Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (Basset 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 Bassett Cancer Institute.

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. Joseph Wiley Ferrebee 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 Johns 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

References
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