Senior Consultant – Epic Patient Flow, Capacity Management

🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $113k - $188k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Support and independently deliver Epic patient flow and capacity management engagements for hospitals and health systems • Support Epic Grand Central implementation, optimization, upgrade, assessment, and stabilization engagements • Lead defined application, workflow, testing, reporting, data, training, or readiness workstreams • Analyze 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, patient 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 • Support centralized patient placement, transfer center, bed management, and capacity command center initiatives • Document requirements, Epic configuration decisions, technical specifications, dependencies, risks, and outstanding decisions • Analyze dependencies across Epic applications, interfaces, and third-party capacity management technologies • Support capacity command center workflow, role, escalation, communication, and reporting design • Develop and execute unit, application, integrated, regression, and user acceptance testing • Create patient movement and capacity testing scenarios reflecting routine operations and operational exceptions • Support data validation and reconciliation for beds, rooms, units, departments, patient movement, environmental services, and transport • Participate in workflow validation, operational simulations, training development, cutover planning, go-live support, and post-live stabilization • Develop or refine reports, dashboards, workqueues, patient lists, and operational measures • Identify opportunities to reduce emergency department boarding, transfer delays, bed turnaround time, patient placement friction, and unnecessary variation • Facilitate client working sessions and present findings, recommendations, design decisions, risks, and project status • Coordinate activities across Epic analysts, operational leaders, client subject matter experts, reporting teams, and technical teams • Track scope, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions • Provide day-to-day direction and review for consultants or client analysts when assigned • Support proposal development, scope definition, level-of-effort estimates, demonstrations, and presentations • Contribute to reusable assessments, workflow libraries, testing scripts, configuration tools, and points of view for the Guidehouse EHR practice

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree obtained from an accredited college or university • Minimum of three years of relevant experience in Epic implementation, patient flow operations, healthcare technology, clinical informatics, or a related field • Epic Grand Central certification, prior Grand Central certification with the ability to renew, or substantial Grand Central experience with the 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 • Experience analyzing workflows and translating requirements into Epic configuration, documentation, testing, reporting, or implementation activities • Experience developing and executing application and integrated testing • Ability to independently manage assigned work, meet deadlines, identify risks, and escalate issues appropriately • Experience leading meetings, design sessions, testing activities, or defined project workstreams • Strong analytical, written, verbal, and client-facing communication skills • Consulting experience or comparable client-facing delivery experience within a health system, EHR vendor, or healthcare technology company • Ability to work effectively with operational, clinical, technical, and executive stakeholders • Ability to travel up to 50% based on client and project requirements • Ability to support implementation and go-live activities that may occasionally occur outside standard business hours

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Basic Life & Supplemental Life • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Student Loan PayDown • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities • Skills Development & Certifications • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program • Mobility Stipend • Flexible benefits package