DavidCWestPA

Summary

• Nationally certified and Texas licensed Physician Assistant, in practice for 12 years since graduating from Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. My practice has focused on providing family, internal and occupational medicine practice for our underserved communities. -------------------------------------------- Currently providing multi-specialty care for home-bound patients recovering from hospitalization for acute illness/accident, or from exacerbation/sequelae of chronic comorbid disease. ----------------------- -- Medical care and close monitoring of patients with severe and end-stage disease states requiring medication prescription and administration through trach, PEG, PICC and peripheral lines. ------------------ -- In-home assessment and treatment of patients with advanced chronic diseases and their sequelae, including those of CHF and MI, DM2 and ESRD, MSK debility, AIDS and metastatic disease; ----------------- -- Pulmonary conditions including COPD/ILD, pneumonias including COVID-19, and other conditions requiring trach/vent and supplemental O2; ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Local/systemic infections and s/p sepsis requiring oral and parenteral antibiotics; ------------------------ -- Severe neurological diseases/injuries including MS and s/p CVA, requiring neuro/psychiatric care; ------- -- Stage II-IV ulcer and non-healing wounds requiring debridement and advanced wound care techniques; -- -- Home/bed/wheelchair-bound impairments requiring clinician selection and direction of skilled nursing/HHC and PT/OT/ST/RT therapies.