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AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.

AMN Healthcare is a leading US healthcare workforce solutions and staffing company, providing travel nurse, locum tenens and allied health staffing plus managed services and technology to hospitals and healthcare organizations.

Last updated October 30, 2026

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Overview

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. is an American healthcare workforce solutions and staffing company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the largest providers of clinical staffing and workforce management services to hospitals, health systems, physician groups and other healthcare organizations across the United States. The company operates through segments that span nurse and allied health staffing, locum tenens (temporary physician and advanced-practice clinician) staffing, and technology and workforce solutions such as managed services programs (MSP), vendor management systems, scheduling software and language services. AMN's core business is connecting healthcare employers with clinicians. Its travel nurse and allied health divisions place nurses, therapists and technicians on temporary assignments, while its locum tenens business supplies physicians and advanced practice providers to fill short- and long-term gaps. Beyond staffing, AMN has built a technology and services layer — including managed services programs, recruitment process outsourcing, predictive workforce analytics and language interpretation — that helps clients plan and manage their workforces more strategically. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMN. Its revenue is closely tied to US hospital labor demand, which surged during the COVID-19 pandemic and then normalized, making AMN a closely watched bellwether for healthcare labor market conditions. AMN serves thousands of healthcare facilities nationwide and positions itself as a strategic workforce partner rather than a pure transactional staffing agency.

History

AMN Healthcare traces its roots to the late 1980s, when it was founded as a nurse staffing company in San Diego, California. It grew through acquisitions into one of the largest healthcare staffing firms in the United States, expanding from travel nursing into allied health, locum tenens and physician permanent placement. The company went public and has traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMN. Over the years AMN assembled a portfolio of staffing brands and service lines, including nurse and allied staffing, locum tenens operations, and workforce technology businesses. It also built out managed services programs (MSP) and vendor management technology, shifting its model from pure per-placement staffing toward longer-term, technology-enabled workforce partnerships with hospitals and health systems. The COVID-19 pandemic produced an extraordinary surge in demand for travel nurses and temporary clinicians, driving record revenue and profits for AMN and its peers. As the pandemic subsided, demand and bill rates normalized, and the company has since focused on cost discipline, technology investment and diversification into higher-margin workforce solutions and language services. AMN remains headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and is a bellwether for US healthcare labor market trends.

  • Founded as a nurse staffing company in San Diego, California

  • Expanded through acquisitions into allied health and locum tenens staffing

  • Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker AMN

  • Built managed services programs (MSP) and workforce technology offerings

  • Experienced record demand for travel nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Products and positioning

Strategic healthcare workforce solutions partner combining clinical staffing with technology-enabled workforce management for US hospitals and health systems.

  • Travel nurse staffing

  • Locum tenens staffing

  • Allied health staffing

  • Managed services programs (MSP)

  • Workforce analytics and scheduling software

  • Language interpretation services

Recent events

  • AMN Healthcare announces a $300 million senior notes offering[2]

    Reported:

    AMN Healthcare Services announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, AMN Healthcare, Inc., intended to privately offer $300 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2027, subject to market and other conditions. The company said it intended to use the proceeds partly to repay debt and for general corporate purposes.

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