Bassett Medical Center has again been awarded the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Health officials say a second wave of influenza has struck this spring and is putting more New Yorkers in the hospital now than in January.
The Albany Times Union reports that a different strain of flu is circulating than the one in midwinter, and people who already had the flu can get it again -- especially if they didn't get the vaccine...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has decided that starting next year, patients will be protected against surprise out-of-network medical bills that have pushed some toward personal bankruptcy. The measure, signed into law this week, is scheduled to take effect next April 1st...
The Community Overdose Prevention (COP) Program will enable every state and local law enforcement officer to carry Naloxone, the antidote that can instantly reverse the effects of of an opiate overdose.
The COP Program will provide funding to equip each state and local officer with Naloxone and to train the officers to properly administer the life saving drug...
April is National Cancer Control Awareness Month: a time devoted to raising awareness of cancer prevention, detection, and treatment methods, as well giving support to cancer patients and survivors.
The Cancer Services Program of Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties provides free cancer screenings to uninsured and under-insured women ages 40-64 and men ages 50-64...
After an extensive national search that began nearly a year ago, Bassett has selected a new president.
Vance M. Brown. MD, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bassett Healthcare Network and Bassett Medical Center, effective July 1, 2014...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state's new health exchange reports more than 995,000 New Yorkers have completed applications for insurance while more than 666,000 of them have now enrolled for specific coverage.
The health department says enrollment for individual and family coverage since October includes 327,020 New Yorkers in the 16 commercial and nonprofit insurers in the exchange and 339,377 in gove
On March 6th State Police at Binghamton responded to a report of a 23-year-old male not breathing.
Upon arriving at a residence in the Town of Chenango, troopers found the unconscious man inside. After assessing the victim and finding he was not breathing, troopers administered CPR and attached an automated external defibrillator (AED), delivering one shock...
New York has reached a settlement in an investigation into the Betsy Ross Nursing and Rehabilitation Center located in Rome, NY. The nursing home was cited for discrimination on the basis of race against African-American employees.
The investigation was opened after the state attorney general’s office received multiple complaints about discrimination in the assignments of African-American nurses a
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of consumers who faced enrollment problems will get three weeks of free coverage from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the agreement follows a Department of Financial Services probe into complaints about Empire sending out member ID cards late, failing to send bills on time and other issues...