Taking time to celebrate

Staff and physicians with Perioperative Services on March 24 joined YNHH leaders to officially open the newly renovated South Pavilion operating rooms and PACU. With surgeries scheduled for that morning, the rooms were put to work soon after a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Event participants included (l-r): Cynthia Sparer, senior vice president, Operations, and executive director, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital; Anne Turner, RN, patient service manager, South Pavilion OR; Maxwell Laurans, MD, clinical chief of Perioperative Services; Susan Maxwell, RN, vice president, Surgical Services; Joshua Lawrence, manager, OR Equipment and Environment of Care; Craig Odermatt, director of Operations, Perioperative Services; and Trevor Banack, MD, clinical chief, Anesthesia Services.