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For Second Year In Row, Bassett Receives Statewide Quality Award BOLTON LANDING – For a second year in a row, Bassett Hospital received a Pinnacle Award for Quality & Patient Safety from HANYS, the Healthcare Association of New York State, meeting at The Sagamore resort here. “This year, Bassett was recognized for its highly successful work to improve outcomes of patients living with diabetes and hypertension,” President/CEO Vance Brown and COO Ronette Wiley said in a statement.…
Bassett Promotes Dr. LeCates To Vice President For Quality COOPERSTOWN – Dr. William LeCates, Bassett Hospital medical director, has taken on the additional title of vice president of medical affairs, President & CEO Vance Brown announced today. In his new role, LeCates will oversee the Care Management & Clinical Excellence program, including “quality management, clinical effectiveness, infection control, risk management, accreditation and regulatory readiness,” Brown said.…
Doctor Wins Donnall Prize For Linking Fainting, Clots COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Umair Iqbal, in his second year of training at Bassett Hospital, has won the 2017 E. Donnall Thomas Award for research linking fainting spells to blood clots in the lungs. “More than 40 percent of patients who are evaluated in the emergency room with fainting are discharged with an unknown cause,” said Iqbal, whose research project competed with nine others for the award. “Syncope (passing out) is sometimes the…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MAY 11 Musical Open Mic MUSIC AT THE MANSION – 6:30-8 p.m. Free event features open mic for solo and small ensemble musicians followed by an intermission and then a featured performance. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www.canoneonta.org/calendar/ HISTORY PROGRAM – 6:30 p.m. Dr. John Davis, retired physician & hospital historian, presents on Dr. M.I. Bassett & The History of Bassett Hospital. Kinney Memorial Library, Cty. Hwy. 11, Hartwick.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 13 History Of WWI, Bassett Hospital FIND HOLY WEEK SERVICES HERE! HISTORY PRESENTATION – 6:30 p.m. Tom Heitz opens history season with some stories from WWI about shell shocked aviators recovering at Bassett Hospital and the good-natured hijinks they got into with the Cooperstown community. Event is free and open to all. Includes light refreshments. Kinney Memorial Library, Co. Rt. 11, Hartwick. Info, Deb Mackenzie, President Otsego County Historical Association, (607)293-6635 ART RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Opening of…
IN MEMORIAM Helen Tabor Halbert, 75; Active In Business, Grange GILBERTSVILLE – Helen Tabor Halbert, secretary to top executives and an officer in the state Grange, passed from this earthly life in the quietness of her Gilbertsville home that she loved so much in the early evening hours on March 20, 2017. Her struggle with cancer the past year ended with her husband, sister-in-law and pastor by her side. Born on June 5, 1941, in Schenevus to parents Howard and…
IN MEMORIAM: Henry ‘Hank’ Zigon, 87; Plumbing, HVAC Expert; Accordion Player OAKSVILLE – Henry (Hank) T. Zigon, 87, died Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, at his longtime home in Oaksville. Born July 7, 1929 in Forest City, Pa., Hank was the son of Joseph and Frances (Sirca) Zigon. He and his family moved to the Oaksville area in 1942 and five years later Hank graduated from Cooperstown High School, Class of ’47”.…
Chief Of Cardiology McNulty Leaves Bassett Hospital Today COOPERSTOWN – Today is Dr. Patrick McNulty’s last as chief of Bassett Hospital’s Cardiology Division. “Pat has tirelessly built a premier cardiac program. Under Pat’s stewardship, the size of the division has increased by several-fold,” Drs. Charles Hyman and Steven Heneghan, respective chief of the medical staff and chief of clinical services, in a statement.…