Managing Consultant – Clinical Quality Improvement (Maryland Programs) - Healthcare

Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States; in-office 2–3 days per week depending on project and client requirements; travel within Maryland 25–50% required.

Salary: $120,000–$165,000 annually. Job title and compensation depend on qualifications and experience.

Company

hirify.global provides consulting and advisory services addressing strategic, operational, financial, and clinical challenges across healthcare and other complex industries.

What you will do

• Serve as a subject-matter expert on Maryland hospital quality programs, including QBR, MHAC, and RRIP, and their interaction with CMS programs.
• Analyze measure specifications, risk adjustment, benchmarking, scoring methodologies, and quality analytics to identify performance trends and improvement opportunities.
• Educate hospital executives, physicians, clinicians, and operational teams on policy changes, measure updates, and HSCRC and CMS requirements.
• Advise clients on the financial effects of quality performance, including revenue at risk, rewards, and penalties.
• Design and facilitate improvement strategies for mortality, complications, readmissions, sepsis, and patient experience.
• Lead quality improvement workgroups, rapid improvement events, adverse event reviews, improvement workplans, and evidence-based practice adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in acute care hospital settings focused on clinical quality, performance improvement, and quality program management.
• Direct experience with Maryland’s hospital quality and payment environment, including the HSCRC TCOC Model, hospital global budget framework, QBR, MHAC, and RRIP.
• Ability to explain differences and overlaps between Maryland and CMS methodologies to hospital leadership, clinicians, and quality teams.
• Experience educating and presenting to frontline staff, clinical and operational leaders, and executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Health Information Management, or a related field.
• Must be able to verify legal authorization to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

Nice to have

• CPHQ, CIC, Lean/Six Sigma, or an equivalent professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Interdisciplinary consulting environment combining healthcare executives, clinicians, academics, industry experts, and data scientists.
• Work across clinical quality transformation, business transformation, operational improvement, and AI and digital solutions.
• Agile and collaborative culture focused on connectivity and practical client results.
• Hybrid office and client-facing work with required travel within Maryland.