Alliance Physical Therapy Partners was Certified™ by Great Place To Work® in 2026; the culmination of an intensive process to collect feedback from current employees about their experience working in our many Partner clinics and Central Services Team.
It’s a milestone we’re proud to have achieved, while knowing that it’s not a finish line. There is always more work to do when you are a People-First organization, but this is an encouraging accomplishment to see how far we have come during our organization’s history.
What Does it Mean to be a Great Place to Work®?
Great Place to Work is an independent organization that facilitates real-time, verified employee feedback to certify companies as great places to work when the employee feedback meets certain criteria and positive experience benchmarks.
Companies undergo the certification process voluntarily and Certification is not guaranteed, which is why it is a great honor to have achieved the first time pursuing this Certification.
You can read details about the Great Place to Work process of certification on their website, as well as discover more granular results from APTP’s survey.
Why Does Culture Matter?
Whether businesses prioritize it or not, culture is the foundation of any successful organization, especially one in the healthcare field. In order to meet patients day in and day out with care, compassion, understanding, and effective treatments, the culture of every clinic must be healthy.
Building a values-driven culture from veteran leadership that extends to the newest hire is the only way we can be consistent in a demanding field. If our culture is strong, everything else, from performance to patient health, follows naturally.
These terms may sound aspirational or vague, but things like company culture are created in the clinic every day. Because our culture is made up of so many different people in vastly different communities, it’s helpful to have a tool like the Great Place To Work Survey to help us reflect on the overall health of our culture, including what still needs work.
How We’ve Designed Our Culture
Alliance Physical Therapy Partners has made deliberate and consistent efforts to nourish and strengthen our culture over the last several years. First, the continued emphasis on our People First value when making strategic decisions for growth and operations. Second, we implemented a Human Resource Business Partner position in executive leadership to help us prioritize making human-centered business decisions at the highest level. Third, we have expanded our employee benefits in recent years, adding paternity leave, as one example.
Finally, we would be remiss not to mention the foundation of our culture being the model of support and leadership we employ for our Partners. Alliance Physical Therapy Partners is founded on the principle of Partnership — rather than outright ownership — where we value collaboration and shared success with individual clinicians and partner companies.
We are also focused on clinicians as the heart of our organization: when our clinicians are supported and satisfied in their role, they provide exceptional care to their patients and communities.
How this Certification Affects our Partners
Having achieved Certification™ on our first attempt is a meaningful signal that we are, in general, headed in the right direction as a Partner to so many clinics throughout the country. However, it’s not just a tool for us to celebrate ourselves; it also provided real-world data to what we must focus on to keep improving the day-to-day job satisfaction of our clinicians and team members.
Our leadership is taking the results of Great Place To Work seriously and will continue to share transparently among our Partners about what we’re doing now to address some of the most identified areas of growth.
Where We Go From Here
The Great Place To Work® Certification™ itself is not the end goal—rather, it represents our organization’s commitment to look at ourselves honestly and critically. It reflects our willingness to acknowledge where we have opportunities to improve and to act on the insights we receive.
Progress that helps our clinicians and patients requires humility; it requires us to hold ourselves accountable to our partners and team member, and to have courage to do better when we fall short. This mindset, more than any certification, is what strengthens our culture and drives meaningful, lasting improvement.
Looking for a great place to work in outpatient physical therapy? Check out our current job opportunities at an Alliance Physical Therapy Partner near you.
