Shay Taylor-Allen was born at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she worked as a cleaner for ten years after graduating high school[1][2][4]. On Friday, she learned that she had been accepted into the anesthesiology residency program at the Yale School of Medicine at the same hospital[1][2][3]. She studied at Howard University College of Medicine, from which she will graduate in May[1][2]. After that, she joins the Yale Department of Anesthesiology[1] as a resident. She was raised by her mother as a single mother in New Haven, and when her mother became ill, she turned to the hospital's then director for help with a diagnosis.[2] A Match Day video of her opening the acceptance letter with her husband and mother went viral[2][4]. Yale School of Medicine welcomed her as a new doctor[1]. Shay Taylor-Allen's story illustrates her journey from hospital administrator to physician at the same hospital[1][2][3].