Bassett Healthcare and affiliates is a system of physicians, providers, hospitals and community health centers in eight counties, covering 5,000 square miles. The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (doing business as Bassett Healthcare), the foundation for this network, is a 180-bed, acute care inpatient teaching facility in Cooperstown. The hospital maintains a strong academic program and rich tradition as a center for learning, having had a formal affiliation with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons since 1947. The Bassett Clinic is located on the same campus as the hospital and provides outpatient primary and specialty care. Additionally, Bassett offers 24-hour emergency and trauma care, comprehensive cancer care and heart care, dialysis, and most medical and surgical specialties in Cooperstown. The Bassett Research Institute conducts programs in basic science, clinical science, and population and public health studies.

Bassett Healthcare employs over 2800 people and provides primary, preventive, and outpatient care at 25 health centers and operates 13 school-based health centers. In addition to MIBH, acute inpatient care is provided at affiliated sites: O'Connor Hospital in Delhi, Cobleskill Regional Hospital and Little Falls Hospital. Around the clock emergency care is provided at a fourth affiliate, Tri-Town Regional Hospital in Delaware County. Outpatient specialty care is available throughout the region with Bassett specialists seeing patients at many of the health centers and Bassett-affiliated sites.

The 230 member Bassett Physician Group is one of the largest group practices in New York state, with board-certified providers in more than 35 medical and surgical subspecialities offering services not typically found in a rural region.

Awards:

• 2008 Computer World Laureate for “leveraging technology to benefit society”.
• 2007 Top 25 Connected Hospital by Health Imaging & IT magazine
• Magnet Hospital for sustained nursing excellence.
• 2007, 2005 Jackson Award for highest community perception of quality.
• 2006 Honored by HANYS for “Building the Foundation of a Culture of Safety”.
• 2006 Bassetts School-Based Health Centers named Outstanding Rural Health Program by the National Rural Health Association in 2006.
• 2006 Bassett Healthcare awarded a grant to develop a Perinatal Quality Review System to serve as the statewide model for New York.
• GWTG-Stroke Initial Performance Achievement Award for implementing higher standard of stroke care.