A short YouTube interview/transcript excerpt (Will Humphreys and a speaker) describing how a physical therapy (PT) clinic incorporates community service hours into clinicians' compensated workweek. The clinic counts time spent serving local schools or colleges as part of the built-in 40-hour salary, reducing billed clinical hours while emphasizing PT as a relational profession.
Did you say your company offers additional, you know, was it financial opportunities outside of working hours? Was it more service based?
We actually use those hours as part of our salary. And so you actually reduce the number of overall.
Clinic hours, clinical patient hours, and then part of your salary is that you get to spend the several hours, whether it be working at the local high school, serving them, or with the local college. Sometimes it's additional hours, depending on what kind of the setup is with whatever opportunity it might look like. But oftentimes it's part of our built in 40 hour week is us being involved in our community. And one thing kind of adding onto what Heidi said that I hope and I pray that I see more of in like the PT profession moving forward is especially for a lot of these outpatient clinics, we have such an opportunity to be such a relational based profession.