NP and PA Needed on the Big Island of Hawaii

Our East Hawaii Medical Group is happy to announce a new position to join our growing team. Offering a great benefits package including medical, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents, 20 days PTO, 5 days CME.

This position is for a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician’s Assistant (PA) at the East Hawaii Health Clinics, a department of Ka’u Hospital of the East Hawaii Region on the island of Hawaii. The function of the East Hawaii Health Clinics is to provide outpatient primary, specialty, and urgent care services. This provider will function independently, performing primary care and urgent care services to all patients of the East Hawaii Health Clinics within their scope of practice.

Most importantly, this provider will help develop and implement a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, working with chronically ill or “high-risk” patients with the goal of enhancing patient health and the ability for self-management and shared decision-making. Other program goals will include reduction in emergency room utilization and hospital readmissions. This provider will be part of a CCM team that will assess and address patient’s unmet health and social needs, assist patient with development of treatment goals, and help patient negotiate cognitive, physical, social, and economic barriers to care.

The position requires experience in:

• Community/outpatient setting
• Delivery of culturally-appropriate preventive services
• Patient education
• Outreach
• Referral across a network of services.

Care will be delivered in a variety of settings, including home visits, and there may be evening and weekend hours

As the Big Island’s leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care, Hilo Medical Center delivers a full range of services and programs on our 20-acre campus. Hilo Medical Center is licensed for 157 beds for acute care and 35 beds for long-term care.

We have 1,200 employees and a medical staff comprised 250 community physicians, physician assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, representing 33 specialties. As a medical center, we have a network of 9 outpatient clinics offering primary and specialty care. The hospital is a Level III Trauma Center which  includes the second busiest emergency room in the state that provides 24-hour care to more than 46,000 patients annually.

Hilo Medical Center has been nationally recognized for exceptional care as a “Top Performing” hospital. CMS ranked HMC 5 stars for Overall Quality, putting HMC among the top 20% of hospitals in the nation. Our hospital is designated as a Level III Trauma Center and a Primary Stroke Center. We are also the only hospital in the state to have earned two Beacon designations in our Intensive Care Unit and Progressive Care Unit.

HMC’s HealthConnect attained the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2014. In addition, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recognized HMC for achieving Stage 7 on the EMR Adoption ModelSM.  Hilo Medical Center also earned the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davis Award for the utilization and demonstration of its electronic medical records system.

We are part of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, a public entity established in 1996 by the State of Hawaii to fulfill the promise to provide quality, hometown healthcare.