Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

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Coordinates: 42°41′44″N 74°55′25″W / 42.6956°N 74.9237°W / 42.6956; -74.9237

The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (Bassett Medical Center) is a teaching hospital in Cooperstown, New York. The hospital has 180 beds. It is associated with Columbia University.

It is home to the .

History[]

Some of the early work on bone marrow transplants was performed here by Nobel prize winner E. Donnall Thomas and his wife Dottie Thomas. was also a transplant scientist working at the hospital.

  A history of Bassett Hospital [“Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York: 200 years of Health Care in Rural America”], written by John S. Davis, M.D., a retired Bassett Gastroenterologist, was published in 2017.

Publishing[]

The hospital has published a number of works including

  • Clinical Miscelleny vols 1 & 2, 1930s

Further reading[]

  • Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (1930). The Mary Imogene Bassett hospital, Cooperstown, New York. New York. OCLC 34228694., 31 pp

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