Friends of Bassett helps you focus your giving on specific areas of need through our capital campaigns.

Past campaigns have assisted with building primary-care facilities in Delhi and Andes, creating the Bassett Heart Care Institute, and renovating the Bassett Birthing Center in Cooperstown.

UV Light Technology — Saving Lives
UV Light Technology — Saving Lives

UV Light Technology — Saving Lives

If anything brought home the value of a disease-free environment, it was the pandemic. The importance of being able to sterilize areas within the hospital quickly, for patient safety, rose to the top of mind.

Bassett Healthcare Network uses ultraviolet light disinfection technology to rapidly and effectively eliminate pathogens in the clinical space. Now, in order to cover more areas with this essential equipment, the Friends of Bassett is raising funds from the community to support the purchase of four more UV sterilizers.

Bringing more equipment on line throughout the Network will ensure quicker turnaround times for operating suites, patient rooms, and recovery areas, freeing up time for our practitioners to care for more members of our community.

You can help bring additional UV sterilizers to our hospitals by supporting this campaign.  To make a donation or find out more, contact the Friends of Bassett at friends.office@bassett.org or call (607) 547-3928. Thank you!

COVID-19 Response Fund
COVID-19 Response Fund

COVID-19 Response Fund

In early March of 2020, even before the pandemic was officially declared a national emergency in the United States, Bassett Healthcare Network preparations to care for our community were already underway.

A full-time incident command response team was stood up, and network-wide standards for personal protective equipment (PPE) were quickly rolled out. A telephone triage line for worried community members and those who might have COVID was made live.

The line would eventually handle an average of just under 1,000 calls per week. Testing sites were erected outside the hospitals to evaluate patients while keeping all safe. Throughout last year, nearly 130,000 tests would be performed.

The pandemic requires a tremendous amount of PPE. Approximately 10,000,000 gloves, 500,000 gowns, 500,000 procedure masks, 100,000 N95 respirators, 10,000 tubs of disinfecting wipes, and 20,000 face shields were needed for front-line staff in 2020 alone.
It took a remarkable effort to rapidly respond to the pandemic—an effort fueled by the support and generosity of you and your neighbors. The pandemic created extraordinary expenses for Bassett Healthcare Network, and your gifts help to defray these costs. Without your help, we would not be able to do so much so quickly. Thank you!