Senior Services

Bassett Healthcare Network offers Adult Day Center services in Herkimer that provide your loved one with a safe, engaging enviroment with the convenience of care while their caregiver is unable to during the day. Adult Day Centers offer a social enviroment and recreational activities, including day trips regularly, all while being accompanied by friendly staff to provide medical care, if needed.

The Adult Day Center provides complete care for anyone with a health condition, while providing fun, engaging activities for the day.

A clinical specialty program designed to optimize the quality of life for those individuals diagnosed with a cardiovascular disorder:

• Post operative cardiac care coordinated with surgeon to optimize treatment goals
• CHF management
• Anticoagulation education and monitoring
• Dietary management
• Administration of I.V. therapies, such as lasix and dobutamine
• Rehabilitative exercise program
• Assistance with personal care, as necessary

Read more about Bassett's cardiac services here

A prescriptive program targeted at optimizing patient knowledge, compliance and adaptation to disease, and reduce the incidence of emergent care and frequency of rehospitalization:

• Professional nursing
• Respiratory therapy
• Physical therapy
• Registered dietician
• Home health aide, as necessary

Bassett Healthcare Network hospitals have achieved designation as NICHE hospitals. NICHE stands for Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders and is the only national designation indicating a hospital’s commitment to elder care excellence.

Bassett Healthcare Network offers comfortable long-term care at three nursing facilities in Central New York. 

A.O. Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta offers 24-hour nursing care, rehabilitation, nutritional services, social services, and spiritual care to residents and patients undergoing rehabilitative care.

Valley Health Services in Herkimer is a premier long-term and rehabilitative care facility that provides skilled nursing and long-term care, short-term inpatient rehabilitative care, outpatient rehabilitation, cardiac rehabilitation, adult day care, and a palliative care center. 

Valley Residential Services located in a rural area of East Herkimer offers carefree senior living. Our apartment housing within the facility promotes dignity, privacy, and independence while providing assistance with daily needs and convenience of care 24/7.

A clinical specialty program specifically designed to address the long-term planning and complex care needs of individuals and families

• Home visits by palliative care certified RN
• Home visit by palliative care-focused MSW, if indicated
• Pain management support
• Clarification of end of life goals
• Advanced directive support
• Facilitation of patient and family conversation that might not otherwise occur

Assisted living in the comfort, safety and familiarity of your own home. Care is provided by Home Health Care Aides and Assistants who are:

• Criminal background screened prior to hire
• Licensed
• Bonded
• Certified
• Supervised

Learn more about Home Health Care here.

Bassett Healthcare Nework offers complete orthopedic care to our patients. Our advance practice begins with preventative care, exploring options to keep your joints healthy, and you out of surgery. Should you need surgery, our physicians and staff have dedicated themselves to providing the best possible care and treatment for joints, spines, tendons and ligaments. We continue to care for our patients by providing rehabilitation to our patients at convenient location across Central New York. Learn more here.

Rehabilitation and Therapy services are offered throughout Bassett Healthcare Networks facilities across Central New York, providing care close to home. Bassett's rehabilitation offers specialized, focused, comprehensive care, whether a patient is being treated for a one-time problem or for a long-term condition. Learn more here about our rehabilitation services and locations here.

Bassett Healthcare Network also has a skilled team of vascular surgeons that are board certified to treat venous and arterial issues, such as vericose veins, chronic venous insufficiency, acute thrombosis, abdominal aortic aneuryms, carotid artery problems, and more. Learn more about out treatments and services here.

Bassett Healthcare Network - Center for Wound Healing use scientifically advanced, proven therapies, like the most advanced dressings and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help heal patients who suffer from chronic and non-healing wounds. Learn more about our wound care services here.