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Bassett CEO: How To Expand

Is ‘Huge Strategic Question’

For an hour, and a half-hour of Q&A that followed, Bassett CEO Vance Brown detailed the challenges the health system faces in shifting from a fee-for-service system to an outcomes-based system required under Obamacare. In response to a question from Sam Wilcox, the retired Bassett psychologist, Brown said how to expand in the future is "a huge strategic questions for us," given the eight-county system is hemmed in by Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Binghamton. Perhaps an expansion of virtual services is part of the answer, he suggested. (JIm Kevlin/The Freeman's Journal)
For an hour, and a half-hour of Q&A that followed, Bassett CEO Vance Brown detailed the challenges the eight-county healthcare system faces in shifting from a fee-for-service system to an outcomes-based system required under Obamacare. In response to a question from Sam Wilcox, the retired Bassett psychologist, front left, Dr. Brown said how to expand in the future is “a huge strategic question for us,” given Bassett is hemmed in by Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Binghamton. Perhaps an expansion of virtual services is part of the answer, he suggested.  Brown spoke to a full house in Cooperstown’s Village Hall, part of the Friends of the Village Library’s Sunday Series.  (Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal)

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