April 2, 2015 • Vol 38 • No. 7

What were you doing in 1989? Forty Yale New Haven Health System employees were just beginning their careers at Bridgeport, Greenwich or Yale New Haven hospitals. The system honored these individuals for 25 years of service with their induction into the Quarter Century Club March 11, during a luncheon at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. More than 325 people, including members of management and former inductees, also attended.

At a press conference on the state's first eight-patient kidney transplant exchange, which took place at Yale New Haven Hospital March 3, surgeons called the kidney donor who made the exchange possible a "hero."

But Patricia Menno-Coveney of Mystic, who donated her kidney without knowing who the recipient might be, was modest. "I just wanted to give a kidney to one person," she said. "But I'm delighted by the results."