Article: HENNEPIN COUNTY: MENTAL HEALTH; Wanted: Qualified psychiatrist; regular hours, no weekends; To fill a position that's been open for 18 months, Hennepin County is raising salaries to bring them in line with Twin Cities market rates.(NEWS)

Byline: KEVIN DUCHSCHERE; STAFF WRITER

Hennepin County is looking for a few good shrinks. Actually, just one would do right now.

For the past 18 months, the state's most populous county has been beating the bushes for good candidates to fill a vacant psychiatrist position in its mental health center. All that work yielded only five applicants and one bona fide candidate, who cited location and hours as the reasons she chose another job.

"I've done this now for about 10 years and this is the first time we've ever experienced this long a period of time where we had so few applicants," Paul Traugh, administrative manager of the county's Mental ...

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