About Amanda Hopkins Tirrell, MBA, FACHE

President and Founder

In 2017, Ms. Hopkins Tirrell founded Hopkins Tirrell & Associates, LLC, a health care management consulting practice offering strategic and operational management solutions to hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and physician group practices. Advisory services include clinical strategic planning, master facilities planning, patient access services enhancement and redesign, behavioral health solutions, revenue cycle management, value-based care strategies, physician engagement, clinical integration, and network development. Operations management solutions include interim executive leadership and management services for ambulatory care programs and medical group practices.

30 years of health care management

Ms. Hopkins Tirrell has served most recently as Chief Operating Officer for Augusta University Medical Associates where she led business and clinical operations for the Medical College of Georgia’s faculty practice and AU Medical Center’s ambulatory care services operations with over 500 providers in 80 specialties, 520,000 annual patient encounters and $700M in annual practice and hospital gross charges. As AUMA COO, Ms. Hopkins Tirrell rebuilt revenue cycle management operations, prioritized patient access services improvements, and spearheaded value-based care transformation strategy to include PCMH expansion and advanced practice provider integration.

Prior to joining AU Medical Associates, she led UConn Medical Group as its Chief Operating Officer where she provided operational and strategic leadership to the region’s largest multi-specialty faculty group practice and guided numerous clinical, operational and service excellence turnaround initiatives. As chair of UConn Health’s ambulatory care center building committee, Ms. Hopkins Tirrell engaged physicians and clinical team members and successfully steered the clinical design development of the Health Center’s 300,000 square foot $200M building project.

Ms. Hopkins Tirrell has served as Vice President for Baystate Health, the leading regional health system and academic medical center in Springfield, Massachusetts where she provided strategic and operational oversight to the health system’s neurosciences, behavioral health, rehabilitation and cancer care service lines, programs and medical practice operations. She has also served as CEO of several specialty hospitals across the country and led turnarounds focusing on clinical quality, patient safety and service, as well as financial and operational performance improvement.

Education

Ms. Hopkins Tirrell holds an MBA in health care management from the Wharton School and is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives.