Mr. Baxley serves as president and CEO of Beaufort Memorial, where he directs strategic expansion across the South Carolina Lowcountry, oversees systemwide operations, and leads physician and provider recruitment efforts, having recruited more than 150 providers to make the community hospital the region’s largest primary care provider. Under his leadership, Beaufort Memorial expanded service lines including urology, psychiatry and plastic surgery, partnered with Yuma, Ariz.-based Amedisys Home Health, and introduced robot-assisted surgery and the “BMH Care Anywhere” telehealth platform, while surgical volumes more than doubled from 5,000 procedures to more than 12,000 in 2025. Mr. Baxley has led major capital projects, including the development of Bluffton (S.C.) Community Hospital and an emergency department/urgent care on Hilton Head Island, a $25 million surgical pavilion renovation supported by $18 million in federal funding, and roughly $5 million in upgrades to the angiography suite, interventional radiology, MRI and cardiac cath labs. To address workforce needs, he created the “People Achieving Their Highest” program and the PATH Career Development Center, and he led the development of an employer-subsidized childcare center and workforce housing initiatives. In 2025 alone, Beaufort Memorial provided $35.6 million in uncompensated charity care and Mr. Baxley guided more than $100,000 annually in support to local nonprofits. He has also led the hospital through a crisis, directing an evacuation during Hurricane Matthew in just his second week on the job and later steering the organization through the Covid-19 pandemic. He serves as president of nonprofit South of Broad Healthcare and Broad River Healthcare, as well as on the boards of the South Carolina Hospital Association and the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce.
