Mark Clapp, M.D.Chief Executive Officer

Mark Clapp, M.D., is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Rural Health, LLC–a company committed to saving lives, preserving rural hospitals, and protecting the rural way of life

Dr. Clapp holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Tennessee. With over 36 years of experience in the medical field, his background includes obstetrics, family medicine, wound care, hospitalist services, and emergency medicine. He currently serves part-time as an emergency room physician.

In 2000, Dr. Clapp became a managing partner of the Ambulatory Center of Wartburg. Alongside his medical partners, he revitalized the closed facility–previously shuttered by a tertiary system–into a successful diagnostic center featuring MRI, CT, a surgery suite, and a team of seven primary care providers. The center remains active and thriving today.

In 2006, Dr. Clapp co-founded Restoration Healthcare with his brother. The company acquired three struggling hospitals and implemented a pioneering joint ownership model with physicians to keep them operational. Though changes in federal regulations regarding physician ownership led to their eventual exit, all three hospitals were stable and viable at the time of their departure.

Dr. Clapp and his wife have lived in Jamestown, Tennessee for the past 32 years. They are proud parents of three children and grandparents to seven grandchildren.