AO Fox Memorial Hospital

AO Fox Memorial Hospital is not an EMR/EHR vendor but rather a 22-bed critical access hospital located in Oneonta, New York, serving as a community healthcare facility within the Bassett Healthcare Network. Founded in 1906, the hospital provides acute care services to residents of northern Delaware County and surrounding rural communities in upstate New York.

As a member of the Bassett Healthcare Network since its integration, AO Fox utilizes Epic Systems as its electronic health record platform, aligning with the network-wide implementation that provides standardized clinical documentation, order entry, and patient management capabilities across all Bassett facilities. This integration allows for seamless care coordination and information sharing across the broader network, which includes Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown and other affiliated facilities.

The hospital operates as a critical access hospital (CAH) designation, which is specifically designed for small, rural facilities that provide essential healthcare services to underserved populations. This designation requires maintaining 25 or fewer acute care inpatient beds and being located more than 35 miles from another hospital, criteria that AO Fox meets while serving the northern Catskill region.

Clinical services at AO Fox include emergency medicine (24/7 emergency department), inpatient medical/surgical care, obstetrics, orthopedics, cardiology, general surgery, physical therapy, and diagnostic imaging. The hospital also operates specialty clinics and outpatient services that extend primary and specialty care access to the rural community.

Any references to AO Fox Memorial Hospital as an EMR/EHR vendor appear to be data classification errors. The hospital is an end-user of healthcare information technology systems, not a developer or vendor of such systems. Organizations seeking EMR/EHR solutions should look to actual software vendors like Epic Systems, which AO Fox employs for its own clinical operations, rather than the hospital itself.