Streck, Kjolhede, Smith Named Delgado Appoints 3 From Otsego County To Healthcare Panel Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19th, included three Otsego County representatives to a 19th Congressional District Health Care Advisory Committee he announced yesterday to advise him on “skyrocketing costs of healthcare and on healthcare legislation before the House.” They are Bassett Healthcare Network President Bill Streck, Dr. Chris Kjolhede, director of Bassett’s School-Based Health Center Program, and Sue Smith, Otsego County Health Department deputy director.…
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VANCE BROWN LEAVES BASSETT Streck Returns In Interim Role; His Focus, ‘Leadership Strategy’ COOPERSTOWN – Vance M. Brown, president/CEO of the Bassett Healthcare Network for almost four years, has decided to step down, effective April 20, it was announced today. Former president/CEO Bill Streck, chief medical and health systems innovation officer at the Hospital Association of New York State (HASNY) since retiring from Bassett, will return to the organization in an interim role, the announcement said.…
Streck Sees ‘Catastrophe For The American People’ Former Bassett President: U.S. ‘Has Problem On Its Hands;’ Hopes Senate Acts Responsibly By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Retired Bassett Healthcare president Bill Streck says the American Health Care Act passed by the House of Representatives this afternoon is “a catastrophe for the American people.” “The bill is a hodge-podge of agendas absent any coherent theme other than repealing the Affordable Care Act,” he said regarding this afternoon’s 217-213 vote. “The…
Faso, Healthcare Advocates Differ On Course Of Reform By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-19, heard concerns of key local players in the national healthcare debate this afternoon, and the two sides appeared to politely disagree on a future course of action. “We have fundamental concerns that it” – the Obamacare revision being revived in Congress – “will not be an improvement over the current ACA.” said Bill Streck, retired Bassett Healthcare president,…
‘Repeal, Replace’ Bill Phony, Backers Know It, Streck Says Former Bassett CEO Speaks To Providers At Otesaga By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The American Health Care Act, proclaimed as a replacement for Obamacare, is “stealth” legislation that doesn’t do what its supporters purport it will – and they know it. Former Bassett CEO Bill Streck delivered that message today at a daylong symposium of the Leatherstocking Collaborative Health Partners at The Otesaga. The LCHP includes all providers…
BILL STRECK’S MESSAGE HOME: Repeal Of Obamacare Would Hit Here Hard The repeal of the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – would leave 5,700 Otsego County people uninsured, retired Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck, now chief medical and health systems innovation officer at HANYS (the state’s hospital association), told a mostly medical-sector crowd of 75 at Templeton Hall in Cooperstown this evening. Shifting Medicaid from an entitlement to block grants might raise county government’s costs by $700,000, he said. He also said U.S. Rep.…
‘Second Family’ Thanks Bill Streck $1.2 Million Clinic Named In Honor Of Former Bassett CEO COOPERSTOWN – Bill Streck had every reason to be humbled by the opening of the Dr. William F. Streck Health Center at Pathfinder Village. “I was talking to a friend about it, and he said, ‘Let me get this straight. Bassett starts a clinic in a farmhouse. Then you became president of Bassett. You retire. Dr. Vance Brown opens a clinic and they name it…
In Appreciation, Pathfinder Village Names Health Clinic For Dr. Streck By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com EDMESTON – Just before dignitaries this morning at Pathfinder Village held a ceremonial groundbreaking on the William F. Streck Community Health Clinic, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, announced he had obtained a $250,000 state grant which will largely complete the $1.2 million needed for the facility. Among audience members were Marian Mullen, the executive director in the early 1980s who envisioned the New England-style village that has…
Nicoletta Hailed After 27 Years In Bassett’s Top Financial Job…