Sam Lynd was named Administrator and CEO of NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital April 2020. Most recently, Sam has served as Chief Operating Officer for Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis since January 2019 and Administrator of Baptist’s emergency services system wide since 2014. He joined Baptist Memorial Health Care as a Frank S. Groner Administrative Fellow in 2011 and was an assistant administrator at two Baptist Memorial hospitals, including NEA Baptist, before becoming the Administrator and CEO of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in 2014. Lynd holds a Master of Science in health administration and an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Bachelor of Science in health care management from the University of Alabama. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves as President Elect of the Tennessee Center for Health Workforce Development as well as a member of the Tennessee Hospital Association’s Small or Rural Hospital Executive Committee. Sam was recently named as an honoree of the Memphis Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40, and is a member of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute.”
