The Big Island Multi-Specialty Practice is seeking Infectious Disease Physician Assistant

There is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Infectious Disease Physician Assistant to join Multi-specialty physician practice in Kailua Kona, Big Island Hawaii.  The group is looking for a physician assistant  with previous Infectious Disease experience. This is Monday-Friday, no weekends, no call position.

PA will spend

• 2.5  days/week in clinic evaluating and treating patients with infectious issues including, but not limited to, hospital follow ups, new outpatient referrals and established outpatient follow ups.  Clinic schedule is Monday 8 am – 4 pm, Thursday 8 am – 4 pm and Friday 8 am to noon.

• 2 days/week rounding on existing ID consult patients and completing new requests for ID consultation at Kona Community Hospital. This process would involve completing initial consult notes and/or progress notes, communicating with other members of each patient’s treatment team, ordering medications and diagnostic testing, and coordinating care (primarily ensuring appropriate ID clinic follow up and assisting with arrangement of outpatient IV antibiotic therapy.

• 0.5 days/week on monitoring of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT – patients on IV therapy in the outpatient setting under supervision of the ID clinic). This would entail maintaining and updating a database of all current patients on OPAT, ensuring that appropriate weekly bloodwork is completed, ensuring that patients have appropriate clinic follow up scheduled, communicating with patients regarding new symptoms or results of concern, and ordering mediation changes and new diagnostic testing, as appropriate.

The ideal candidate will provide health care to individuals and families, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention, and caring for patients ranging in age. This position requires a high level of customer service skills to establish and enhance positive relationships with patients and co-workers. 

The group offers competitive salary depending on experience, relocation assistance.  Their benefits include a robust health and dental plan; vision and life insurance; defined contribution pension plan; generous accrual of vacation/sick days, along with many more employee perks! 

This semi-independent multispecialty practice affiliated with Hawaii Health System Corporation employs physicians and nurse practitioners in their clinics, all of whom are also on the medical staff of Kona Community Hospital. The practice provides high quality medical care to the West Hawaii community.  

Kailua Kona, often referred to as "Kona" by the locals, is the main western city of the Big Island of Hawaii. It is nestled on the western coast of the Hualalai Volcano. In ancient times, this area was considered the premier place to live due to the excellent weather and good water. Many kings made their homes here.  Later, missionaries built churches and residences and planted coffee, turning the tiny fishing village into a small seaport. Now Kona has become known for sport fishing, snorkeling, sunsets and coffee, which is cultivated on the slopes of Mount Hualalai. Because the mountains block the northeasterly trade winds, Kona gets very little rain and enjoys more than 300 days of sunshine a year.

If interested in this position, please email your CV with contact information to: mrazi@medstaffer.com