A national search for a new president to lead A.O. Fox Hospital in Oneonta has ended with the selection of a health care executive from Paterson, New Jersey. Bassett Healthcare Network President and CEO Dr. Vance Brown and A.O. Fox Hospital Board of Directors chair Sarah Patterson announced Tuesday that Jeff Joyner, previously System Vice President for Operations at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, Paterson, NJ, has been named President of Fox Hospital effective January 1st 2016. He succeeds John Remillard who announced his plans to retire earlier this year after 27 years leading the hospital through a number of expansion and modernization projects as well as the affiliation with Bassett Healthcare Network in 2009.

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