Baptist Medical Center - Yazoo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640844470
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Yazoo City, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6627462261
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,486,920
- Expenses
- $20,234,023
- Assets
- $9,003,608
- Liabilities
- $19,810,222
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON M LITTLE (PRESIDENT)
- MCCAFFERTY W FLYNT (CEO BMC-ATTALA & YAZOO (THRU 09/25))
- STEFANIE DENDY (CEO BMC YAZOO (AS OF 09/25))
- ROBERT COLEMAN (FORMER CEO BMC-ATTALA AND YAZOO)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON M LITTLE (PRESIDENT): $3,913,950 total reported compensation
- GREGORY M DUCKETT (SECRETARY): $1,760,131 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM F THOMPSON (FORMER CFO): $475,728 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Is to provide comfortable and convenient health care to the residents of yazoo county, Mississippi, and the surrounding areas through a more community-focused, personal touch approach.
What it reported doing in 2024
Baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of baptist medical center - yazoo, inc., it is recognized that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services, and further, that our mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and health care education. Therefore, in keeping with its commitment to serve all members of its community, baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Provides the following:- free care and/or subsidized care where the need and/or an individual's inability to pay coexist,- care provided to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost, and- health activities and programs to support the community.these activities include wellness programs, community education programs, and special programs for the elderly, handicapped, medically underserved, and a variety of broad community support activities.baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Offers 25 beds which can be utilized (swing) between acute care and rehabilitative care and a 24/7 emergency room. Within the facility, the hospital offers specialty clinics in the areas of: cardiology, general surgery, cataract and eye surgery, gi/endoscopy services, orthopedic, pain management, ob-gyn and wound care, as well as a primary care clinic and a geriatric day program. During its 2025 fiscal year, baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Recorded 444 inpatient discharges with 3,217 days of care provided, 29,351 outpatient occasions of service, 13,053 emergency room visits, 12,321 patient encounters in its primary care clinic and 304 surgical cases.baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Provides care to persons covered by governmental programs from which the hospital receives payment at less than market value reimbursement. Recognizing its mission to the community, services are provided to medicare, medicaid and uninsured patients. To the extent reimbursement is below cost, baptist medical center - yazoo, inc. Recognizes these amounts as charity care in meeting its mission to the entire community. During the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025, the unreimbursed value of providing care to these patients was $23,436,377.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.2; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.9M · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 69 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.