Amanda Emery Stevens
2024 Women with Heart Honoree
Amanda Emery Stevens
Amanda Emery Stevens has served the healthcare community for more than 25 years with experience spanning operations, business development, marketing, physician recruitment, IT, service line leadership, and biotechnology. Ms. Emery Stevens has led mission-critical strategies for Baptist Health, Northeast Florida’s largest health system, for more than 15 years. Now Vice President of Operations for Baptist Medical Center South, she has oversight of the full scale of operations for Baptist Health’s second largest facility, a 357-bed acute care hospital and medical campus. While serving as the Executive Director of Physician and Provider Recruitment, Emery Stevens led the recruitment of more than 400 physicians and providers to serve the community across 27 different medical specialties and sub-specialties. As Executive Director of Business Development, she engineered the medical community launch of several hallmark programs and key services including the formation of Baptist Heart Specialists, Baptist Clay Medical Campus in 2013, the Baptist Health Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, Baptist MD Anderson, and the Baptist Health Structural Heart Program. In 2022, Ms. Emery Stevens successfully led the ambulatory and ancillary component of the largest transformational initiative in Baptist Health history: the full cycle implementation and go-live of Epic, unifying the electronic health record system across all acute care, ambulatory, and ancillary services. Her dynamic leadership has produced exceptional outcomes and contributions to the community, and to the mission and growth of Baptist Health.
A native of St. Johns County, she earned a Master of Health Administration from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical and Biological Sciences from Georgia Southern University. Ms. Emery Stevens is most proud of her three daughters, Emmy, Isabelle, and Zoe, who were all raised in the Northeast Florida community.
