News and briefs: Kansas health center offering eight weeks off for mission work

Ashland (KS) Health Center developed a unique recruiting tool: is offering eight paid weeks off for mission work.

According to the Associated Press, health center officials employed the idea to recruit and maintain practitioners in a remote portion of the state. All employees can use the time for mission work or volunteer opportunities. According to the story, the benefit was created to attract people willing to care for those in impoverished nations who might heed a similar call to help those in rural Kansas with difficult access to medical care and housing problems.

Today, Ashland Health Center employs several practitioners-- up from the one physician’s assistant prior to the mission work benefit-- and is no longer on the verge of closing.

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