Senior Consultant – Epic Patient Flow and Capacity Management

Quoris, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Job summary

Quoris, LLC in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Consultant—Epic Patient Flow and Capacity Management to support hospitals through hands-on Epic Grand Central implementations and optimization.

You will analyze workflows, configure Epic Grand Central, lead workstreams, and partner with hospital operations, nursing, transfer centers, and clinical informatics. Travel up to 50% is required; strong client-facing skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in Epic implementation, patient flow operations, healthcare technology, or a related field.
• Epic Grand Central certification, prior certification with ability to renew, or substantial Grand Central experience with ability to obtain certification within an agreed period.

Responsibilities

• Support and deliver Epic Grand Central implementation, optimization, upgrade, assessment, and stabilization engagements.
• Independently lead defined application, workflow, testing, reporting, data, training, or readiness workstreams.
• Analyze current patient flow operations, system configuration, workflows, performance data, governance, and organizational constraints.
• Design and document future-state workflows for bed requests, bed assignment, patient placement, transfers, level-of-care changes, environmental services, transport, discharge progression, and capacity escalation.
• Configure and optimize Epic Grand Central functionality including patient movement, bed planning, bed boards, unit and room configuration, transfer workflows, environmental services, transport, and discharge-related tools.
• Analyze dependencies across Grand Central, Prelude, Cadence, ASAP, EpicCare Inpatient, Orders, OpTime, Rover, Cogito, interfaces, and third-party capacity management technologies.
• Support the design of capacity command center workflows, role definitions, escalation pathways, decision thresholds, communication processes, and performance reporting.
• Develop and execute unit, application, integrated, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Support data validation and reconciliation related to beds, rooms, units, departments, patient classes, and patient movement.
• Facilitate client working sessions and present findings, recommendations, design decisions, risks, and project status to operational, clinical, and technology stakeholders.
• Track workstream scope, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.

Skills

Epic Grand Central

Healthcare consulting

Project management

Data analysis

Clinical informatics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Epic Systems

Job description

Senior Consultant – Epic Patient Flow and Capacity Management

Chicago, United States | Posted on 07/29/2026

Senior Consultant – Epic Patient Flow and Capacity Management (Epic Grand Central)

• Start Date: ASAP
  
• Duration: Contract (Multi-Year)
  
• Daily Working Hours: Full-Time
  
• Travel: Hybrid – Up to 50% travel required
  
• Work authorization: Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship
  
• No Third Parties Please
  

Project Scope

We are seeking a Senior Consultant – Epic Patient Flow and Capacity Management to support hospitals and health systems in improving clinical operations through better use of Epic Grand Central. This role will deliver hands‑on implementation, optimization, and stabilization work across patient flow, bed management, capacity management, and discharge progression engagements.

Position Summary

The Senior Consultant will independently support and deliver Epic patient flow and capacity management engagements for healthcare organizations. This individual will analyze workflows, configure and optimize Epic Grand Central functionality, lead assigned project workstreams, and work closely with hospital operations, nursing, transfer center, emergency department, environmental services, transport, clinical informatics, and Epic application teams. The ideal candidate brings hands‑on Epic Grand Central experience, strong analytical skills, and a client‑facing consulting background.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and deliver Epic Grand Central implementation, optimization, upgrade, assessment, and stabilization engagements.
  
• Independently lead defined application, workflow, testing, reporting, data, training, or readiness workstreams.
  
• Analyze current patient flow operations, system configuration, workflows, performance data, governance, and organizational constraints.
  
• Design and document future-state workflows for bed requests, bed assignment, patient placement, transfers, level‑of‑care changes, environmental services, transport, discharge progression, and capacity escalation.
  
• Configure and optimize Epic Grand Central functionality including patient movement, bed planning, bed boards, unit and room configuration, transfer workflows, environmental services, transport, and discharge‑related tools.
  
• Analyze dependencies across Grand Central, Prelude, Cadence, ASAP, EpicCare Inpatient, Orders, OpTime, Rover, Cogito, interfaces, and third‑party capacity management technologies.
  
• Support the design of capacity command center workflows, role definitions, escalation pathways, decision thresholds, communication processes, and performance reporting.
  
• Develop and execute unit, application, integrated, regression, and user acceptance testing.
  
• Support data validation and reconciliation related to beds, rooms, units, departments, patient classes, and patient movement.
  
• Facilitate client working sessions and present findings, recommendations, design decisions, risks, and project status to operational, clinical, and technology stakeholders.
  
• Track workstream scope, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
  
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in Epic implementation, patient flow operations, healthcare technology, clinical informatics, or a related field.
  
• Epic Grand Central certification, prior certification with ability to renew, or substantial Grand Central experience with ability to obtain certification within an agreed period.
  
• Hands‑on experience configuring, implementing, optimizing, or supporting Epic Grand Central.
  
• Experience supporting at least one Epic implementation, major upgrade, optimization initiative, or comparable patient flow technology project.
  
• Working knowledge of hospital patient movement, bed management, patient placement, transfers, environmental services, transport, and discharge processes.
  
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and client‑facing communication skills.
  
• Consulting experience or comparable client‑facing delivery experience.
  
• Ability to travel up to 50% based on client and project requirements.
  
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant Epic, patient flow, hospital operations, or healthcare technology experience.
  
• Additional Epic certification or experience in Prelude, Cadence, ASAP, EpicCare Inpatient, Orders, OpTime, Rover, or Cogito.
  
• Experience with centralized patient placement, transfer center operations, enterprise bed management, or multi-hospital capacity coordination.
  
• Experience supporting the design, implementation, or optimization of a capacity command center.
  
• Experience with discharge progression, interdisciplinary rounds, barriers to discharge, or length‑of‑stay improvement initiatives.
  
• Project management, clinical informatics, nursing informatics, Lean, or Six Sigma credentials.
  

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Hands‑on Epic Grand Central expert who can independently lead workstreams and deliver results in a consulting environment.
  
• Strong analytical thinker who can connect operational workflows to Epic configuration decisions.
  
• Client‑facing professional comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to operational, clinical, and executive stakeholders.
  
• Detail‑oriented and organized with a track record of delivering in complex, fast‑paced healthcare implementations.
  
• Brings technical depth, professionalism, and accountability to every engagement.
  

When working with Quoris as a consultant, you are eligible for competitive benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, 401k, and a great culture/working environment.