Bassett Healthcare Network, MMRI plan to collaborate on health research and outcomes

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Cooperstown–based Bassett Healthcare Network and the Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) of Utica plan a new collaborative initiative to “further the advancement of health research and outcomes in Central New York and beyond.”

Over the coming months, the two organizations will work together to identify ways that they can “better help local communities,” per Bassett’s news release.

“By leveraging each of our strengths, I am confident that this new relationship will lead to discoveries in science and medicine that we could not have achieved independently,” Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, president and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network, said.

About the organizations

Bassett Healthcare Network is a health system that provides care and services to people living in a 5,600-square-mile region. 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.

MMRI focuses on scientific research that seeks to improve the “health and quality of life for all.” Founded by the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of New York, the MMRI says it “embodies the Masonic principles of relief, charity, and truth.”