciences care and biomedical imaging. See the YNHH employee intranet for more beam-signing photos and watch for post-event coverage of the topping-off ceremony in the Jan. 16 Perspectives.
Jabari Sharif, Environmental Services, signed the beam at the Saint Raphael Campus.
Charlese Carr, unit associate, Perioperative Services, added her name to the Sherman Tower beam at the SRC.
