Winchester Chest Outpatient Practice

The Winchester Chest Clinic at Y-NHH is the primary outpatient practice site for the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The history of the Clinic dates back decades to a bequest by Sarah Winchester, which established an endowment in the memory of her husband William Wirt Winchester and their young daughter, both of whom succumbed to tuberculosis. This bequest resulted in the establishment in the early 1900s of the original Winchester Hospital in West Haven, which was dedicated to the care of persons with tuberculosis. Over the years, the Winchester Hospital evolved from a freestanding facility to become part of Y-NHH, always with the ongoing mission of pursuing tuberculosis treatment and research. The Winchester Chest Clinic continues this tradition of commitment to tuberculosis. Presently, the Clinic serves a much broader role in research and patient care in all facets of chest diseases. General consultation is available for all pulmonary diseases. Specialty clinics for specific disease areas have also been developed over the past 10 years, which serve as referral sites for consultation, as well as centers for clinical research in those areas. The specialty centers and their directors within the Winchester Chest Clinic include tuberculosis (Lynn Tanoue, MD), asthma (Geoffrey Chupp, MD), interstitial lung disease (Danielle Antin-Ozerkis, MD), sleep medicine (Vahid Mohsenin, MD), adult cystic fibrosis (John McArdle, MD), pulmonary hypertension (John McArdle, MD, and Terry Trow, MD), COPD (Carolyn Rochester, MD), and lung cancer (Lynn Tanoue, MD).

Patient visits to the Clinic have increased substantially over the last ten years. This growth has been ably facilitated by the Clinic staff, led by nurse manager Joyce D'Amato. Mrs. D'Amato has managed the Clinic since 1972. She, along with the rest of the clinic staff, have been vital resources to patients and physicians and deserve great praise for the effort they give. The quality of care in Winchester Chest Clinic has been nationally recognized by Press Ganey Compass Awards.