Bassett Healthcare
Bassett Healthcare
Project Title
Telehealth: Expanding Specialty Care to Rural Hospitals
Award Amount
$977,586
Location
Cooperstown
Web Site
Date Awarded
November 16, 2006
Web-based telemedicine provides services to patients and communities that do not have ready access to specialty care. This grant to Bassett Healthcare will expand a groundbreaking program using Web-based technology to improve assessment and treatment of stroke and cardiac patients in rural areas. Grant funds support remote diagnosis and evaluation of patients.
Major program activities include: (1) implementation of the Telestroke Initiative at four affiliated hospitals by the first quarter of 2007; (2) expansion of telemedicine capabilities to incorporate cardiac evaluations and assessment of trauma in the four affiliated hospitals; (3) Web-based home evaluations of cardiac patients with congestive heart failure; (4) expansion of the stroke, cardiac, and trauma telemedicine programs to additional hospitals by the end of 2007; and (5) expansion of clinical consultative services in the inpatient unit, ICU, and other sites in the affiliated hospitals by mid-2008.
Bassett Healthcare is a regional health system of four hospitals and 23 community health centers serving residents of an eight-county region in central New York.