Ed Clayton

Ed Clayton, the current CFO and COO to Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, Mo., has been promoted as the hospital’s new CEO. Clayton has worked for the hospital for the last 14 years and has worked in many different positions including CFO, COO and the administrative director of finance for four years as well as the hospital controller. He will be succeeding the current CEO starting in the beginning of 2016. He plans to add more specialty-care physicians as well as provide a larger primary care workforce. Clayton has worked in the accounting department for consulting firm Olive as well as Blue Cross Blue Shield in Illinois. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale as well as a Masters of Business Administration from Webster University.