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42°41′44″N 74°55′25″W / 42.6956°N 74.9237°W / 42.6956; -74.9237
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Bassett Medical Center
Bassett Healthcare Network
Geography
Location Cooperstown, New York, United States
Coordinates 42°41′44″N 74°55′25″W / 42.6956°N 74.9237°W / 42.6956; -74.9237
Organization
Type Teaching
Affiliated university Columbia University
Services
Beds180 [1]
History
Former name(s)Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
OpenedJune 1922
Links
Website www.bassett.org
Lists Hospitals in New York

The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (Bassett Medical Center) is a teaching hospital in Cooperstown, New York. The hospital opened in June 1922. [2] The hospital has 180 beds. It is associated with Columbia University. [1] [3] [4] It is home to the Bassett Cancer Institute.

History

Some of the early work on bone marrow transplants was performed here by Nobel prize winner E. Donnall Thomas and his wife Dottie Thomas. Joseph Wiley Ferrebee was also a transplant scientist working at the hospital. [5]

The Bassett Healthcare Network runs this hospital and six others, including: [6]

  • A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta and Tri-Town Campus
  • Bassett Hospital in Schoharie
  • Cobleskill Regional Hospital in Cobleskill
  • Little Falls Hospital in Little Falls
  • O’Connor Hospital in Delhi

Publishing

The hospital has published a number of works including

  • Clinical Miscelleny vols 1 & 2, 1930s

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Bassett Medical Center". American Hospital Directory. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  2. ^ "History of Bassett Healthcare". Bassett. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  3. ^ Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (1930). The Mary Imogene Bassett hospital, Cooperstown, New York. New York. OCLC 34228694.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link), 31 pp
  4. ^ "Bassett-Columbia". Columbia-Bassett. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  5. ^ David, John S., M.D. (2017). A history of Bassett Hospital: Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York: 200 years of Health Care in Rural America.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)
  6. ^ "The Bassett Community". Friends of Bassett. Retrieved January 30, 2022.