Oneonta Physician Appointed CEO

At Bassett’s Delhi, Sidney Hospitals

COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Carlton Rule of Oneonta has been appointed CEO of both O’Connor Hospital in Delhi and Tri-Town Regional Hospital in Sidney, Bassett Healthcare President/CEO Vance Brown announced today.

He succeeds Dan Ayres, who is returning to his native West Virginia to become CEO of Summersville Regional Medical Center.

In addition to his new responsibilities, Dr. Rule will continue as medical director of Bassett Healthcare Network health centers in Delhi, Andes, Stamford and Walton. Meanwhile, a successor for him at Bassett Family Medicine/Oneonta, where Dr. Rule has been seeing patients since 2012, is being recruited.

In making the announcement, Dr. Brown praised Rule’s “strong leadership skills and the experience and knowledge,” and said he will be responble for “balancing cost and quality issues.”

Rule, a doctor for 20 years who joined Bassett in 2001, had been Fox Hospital executive vice president and assisted with its transition into the Bassett Network. He has also been medical director at First Community Care of Bassett and At Home Care.

A Cornell graduate, he received his M.D. from New York University Medical School and served his residency at Highland Hospital. He is certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine.