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CHI St Joseph's Health
Park Rapids, Minnesota

Physical Therapist

Physical TherapistFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

Where You’ll Work

CHI St. Joseph’s Health of Park Rapids, part of CommonSpirit Health, is an award-winning, 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center, hospitalist program, testing, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and more so that you can experience better health.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Physical Therapist, you will help patients rebuild or maintain their physical wellbeing so they can function at their best level, reduce pain, and improve their quality of life.

Every day you will perform initial evaluations, develop and update individualized plans of care, and provide a variety of direct treatments.

You will be expected to consistently meet patient care productivity standards, collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and families, and promote a positive customer service environment.

To be successful in this role, you must possess strong age-appropriate competency skills, excellent communication abilities, and a collaborative, patient-centered approach to care.

Key Responsibilities

Demonstrates competence with clinical skills necessary to provide care appropriately to all the patient groups served by the physical therapy service

Performs evaluations/assessments, develops, re-evaluates and adjusts the Plan of Care for each individual

Provides Treatments as Included in POC

  • Provides instruction in/demonstration of equipment, treatments, disease process, self-care and exercises to patients, family, and staff.
  • Provides timely and accurate documentation of services provided in the medical record, per policy.
  • Communicates with medical, nursing and other Rehab staff
  • Job Requirements
  • Graduate of a Physical Therapy program from an accredited institution
  • Physical Therapist Licensed by the State of Minnesota.

Requirements

Candidates must be graduates of an accredited Physical Therapy program and hold a current Physical Therapist License from the State of Minnesota. Success in the role requires strong age-appropriate competency skills, excellent communication, and a collaborative, patient-centered approach to care.

Key Skills

Plan Of Care DevelopmentTreatment ProvisionPatient InstructionCollaboration

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 46% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

In Minnesota, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (207 salary observations; 655 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (10,428 salary observations; 56,804 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Physical Therapist Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution50 jobs · 37 employers

17
<$110k
12
$110k-125k
10
$125k-140k
5
$140k-155k
6
$155k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks43 jobs · 37 employers

401k / retirement match
81%
CME allowance
65%
Sign-on bonus
42%
Loan repayment
33%
PSLF eligible
12%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Physical Therapist

Providence · Tigard, Oregon

$49.65-$77.08/hr
#2

Physical Therapist (PT) Home Health | $150,000 Annual Salary (Redding)

Home Care Providers Group · Yuba City, California

$150k-$160k
#3

Home Health Physical Therapist

$70-$75/hr
#4

Physical Therapist (PT) Acute Care TempForce

$75/hr
+ 48 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 30% of Physical Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 22,541 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Park Rapids

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$356k
Median resident rent
$825/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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