Specialized wound care treatment is now available at North Hawaii Community Hospital’s newly expanded Primary Care Clinic located next to Longs Drugs in Waimea.
The specialized, multidisciplinary team, led by board-certified physicians, treats conditions including diabetic foot ulcers, neuropathic ulcers, venous ulcers, arterial ulcers, pressure ulcers, lower extremity cellulitis and edema, non-healing surgical wounds, traumatic ulcers and other hard-to-heal wounds.
The new providers are:
Dr. Ajay Bhatt
• Bhatt graduated from Chicago Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and his medical education fellowship at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. His certifications include emergency medicine, medical education, wound care and hyperbaric medicine.
Dr. Michael Shin
• Shin received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center College of Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Queens, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. His certifications include emergency medicine, wound care and hyperbaric medicine.
Bhatt and Shin can be reached at the Primary Care Clinic at 881-4745.