Ms. Gentry serves as CEO of Atrium Health Navicent Peach, a critical access hospital where she oversees daily operations, financial stewardship, quality and safety outcomes and employee engagement. She also serves as Atrium Health’s Georgia vice president for primary care and played a key role in relocating the Atrium Health Navicent Primary Care Fort Valley Rural Health Clinic to expand services. As a champion for the Georgia HEART hospital program, Ms. Gentry helped the hospital raise nearly $1 million in 2025, the highest total in its history, to sustain essential rural services. Under her leadership, the hospital’s likelihood-to-recommend score exceeds state and national averages and it has reported zero hospital-acquired infections for more than a year, an achievement recognized with second place in the Georgia Hospital Association’s 2026 “Patient Safety and Quality Award” for critical access hospitals. Ms. Gentry has also expanded school-based virtual care partnerships with Peach County Schools since 2022 and established the hospital as a clinical training site for Middle Georgia State University, Fort Valley State University and Central Georgia Technical College. The hospital earned the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s “Pathway to Excellence” designation in 2024 and an Emergency Nurses Association “Lantern Award” in 2025 under her leadership. She previously served as hospital administrator and CNO at the Medical Center of Peach County in Byron and as director of nursing at Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins, Ga.
