Lynn Hamilton

Lynn Hamilton, who has spent four decades in the healthcare industry, has built the majority of her career around leading hospital risk management programs. Currently Lynn is the regional Risk Management director for Piedmont Healthcare’s Southeast Region, which includes six hospitals: Piedmont Macon Medical Center, Piedmont Macon North Hospital, Piedmont Henry Hospital, Piedmont Augusta Hospital, Piedmont McDuffie Hospital and Piedmont Augusta Summerville Campus.

Lynn got her start in risk management as director of Risk Management at Coliseum Medical Centers (now Piedmont Macon Medical), a job she held from 2003 to 2021. Her role expanded in August 2021 when the scope of her job expanded to include both of Macon’s Piedmont hospitals.

In 1984, Lynn joined what was then Coliseum Behavioral Health and worked for 13 years in Case Management, Referral Development and in the LifeLine Psychiatric Assessment and Referral Program, which she launched in the late 1980s. Additionally, she served as a consultant with Hospital Corp. of America (HCA) to get the LifeLine program in every HCA hospital with psychiatric facilities.

Lynn’s experience also extends to special projects and quality management at what is now Piedmont Macon North Hospital, where her role included serving as a crisis team leader, and as a coordinator for hospital-wide preparation for quality and safety surveys by regulatory agencies.

Lynn is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management and has memberships in various risk management associations. Lynn, who lives in Gray, has two adult children, including a daughter who will be a senior at Mercer University in the fall, and a son who is married and lives in Monticello.