Baptist Attala and Baptist Yazoo name new CEOs
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 9, 2025– Baptist Memorial Health Care recently named new CEOs for Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo.
Allison Schuler is CEO/chief nursing officer of Baptist Attala and Stefanie Dendy is CEO of Baptist Yazoo. These leaders succeed Mac Flynt who was recently named administrator/CEO of OCH Regional Medical Center, now known as Baptist Memorial Hospital-Oktibbeha County. Flynt served in the administrator/CEO role for Baptist Attala and Baptist Yazoo from April 2023 to September 2025.
“I am thrilled to announce these two well-deserved promotions,” said James Grantham, vice president and administrator of Mississippi Operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care. “Stefanie and Allison will continue to advance Baptist’s mission of healing, preaching and teaching in Attala and Yazoo City while ensuring continued access to high-quality care.”
Schuler brings 25 years of health care experience to her new role, with a strong foundation in clinical excellence and operational leadership. In 2010, she joined Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital, now Baptist Attala, as chief nursing officer before also taking on oversight of ancillary and service areas. Schuler holds both a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.
With more than 25 years of health care experience, Dendy began her leadership journey in 2003 as radiology director at Kings Daughters Hospital, now Baptist Yazoo. In 2016, she was promoted to clinical operations director, expanding her clinical and operational oversight. She served as interim CEO in 2018, and in 2023, she assumed the role of associate administrator, supporting both Baptist Yazoo and Baptist Attala. Dendy holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Advanced Sciences and is pursuing a Master of Healthcare Administration from the Louisiana State University Shreveport.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo are 25-bed community hospitals serving Attala and Yazoo counties. Both are Baptist Memorial Health Care affiliate hospitals.
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated health care networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 6,000 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,500 providers in 50 specialties; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine. Baptist employs more than 23,000 people, and in fiscal year 2024 contributed more than $388 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.
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