Hospitalist Physician Nocturnist (153616)

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. Queen's is the state's largest employer, with over 9,000 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 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.

Hospitalist Role

A Hospitalist is a physician who specializes in caring for patients during their stay in the hospital. The hospitalist’s primary focus is providing medical care to a patient from admission until discharge. The hospitalist reviews a patient’s past medical records, notifies the primary care physician, and performs a comprehensive history and physical examination at admission. The hospitalist coordinates medical care while patients are admitted and spends time with the patient and family to discuss care. The hospitalist also works with nurses, case managers, and other physicians to design and coordinate an individual treatment plan for each patient.

Job Summary / Responsibilities

• Provides in-patient medicine services to Queen’s Medical Center patients through direct patient care, and teaching and supervision of students and residents from the John A. Burns School of Medicine and assigned residents from other programs.
• Rotates through all Hospitalist services, including but not limited to : the General University, Swing, Night and Specialty services.

Clinical Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

Clinical base annual salary : $295,451.00

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet

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