AMN Healthcare

AMN Healthcare is a U.S.-based healthcare workforce solutions company. Founded in 1985 as a regional travel-nursing staffing business, it has grown into a provider of staffing and workforce-management services for healthcare organizations. Its offerings address employers seeking to recruit, schedule, and deploy clinical and nonclinical personnel, as well as healthcare professionals looking for jobs and assignments. The company provides a broad range of staffing arrangements, including travel, temporary-to-hire, per diem, contract, and permanent placements. Its staffing areas include nursing, allied healthcare, physician and advanced-practice roles, revenue cycle, school-based services, nonclinical positions, language interpretation, and strike staffing. AMN also offers workforce technology and strategic management services, including solutions for workforce analytics, assessment, scheduling, and talent sourcing. Its website presents technology and staffing as connected parts of a broader workforce-solutions offering. AMN serves healthcare employers and job seekers across the United States. Its allied-careers offering connects professionals in fields such as therapy, respiratory therapy, imaging and radiology, medical laboratory work, and social work with facilities and assignments. AMN Passport is among its mobile offerings for healthcare professionals. The company has also expanded its service portfolio through acquisitions and the integration of acquired businesses into its healthcare workforce operations. AMN Healthcare is a publicly traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMN. Its public-facing positioning emphasizes partnership with healthcare organizations, flexible workforce coverage, technology-enabled operations, and support for the “mission of care.” The company remains active and markets itself as a national healthcare workforce solutions provider.

AMN Healthcare began in 1985 as a regional travel-nursing staffing company. Over time, the business expanded beyond its original staffing focus to serve a wider range of healthcare employers and professionals. The company describes this evolution as a transition from a regional travel-nursing company into a national healthcare workforce solutions provider. Its present-day portfolio combines staffing services with workforce technology and strategic talent-management capabilities. The company’s staffing model covers a range of employment arrangements, including travel, temporary-to-hire, per diem, contract, and permanent placement. Its service areas have broadened to include nursing, allied healthcare, physicians, advanced practice, revenue cycle, schools, nonclinical roles, language interpreters, and strike staffing. This breadth allows AMN to address different types of labor needs through a single healthcare-focused provider. Technology and workforce management became increasingly prominent in AMN’s offering. The company describes tools and services for workforce analytics, assessment, scheduling, and talent sourcing, and promotes technology intended to accommodate changes in service lines, facilities, and regional expansion. AMN Passport is a mobile app for healthcare professionals. In 2023, AMN unveiled ShiftWise Flex, a vendor management system, and acquired MSDR, which the company’s history page describes as comprising two businesses specializing in locum tenens and advanced practices. In October of that year, the company also integrated the Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care brands into AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions. In 2024, AMN announced several workforce and technology developments: the launch of Televate, a teletherapy platform for K–12 students, and WorkWise, a workforce management and talent-sourcing technology. The company also appointed Jim Hinton to its board, named Tomya Watt Chief People Officer, and appointed Brian Scott Chief Financial and Operating Officer. These changes and launches illustrate the company’s continued development of its workforce technology and service portfolio. AMN’s public identity centers on being a healthcare workforce partner rather than solely a staffing agency. Its website describes comprehensive staffing, technology, and strategic management as connected solutions for healthcare organizations, while its careers pages connect professionals with nationwide opportunities. The company is publicly traded under the ticker AMN and remains active as a U.S. healthcare workforce solutions provider.

• 2024

  AMN launched Televate, a teletherapy platform for K–12 students.

• 2024

  AMN launched WorkWise, a workforce management and talent-sourcing technology.

• 2024

  AMN appointed Jim Hinton to its Board of Directors.

• 2024

  AMN appointed Tomya Watt Chief People Officer and Brian Scott Chief Financial and Operating Officer.

• 2023

  AMN acquired MSDR, a group of two businesses specializing in locum tenens and advanced practices.

• 2023

  Merritt Hawkins and Staff Care integrated into AMN Healthcare Physician Solutions.

• 2023

  AMN unveiled ShiftWise Flex, a vendor management system.

• 1985

  AMN Healthcare was founded as a regional travel-nursing staffing company.

A technology-enabled, full-spectrum healthcare workforce partner serving healthcare employers and clinicians, with staffing, workforce-management, and talent-planning capabilities.

• AMN Passport

  A mobile app for healthcare professionals; AMN reported that downloads surpassed 200,000 in 2023.

• ShiftWise Flex

  A vendor management system unveiled by AMN in 2023.

• WorkWise

  A workforce management and talent-sourcing technology launched in 2024.

• Televate

  A teletherapy platform for K–12 students launched in 2024.

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2. 2History of AMN Healthcare | AMN Healthcareamnhealthcare.com
3. 3Healthcare Staffing Agency | AMN Healthcareamnhealthcare.com
4. 4Allied Healthcare Jobs | AMN Healthcareamnhealthcare.com
5. 5AMN Healthcare (United States)wikidata.org
6. 6AMN Healthcare Launches $300 Million Offering Of Senior Notesprnewswire.com
7. 7AMN Healthcare Mission to Guatemala Wins Top CSR Award from American Staffing Associationprnewswire.com