AMN Healthcare to Acquire Medfinders

Expands Nation's Largest Healthcare Staffing and Workforce Solutions Company, Increases Growing Clinical Workforce Managed Services Capability

SAN DIEGO, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE:AHS - News), the nation's largest healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the parent company of Arlington, Texas-based Nursefinders, Inc. (dba Medfinders), one of the nation's leading providers of clinical workforce managed services programs. Through its multi-brand strategy, Medfinders also provides travel nurse and allied staffing, locum tenens, physician search services, and home healthcare services, as well as local nurse and allied staffing in support of its managed services programs.

"Bringing together the experience and diverse capabilities of both companies in healthcare staffing and managed services will create significant short and long-term benefits for our clients," said Susan Nowakowski, President and CEO of AMN Healthcare. "The expansion of our service lines resulting from this combination will substantially improve our ability to deliver an innovative, total workforce management and staffing solution to our broad and growing client base. This is a strategic opportunity for two leaders in healthcare staffing to come together to achieve additional sales and operating efficiencies while immediately enhancing and expanding our service offerings." 

"This is an ideal combination for our clients, healthcare professionals, and team members," said Bob Livonius, CEO of Medfinders. "As an integrated and increasingly diverse company, we will be even more effective and efficient in delivering high quality and innovative workforce management solutions to our clients across the full spectrum of clinical specialties and services."  Read More...