Amanda Hiers
Amanda Hiers joined the South Carolina Hospital Association in 2025 and currently serves as the Director of Community Health and Innovation. In this role, through the lens of sustainability and continuous quality improvement, she leads the design and implementation of AccessHealth and Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas programming across South Carolina and supports key grant initiatives including the SC Roadmap to address nonmedical factors impacting health.
Prior to joining SCHA, Amanda served as the senior program manager for the Community Health Transformation team at the SC Office of Rural Health, leading network development and technical assistance resources for community leaders and healthcare providers related to community-based population health programs.
Through her diverse state and community level partnerships, she also offers experience in high reliability, community health, access to care, transitions of care, and behavioral health.
She also has more than 12 years of experience from the clinical setting in process improvement, hospital safety and quality, health system navigation, and patient education and engagement. A native of Barnwell County, Amanda is an advocate for improving health equity and reducing health disparities by addressing social determinants of health in South Carolina. She earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in human resource management from Southern Wesleyan University.
In addition to her professional and academic experience, Amanda also holds two professional certifications specializing in clinical and programmatic outcomes including the Just Culture Algorithm from Outcome Engenuity, an accountability model designed to help organizations achieve better outcomes and pursue sustainable and positive culture change through systems design and performance management, and Results-Based Accountability from Clear Impact Academy, a framework that incorporates population and performance accountability to improve the effectiveness of programs and create measurable change.
Dedicated to serving and building the capacity of communities, she completed the Rural Health Grant Writing Institute in 2023 and Purpose-Driven Leadership Institute in 2024 from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health.
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