Grantee Name
Bassett Healthcare
Funding Area
Special Projects Fund
Publication Date
August 2010
Grant Amount
$977,586
Grant Date:
January 2007— July 2009
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORTPatients who live in rural areas may be unable to get timely, high-quality medical care when they experience an acute medical crisis.
To address this issue, Bassett Healthcare (Bassett) explored and developed the use of telemedicine across its system of care in central upstate New York. Bassett developed a Telestroke initiative to enable suspected stroke patients in rural areas distant from the Stroke Center at Bassett’s central facility in Cooperstown to receive specialty consultation without having to be brought there.