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Overview

AdventHealth is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join the Mobile Women’s Clinic serving rural communities across Southeast Kansas, including Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, and Coffey counties. This full-time, 1.0 FTE position will provide accessible, high-quality ambulatory women’s health and OB/GYN services through recurring mobile clinic days across the region. The APP will deliver preventive and well-woman care, gynecologic evaluation, contraception and family-planning services, prenatal and postpartum care, patient education, and coordination of referrals and follow-up care. The role is primarily mobile and clinic-based, with no routine hospital responsibilities currently defined. Any future hospital involvement, procedures, credentialing, or patient-volume expectations will be determined based on final operational needs.

Schedule:

  • Full-time, 1.0 FTE; approximately 40 hours per week
  • Monday–Friday schedule
  • Recurring mobile clinic days across Southeast Kansas
  • Primarily mobile/ambulatory clinic practice
  • Final clinic schedule and service locations to be determined
  • Hospital time: To be determined; no routine hospital role currently anticipated

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Provide comprehensive preventive and well-woman care
  • Perform gynecologic histories, examinations, and assessments
  • Evaluate and manage common women’s health concerns
  • Provide contraception counseling and family-planning services
  • Deliver prenatal and postpartum care within the provider’s scope of practice
  • Perform office-based procedures consistent with training, privileges, and clinic protocols
  • Educate patients regarding preventive health, reproductive health, treatment plans, and follow-up care
  • Perform point-of-care ultrasound examinations as clinically appropriate, consistent with training, credentialing, established protocols, and scope of practice.
  • Identify conditions requiring additional evaluation or specialty care
  • Coordinate referrals, diagnostic testing, follow-up, and continuity of care
  • Collaborate with physicians, nursing staff, care coordinators, and community partners
  • Deliver compassionate, culturally responsive care to patients in rural and underserved communities
  • Document patient encounters accurately and in accordance with regulatory and organizational standards
  • Support safe, efficient, patient-centered care delivery in a mobile clinic environment

Required Qualifications:

  • Kansas Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant License (PA-C)
  • ACLS and BLS obtained through the American Heart Association
  • Ability to provide care in a mobile and ambulatory clinical setting
  • Experience in women’s health, OB/GYN, family medicine, primary care, or a related specialty
  • Demonstrated competency in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), or the ability to obtain required POCUS training and certification after hire.
  • Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to assigned mobile clinic locations

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience providing care in rural, community-based, or medically underserved settings
  • Experience with prenatal, postpartum, gynecologic, or contraceptive care
  • Strong communication, care-coordination, and patient-education skills
  • Comfort working independently while collaborating effectively with a multidisciplinary team

Hospital Description

AdventHealth Ottawa, formerly Ransom Memorial Health, is a 44-bed acute care hospital at 1301 S. Main Street, Ottawa, Kansas, serving Franklin County and surrounding communities. Joining the AdventHealth network in May 2019, it upholds a faith-based mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ, delivering whole-person care that nurtures physical, emotional, and spiritual health. The hospital offers a broad spectrum of services, including 24/7 emergency care, family medicine, cardiology, pediatrics, behavioral health, neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology, sleep medicine, cancer care, imaging, and surgical services. The AdventHealth Ottawa Health Park at 901 S. Main Street, housed in the renovated Gollier Building, provides additional specialty care, including Express Care for non-emergency needs with online scheduling or walk-in availability.

AdventHealth Ottawa integrates deeply with the community through initiatives like the annual Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan, conducted with local organizations to address regional health needs. The AdventHealth Ottawa Foundation, supported by donors like the Sunderland Foundation, funds expansion projects, such as the 2022 Health Park renovation, enhancing local access to advanced care. The hospital employs compassionate staff, including over 60 physicians across 33 specialties, and has earned accolades like a 2020 Top 20 Rural and Community Hospital ranking and Joint Commission accreditation. With a legacy dating back to 1931, when it was founded with community support, AdventHealth Ottawa remains a trusted healthcare hub, fostering a healthier, stronger Franklin County through compassionate, high-quality care.

Community Description

Ottawa, Kansas, is a charming, tight-knit community of about 12,000 residents, nestled along the Marais des Cygnes River just 45 minutes southwest of Kansas City, 20 minutes south of Lawrence and less than an hour from Topeka and Emporia. Known for its historic downtown, vibrant festivals like the Ol' Marais River Run, and the scenic Prairie Spirit Trail, Ottawa blends small-town warmth with rich cultural heritage. It is an excellent place to live and raise a family with updated schools and a vast offering of career and technical education programs along with a spacious Performing Arts Center.  Main street offers a variety of dining options, shopping and entertainment, including the oldest operating cinema in the world.  Home to Ottawa University and a thriving local business scene, it's a place where neighbors connect, history is celebrated, and outdoor recreation abounds.