Photo: From left, Shannon Dingus, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital; Cassandra Mitchell, Bridgeport Hospital; and Ilia Chavez, Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. Athanossios Petrotos, MD, Greenwich Hospital, is not pictured.
New Haven, CT (June 18, 2025) – Yale New Haven Health is proud to announce that four employees were honored with the 2025 Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) Healthcare Heroes Award.
The 2025 CHA Healthcare Heroes Award celebrates and recognizes the invaluable contributions of exceptional healthcare workers, both to their field and to the community at large. This year, the award was presented to an outstanding individual from each Connecticut hospital.
Yale New Haven Health heroes honored were:
Since 2002, CHA has included a celebration of healthcare heroes as part of its Annual Meeting, which took place on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. At the event, healthcare heroes, who represent all types of care from every corner of Connecticut’s hospitals, received a certificate from CHA and a Proclamation from the Office of Governor Ned Lamont.
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
