HERKIMER, N.Y. — Bassett Healthcare Network’s Valley Health Services will use a $15,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties to support the organization’s safe patient handling program.
The grant from the Wesley and Marion Small Fund of the Community Foundation will help Valley Health Services purchase lift and transfer equipment used to safely lift and transfer bariatric patients.
“This generous funding advances our safe patient handling program,” Lisa Betrus, president of Valley Health and Valley Residential Services, said in the Bassett announcement. “This is vital to the care we provide every day for our residents.”
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Betrus also serves as senior VP and chief strategy officer for Bassett Healthcare Network.
Valley Health Services is a 160-bed, long-term care and rehabilitation facility in Herkimer that was founded in 1984. Valley Health Services provides health-care services, including rehabilitation, long-term care, and palliative care.
About Bassett Healthcare Network
Bassett Healthcare Network is a health-care system that provides care and services for people living in a 5,600-square-mile region in upstate New York. The organization includes five corporately affiliated hospitals, over two dozen community-based health centers, more than 20 school-based health centers, two skilled-nursing facilities, and other health partners in related fields.
