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 Pulmonology Intensivist Physician provides high-quality, coordinated, comprehensive, and patient-centered care within a collaborative, team-based practice environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering specialty care as applicable, in the areas of Pulmonology and/or Sleep Medicine across The Queen’s Health System hospitals, clinics, and affiliated facilities.
- Practicing collaboratively within established interdisciplinary care models.
- Supporting The Queen’s Medical Center’s vision, mission, and values to enhance quality of care and improve the health and well-being of patients throughout Hawaiʻi.
- Advancing Queen’s mission to fulfill the legacy of Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV by providing quality healthcare services in perpetuity to Native Hawaiians and all people of Hawaiʻi.
- Supporting the Queen’s University Medical Group (QUMG) mission to be the preeminent academic medical group of the Pacific.
- Participating in academic medicine, including 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.
IV. Minimum Qualifications
A. Education, Certification, and Licensure
- Graduate of an accredited School of Medicine or possession of ECFMG certification.
- Completion of an ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) - or AOA American Osteopathic Association-accredited fellowship training program.
- Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Hawaiʻi.
- Current board certification in both Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases. If not board certified, board certifications must be obtained within two (2) years of entrance into the position.
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: $408,156.00
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
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