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Adaptive Home Health
Detroit, Michigan

Physical Therapist (PT)

Physical TherapistIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$100k-$130k

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

Weekend work is also flagged as required; confirm which days and how often.

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Job Description

  • Role: Physical Therapist (PT)
  • Schedule: Full-time Monday–Friday + occasional weekends (as needed)
  • Location: Field Based
  • Compensation (Productivity Points): $75.00 / point | $100,000-$130,000/year
  • We're fixing home healthcare, and we're building our presence in Detroit

Adaptive is building an AI-native home healthcare platform that enables clinicians to focus on delivering best-in-class care for their patients by leveraging software and innovative support solutions. We’re building our team in Detroit with plans to quickly develop an exceptional reputation of delivering excellent patient care.

Spend more time caring for patients—not charting.

At Adaptive Home Health, we're excited to offer our clinicians an innovative AI-native home healthcare platform designed to simplify your day. Enjoy customized schedules, optimized routing for greater efficiency, and ambient AI scribing that automatically documents your visits while you focus on your patients.

Prefer not to record during a patient visit? No problem. Our platform also includes an after-visit voice documentation option, allowing you to capture your notes afterward and leverage AI to draft your charts.

By streamlining documentation and reducing after-hours charting, our technology helps you spend less time on paperwork and more time doing what you do best, providing exceptional patient care.

The Mission of This Role

Deliver excellent home health care to our patients in Detroit, and set the clinical bar, the documentation standard, and the referral-source trust that our market will be built on.

Objectives

Carry a full, high-quality caseload: ramp to ~28 productivity points/week at target visit quality.

Own your patients' outcomes: drive low avoidable-hospitalization rates and strong patient-experience scores; participate in case conferences/team huddles to improve our quality.

Be a referral-source ambassador: every discharge planner, ALF, and physician you touch should want to send the next patient to us because you were responsive and excellent.

Set the standard others copy: your charting, cadence, and judgment become the template we onboard the next cohort against as the pod grows.

What You'll Own

  • Own the caseload as a case manager: you’re accountable for the patient’s therapy plan, progression, and outcomes — not just individual visits.
  • Complete comprehensive in-home assessments and deliver skilled PT visits.
  • Build and execute a clear plan of care: gait/balance, transfers, strengthening, functional mobility, home safety, fall prevention.
  • Set measurable goals, track objective progress, and adjust treatment quickly when patients stall.
  • Drive multidisciplinary coordination: communicate changes in condition, align on orders, and keep the care team moving.
  • Manage treatment and outcomes directly, including PTA supervision where appropriate.
  • Coach patients and caregivers with practical home programs that actually get done.
  • Document promptly and thoroughly — defensible, efficient, and consistent.
  • Who you are / how you operate
  • Dedicated clinician: home health experience strongly preferred
  • High ownership: you treat your caseload like your own panel and your pod like your own business.
  • Open mindset: Energized by the opportunity to shape the playbook and refine SOPs
  • Tech-forward: You want to leverage software to accelerate the charting process, and you'll give us blunt feedback to make it better
  • Trust-builder: Patients, families, and referral partners believe you because you do what you say.
  • Must-haves
  • Active Michigan PT license (in good standing)
  • Strong clinical judgment and comfort working independently in the field
  • Comfortable escalating changes in condition to RN/MD and documenting rationale clearly
  • Strong communication and documentation
  • Reliable follow-through on orders, frequencies, and patient goals
  • Current driver’s license and comfort with daily travel across assigned territory
  • Able to carry/transport basic therapy equipment as needed

Competency in Core Home Health PT Scope

  • Safety-first mobility work: transfers, gait training, balance/fall prevention, assistive device recommendations
  • Strengthening, functional mobility, and home safety assessment/modification education
  • Patient/caregiver coaching with practical home programs
  • Nice-to-haves
  • Prior home health experience
  • Deeper clinical experience in high-signal PT populations
  • Experience supervising/mentoring PTAs and collaborating on care plans
  • Strong organization and time management

Our Guarantee

  • Full-time target: ~28 productivity points/week; clinicians earn more for exceeding it.
  • The rest of the package
  • $1k bonus for referrals (we’re growing)!
  • Benefits for full-time (medical/dental/vision, PTO)

#INDP1

Key Responsibilities

The Physical Therapist will manage a full caseload of home health patients, performing comprehensive assessments and executing personalized plans of care. They are responsible for driving positive patient outcomes, coordinating with the multidisciplinary team, and maintaining high-quality clinical documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an active Michigan Physical Therapist license and possess strong clinical judgment for independent field work. Prior home health experience is strongly preferred, along with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage daily travel.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Physical TherapyCase ManagementBalance TrainingPatient AssessmentCare PlanningPatient Coaching

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$115k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $120k in an average-cost state. 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physical Therapist (PT) at Adaptive Home Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physical Therapy — ranked against 22,081 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc.

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Salary Distribution41 jobs · 37 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks39 jobs · 37 employers

401k / retirement match
90%
CME allowance
74%
Sign-on bonus
64%
Loan repayment
44%
Relocation assistance
10%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 6.0
Better work-life than 60% of Physical Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 22,081 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Detroit

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$80k≈ 0.8× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,341/mo≈ 16% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.3
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Adaptive Home Health

Home Health Care Services
Richardson, Texas
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision
PTO
$1k referral bonus
AI-native platform with ambient scribing
Optimized routing