‘Small Explosion’ Injures 2 At Bassett By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Two construction workers were injured when a “small explosion” occurred near the hospital’s receiving dock this morning, with one injured severely enough to require transport to Upstate Medical in Syracuse. According to Karen Huxtable-Hooker, public and media relations director, the accident happened this morning, when a contractor was transporting equipment in an exterior service stairwell connected to a construction site.…
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‘Nurses’ Hopeful Eyes’ Grip COVID-19 Patient Delhi Artist Recalls Narrow Escape From Bassett News Service COOPERSTOWN – This fall, Horace “Glenn” Lee, who spent weeks in Bassett Hospital’s intensive care unit last spring fighting COVID-19, returned to the ICU to thank the doctors and nurses who saved his life. “I was in the hospital for 37 days total, three weeks in Cooperstown’s ICU and two weeks in rehabilitation at O’ Connor Hospital in Delhi,” said Lee, a 69-year-old contemporary American…
3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Three of the latest five cases of COVID-19 reported were Bassett Hospital employees, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director. “We don’t know where (two) employees picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said. The three cases are part of a five-day spike that saw an additional 18 cases throughout the county, nine at…
Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In his three months as CEO/president, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim is increasingly impressed by Bassett Healthcare Network’s local significance. “In our service area, we’re it,” he said in an interview Monday, Sept. 28. “We have an obligation to serve the people in it.” In the past two months, he has announced 10 members of his Executive Leadership Team, including Fox Hospital President Jeff Joyner as chief…
Three Bassett Employees Test Positive For COVID-19 COOPERSTOWN – Three of the five cases of COVID-19 reported in county residents were employees at Bassett Hospital, according to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. “We don’t know where the employee picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said.…
MALLORY DELANEY MET CHALLENGE Helping People Captured ‘Distinction’ For Honoree By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For certified Physician’s Assistant Mallory Delaney, medicine isn’t about talking to a patient. It’s about listening. “You want to get people to feel like they’re in the driver’s seat,” she said. “No matter what road they’re going to go down.” For example, she said, it was easier to get patients to wear masks if they knew it would keep a parent or…
Peers Honor Dr. Dalton With Excellence Award Prize Named For Dr. Frank, His Mentor COOPERSTOWN – Dr. James Dalton, MD, Bassett Hospital’s Medical Education director for 18 years, has been awarded the Healthcare Network’s most prestigious recognition for a physician, the Walter A. Franck Physician Excellence Award. The award was established to honor of Dr. Frank, the rheumatologist who retired from Bassett in 2015 after more than four decades of service, to a doctor who emulates his service to patients,…
Bassett Can’t Turn Away Patients Without Masks All Must Be Treated, But Visitors, Staff, All Others Must Don Them COOPERSTOWN – Though all employees, visitors and vendors are required to wear a mask in Bassett Healthcare facilities, the hospital confirmed that no patient will be denied treatment for refusing to wear a mask. “It is still the exception that anyone coming to the hospital or clinics refuses to wear a mask,” said Karen Huxtable-Hooker, public relations director. “But Bassett cannot turn…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, JUNE 16 Baseball With Hall Of Famer Joe Torre BASEBALL DISCUSSION – 11 a.m. Join this virtual Legends of the Game featuring Joe Torre discussing his career as player & manager (when he won 4 world championships), and his thoughts on Cooperstown. Visit baseballhall.org/events/virtual-legends-of-the-game-Joe-Torre?date=0 for info.…
Integris Executive To Head Bassett By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett’s new president and CEO has been called “a man on a mission.” Just 39, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim has accomplished a great deal in a short time. He graduated from medical school at 23 and made a rapid ascent into leadership positions, most recently serving as executive vice president and chief physician executive for Integris Health System, the largest not-for-profit and state-owned health care system in…
