The county seat of Lincoln County and the location of Lincoln County Hospital is Lincoln, Kan. The Lincoln County Courthouse was built in 1900 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Kansas Register of Historic Places.

Lincoln is located in Kansas’s heartland, 45 miles northwest from Salina and about 100 miles from Wichita. The town possesses historic limestone buildings throughout the downtown area and is just 25 miles from beautiful Lake Wilson. Lincoln offers many outdoor activities, including water sports, hunting, fishing and high school athletic events.

Lincoln County Hospital sign

Lincoln County has excellent school systems in Lincoln and Sylvan Grove, with many churches and daycare providers in the area as well. The Crispin pharmacy museum, Girl Scout museum and the Historic Carnegie Library are three local attractions. The community also includes a thriving art center with rotating exhibits, a movie theater, golf course, pharmacy and many retail businesses. The city park provides a swimming pool, ball fields, tennis courts, and playgrounds, as well as fine historic stone buildings.



To learn more about health care career opportunities in rural Kansas, contact the Kansas Recruitment Center, Rural Health Education and Services, at 888-503-4221.


Lincoln County Hospital is a 14-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH), open since 1950. The hospital offers acute and skilled swing bed care for medical and surgical patients. A rural health clinic is on site as well.

Lincoln County Hospital sign

The hospital is part of a small community atmosphere with a focus on “neighbors helping neighbors.” The service area includes the communities of Lincoln, Sylvan Grove, Beverly and Barnard with approximately 3,500 residents.

Services include radiology with CT, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and MRI; laboratory services; and physical, occupational and speech therapy. The hospital is staffed by one physician and one physician assistant with a second PA joining in August 2009.

Staff members benefit from a flexible call schedule, excellent benefits and superior pension plan.

LCH is excited for a complete hospital remodeling project to begin October 2009, with an emergency room expansion.