Critical Care Intensivist

Critical Care Intensivist

Company Description

The Queen’s Health System is a nonprofit healthcare organization serving Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region. With four hospitals, more than 70 specialty healthcare locations, and statewide laboratory services, Queen’s is Hawaiʻi’s largest private employer, with over 9,000 caregivers, medical staff, and leaders.

Queen’s is accredited by The Joint Commission and is the only hospital in Hawaiʻi to achieve Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Our state-of-the-art facilities serve as the major referral center for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, and behavioral health. Queen’s is also a major teaching hospital, committed to advancing education, research, and high-quality patient care.

The Queen’s Pulmonary and Critical Care is a team of experts who evaluates and treats patients with lung diseases in our pulmonary clinics and cares for critically ill patients in our Medical Intensive Care Unit at The Queen’s Medical Center Punchbowl campus and Intensive Care Unit at The Queen’s Medical Center West Oahu campus.

Our team is composed of 5 outpatient pulmonologists, 11 pulmonary/critical care physicians, 3 sleep trained physicians, 3 critical care doctors, and 1 acute care nurse practitioner. Our team offers clinical expertise and experience, specialized medical treatment and personalized care for patients with a variety of acute and chronic pulmonary conditions and critical care illnesses. In our pulmonary clinics on Oahu, Molokai and Big Island, our lung specialists treat a wide variety of conditions that can affect lungs and ability to breathe. Through our subspecialty programs, we offer timely, comprehensive consultation for patients with both common and complex lung diseases by our leading experts.

If you or a loved one is critically ill, you want the best care possible. In the Intensive Care Units at The Queen’s Medical Center, specialized teams care for patients around the clock in settings designed to provide optimal care. From expertly-trained doctors who are specialists in their field to specially trained nurses, to dieticians and respiratory therapists, you are in the best of hands day and night.

I. Job Summary / Responsibilities

The Critical Care Intensivist Physician provides high-quality, coordinated, comprehensive, and patient-centered care within a collaborative, team-based practice environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provides high-quality, coordinated, comprehensive, team-based, and patient-centered care for patients of The Queen’s Health System’s (QHS’) hospitals, clinics, and facilities, and other hospitals, clinics, and facilities, as applicable, in the area of Critical Care Medicine.
• Works cooperatively within collaborative practice models.
• Supports The Queen’s Medical Center’s (QMC’s) vision and values to enhance the provision of quality health care and optimize the health status of QHS’ patients, and supports QMC’s mission to fulfill the intent of Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV to provide in perpetuity quality health care services to improve the well-being of Native Hawaiians and all of the people of Hawai`i.
• Supports the QUMG mission to be the preeminent academic medical group of the Pacific – leading the delivery of high quality, compassionate patient care and continually advancing education and research.
• Engages in academic medical/clinical education, training, supervision, evaluation, and research as assigned.

II. Typical Physical Demands

• Essential: Finger dexterity; seeing, hearing, and speaking; reaching above, at, and below shoulder level; repetitive arm and hand motions.
• Frequent: Standing, walking, sitting; stopping and bending; prolonged static gripping and frequent gripping of objects.
• Occasional: Twisting, lifting, pushing, and pulling.
• Regular operation of medical equipment, computers, telephones, and pagers.

III. Typical Working Conditions

• Not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
• Potential exposure to hazardous chemicals and infectious agents is an occupational risk; adherence to standard safety and infection control regulations is required.
• Must be okay to commute to our West Oahu and Manamana locations as needed for coverage.

IV. Minimum Qualifications

A. Education, Certification, and Licensure

• Graduate of an accredited School of Medicine or ECFMG certification.
• Completion of a fellowship training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Hawaii.
• Current board certification in one (1) of the following by the appropriate specialty/subspecialty certification board of the American board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) or AOA. If not board certified, board certifications must be obtained within two (2) years of entrance into the position:
• • Critical Care Medicine - Cardiovascular Disease with successful completion of a Level III training in critical care cardiology as defined by the American College of Cardiology Core Cardiovascular Training Statement (COCATS 4) - Surgical Critical Care - Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine

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B. Experience

• Three (3) years of clinical experience preferred.
• During the period of employment, shall be and remain a member of the applicable QHS hospitals’ medical staffs in good standing with appropriate privileges without restriction..
• Qualified for an appointment on the faculty of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine preferred

Compensation

• Annual Salary: $418,149.00

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran