Primary Care Physician (West Oahu)
Description
Company Description
The Queen’s Health System is a non-profit healthcare organization with four hospitals, over 70 specialty health care locations, and labs throughout the Pacific region, including Hawai'i. With a rich history of serving the people of Hawai'i, Queen's is the state's largest employer, with over 10,000 caregivers, medical staff and leadership. Queen's is accredited by The Joint Commission and is the only hospital in Hawai'i to achieve Magnet status 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, behavioral health medicine, and is a major teaching hospital.
We’re all about prevention and are focused on keeping our patients healthy. We’ll give our patients the tools and resources they need to help improve thier overall mental and physical health and wellness.
Our Primary Care Providers treat the whole person, not just the symptoms. Enhancing the quality of thier life is our end goal. So, whether they want to eat better, quit smoking or exercise more, we can help.
We have seven convenient primary care center locations for you to choose from on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i Island and Kauai. From family medicine to women’s health, we bring a comprehensive approach to health care as your lifetime partner in health.
JOB SUMMARY/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides the basics of health care, focusing on wellness and prevention.
- Focuses on the patient’s overall health. Ensures the patient receives recommended screenings and risk assessments.
- Demonstrates a broad clinical knowledge and attention to detail necessary to cover all possible diagnoses in a limited time.
- Demonstrates excellent communications skills, listening skills, and the ability to extract the pertinent information from patients who are sick or injured and not at their best.
- Demonstrates compassion, patience, and engagement in shared decision-making with patients regarding treatment choices and goals of care.
- Makes appropriate referrals to specialists, while continuing to manage the overall care of patients and communicating with specialists as needed.
- Demonstrates the ability to transform practice from individual patient management to population health management by embracing team-based management and alternative visits through telehealth, telephone, email, etc.
Assignment to Primary Care Physician Enterprise:
- Provides care in a team-based model with a focus on preventive medicine, complex care management, transitional care management, chronic disease management, and acute illness visits.
- Demonstrates philosophical alignment with patient-centered, team-based care. They should have a commitment to patient-centered approaches to healthcare delivery, along with strong relationship building, communication, and active listening skills.
- Actively seeks and appropriately responds to patients’ preferences and values, and works with the entire multidisciplinary care team to support patients in achieving their goals. Understands, values, and optimizes the roles of each member of the health care team, and works collaboratively with team members, patients, and their caregivers to achieve coordinated, high-quality care.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- During the period of employment, shall be and remain a member of the QMC medical staff in good standing with appropriate privileges without restriction.
Base salary begins at $250,781/year with opportunity for productivity and quality incentives.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet