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...odds, the 2,600 citizens of Cooperstown. N.Y., ought to be getting some of the worst health care in the nation. Every statistic shows that rural medicine lags far behind what is available in urban areas. Good city hospitals lure the best doctors from nearby medical schools; they get the most research money, clinical practice and high-fee patients. But Cooperstown, a dairy-and poultry-farming community 200 miles northwest of New York City, is a remarkable exception. Reason: it has the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a mini-medical center that ranks among the best...
...unique as it is unexpected, the Bassett Hospital is a 183-bed facility only a long fly ball away from Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame. Its secret is superb organization. Named for its first chief of staff, the hospital opened its doors in 1922, only to close them three years later without raising the level of medical care in the community. In 1927, the hospital opened again, this time under a then radically new concept: group practice designed to provide full medical care for the entire community...
...does, better than anyone else around, was borne out by the message Baltimore fans inscribed on third base last week: "Brooks plays here." As a more lasting memento, Robinson was asked to turn in his glove so that it could be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Shrugged Brooks: "I guess I'll just have to break in a new glove in spring training...
CACTUS FLOWER'S bachelor dentist gets an assistant for his love intrigues at Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 4-9 with Barry Nelson; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 18-23; Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 12-16; Nyack, N.Y., Aug. 18-23; Hendersonville, Tenn., through Aug. 24; East Hampton, L.I., Aug. 25-30; and Cooperstown, N.Y., Sept...
...LION IN WINTER re-creates the frosty family politics of Henry H's 12th century England in Hampton, N.H., Aug. 11-16; Cooperstown, N.Y., Aug. 19-31; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 25-30; and Orleans, Mass...