Scott Childers
Missouri native Scott Childers has joined Mercy Hospital Lebanon as its new administrator. Childers brings more than three decades of health care experience to his new role, most recently as assistant administrator at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. An Army veteran, Childers is most proud of his 25-year stint in the U.S. Armed Forces.
“I enlisted when I was 17, straight out of high school,” said Childers, who has lived in 14 different states and two foreign countries. “From being stationed at Fort Leonard Wood three separate times as a medic to leading combat troops in Kuwait and Iraq, it was the experience of a lifetime.”
Childers began his health care career in 1985 as a commissioned officer responsible for medical services in the 10th Cavalry in Fort Carson, Colorado. He led combat units through 1999, when he assumed the role as director of clinical operations for the 18th Medical Command in South Korea. For two years, he developed a network of hospitals for those serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Following the September 11 attacks, he served as chief operating officer for Kenner Army Health Center, managing the organization’s response to the tragedy. In 2005, Childers retired as lieutenant colonel.
