Clinical Innovations
Through a generous gift from philanthropist Beatrice Renfield, YSN established The Beatrice Renfield - Yale School of Nursing Clinical Research Initiatives Fund.
The main goal of the Fund is two-fold, to support research that examines the impact of clinical nursing interventions on patient care, and to disseminate those findings to all relevant audiences.
This program directly aligns with the School's mission to improve health care for all people
focusing on clinical innovations.
The Clinical Initiatives Fund supports projects that focus on the effectiveness of nursing interventions, as well as projects that demonstrate and examine patient care delivery models.
Mrs. Renfield's gift helps seasoned clinicians and scholars to systematically demonstrate and evaluate nursing interventions that hold serious promise to improve the care of patients, build and test models of nursing care delivery that result in effective patient-centered care, and support the translation and demonstration of these findings using the most effective dissemination strategies available.
Beatrice Renfield was senior executive of Renfield Importers, created by her father, Joseph. A longtime supporter of theater and the arts, she subsequently became one of nursing's leading philanthropists.
She became a trustee and patron of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, establishing a fund in 1990 for the support and development of its nursing staff.
The Beatrice Renfield Division of Nursing Education and Research was named in her honor.
The Beatrice Renfield Center for Nursing was established at the medical center in 2002 as a place for nurses to foster growth in nursing that will serve as a conduit to educational advancement, to
promote innovative thinking and creative problem solving based on the original philosophy of Florence Nightingale, and to create research platforms and opportunities for personal renewal for the hospital's nurses and allied health professionals.
She was also a trustee of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) and donated $1 million in 2002 to endow the Beatrice Renfield Nursing Research Program at the VNSNY, to "strengthen the evidence base of home nursing practice."
Beatrice Renfield was a member of the board of directors of the VNSNY and Beth Israel Medical Center. She formerly served on the boards of the Wiltwyck School, the Agnes de Mille Heritage Dance Theater,
Withrow Legal Ethics, the Rockefeller University Council, and Deep Springs College.
She was a continuing benefactor and patron to Lincoln Center Theater, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Mrs. Renfield, who died in September 2002, believed that excellence in nursing is the foundation of quality healthcare. The innovations she supported have created new visions and models of nursing care.
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