Field notes · Updated October 2026
A Healing Center in Plainville, Kansas (Not Open Yet, On Purpose)
Here is where the building actually stands, what is going inside it, and what we are not going to promise you until the doors open.
317 W. Mill St, Plainville, Kansas. The former Shaw Hotel, nine thousand square feet of it, sitting on the main street of a town of fewer than two thousand people. We are restoring it from the brick up.
We're in downtown Plainville, about 20 minutes north of Hays on US-183 (roughly 23 miles, city limits to city limits), serving families across Rooks and Ellis counties and northwest Kansas.
That work is slow and unphotogenic. Wiring, plumbing, plaster, permits, and a great deal of hauling things out before anything goes in. There is no ribbon to cut yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What follows is what the finished building is meant to be, written down now so you can hold us to it later.
What is going inside
- Seven private studio apartments for therapeutic residencies, daily therapies included
- A full therapy floor, with every session run on a written protocol you can read first
- Tiered memberships, with free reverse osmosis water and weekly purified ice
- An organic juice and coffee bar, plus a refill market for herbs, spices, and supplements
Therapeutic residencies are built for a real stay: a private studio, daily therapies, and time enough for the work to matter.
The therapy floor
Six therapies, each one run on a written protocol you can read before you book it: what happens, how long it takes, and the settings we run it at. We write the protocol down because precision is the whole point. Your body already knows how to heal. Our job is to build the environment that supports that work, run it the same way every time, and then get out of the way. When that floor opens, hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Kansas will not mean a flight to a coast, and infrared sauna sessions in Plainville will be a short drive rather than a trip.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen. Protocol-first sessions. Pressure, duration, and cadence set in writing before you step in.
- Infrared Sauna. Private suites, posted temperature ranges, and a timer you control from the inside.
- Hydrotherapy. Cold plunge and mineral soak, with the water chemistry and temperature posted daily.
- Photobiomodulation. Panel wavelengths and irradiance published, so you know exactly what you are standing in.
- Hydrogen Inhalation. Delivered by cannula, with the flow rate, the concentration, and the session length posted before you sit down.
- PEMF. Mat and coil sessions with the frequency and intensity settings written on the sheet.
What we are not going to tell you yet
We are not posting prices, and we are not taking bookings.
The reason is plain: we are not open. Any number we published today is a number we would likely have to change later, and we would rather publish nothing than publish something we have to walk back.
What we will say now is the part that is not going to change. Serious therapies belong within reach of the families who live here, not only within reach of the people who can afford to fly somewhere for them. That conviction is older than this building, and it will outlast whatever the numbers turn out to be.
Why a town this size
Because this is where the gap is widest. Wellness of this kind clusters where the money already is, and northwest Kansas is not where the money already is. The people here work, and they are tired, and the honest options within a two hour drive are thin. That is the whole argument for putting it on Mill St instead of somewhere with an airport.
I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:10, NASB. Abundant life was not offered on a sliding scale to the people who could afford it. That verse is the thesis of the company, not decoration on a wall.
Meanwhile, the writing is already open
The building is one of two things we are making. The other is the writing, and that one is finished enough to use today. Every study we read, every mechanism we can explain plainly, and every fundamental that matters more than any therapy listed above goes on the blog, free, whether or not you ever walk through the door at 317 W. Mill St.
Start with The Five Pillars of Owning Your Health , or read everything we have published.
When there is something to announce
Doors opening, founding memberships, and residency dates land in the letter before they land anywhere else. You can also write to us directly at support@thshealing.com.