Looking for resource on which travel nurse agencies are owned by the same company.

[jjdd]

What's the connection between American Mobile Healthcare, NursesRx, NurseChoice and Onward Healthcare?

They're all owned by the same company.

Does anyone know of any database of some sort where it shows which agency brands are related?

[NedRN]

American Mobile brands are:

American Mobile Healthcare
Medical Express
NursesRx
Preferred Healthcare Staffing (brand disused as of Feb 2009)
Platinum Select
HRMC
O'Grady-Peyton International (international)
Staff Care (physician)
Merritt Hawkins & Associates (physician)
Nurse Choice
RN Demand (brand disused as of Feb 2009)
RN Extend
Med Travelers (allied)
Rx Pro Health (pharmacy)
Thera Tech Staffing (allied)
Medfinders (vendor management) acquired 2010
SingleSource (vendor management) acquired 2010
Nursefinders (vendor management, travel, local staffing) acquired 2010
Nursefinders Homecare acquired 2010
National Healthcare Staffing (travel) acquired 2010
Linde Healthcare/Kendall & Davis (physicians) acquired 2010
Resources On Call (allied health) acquired 2010
Club Staffing (allied health) acquired 2010

HealthSourceGlobal (strike and rapid response)

In addition: NurseZone This is a comprehensive nursing site, but does stealth marketing for AMN. And TravelNursing gives the impression of an independent job board.

[NedRN]

Cross Country's brands are:

Akos (research staffing)
Assent (research staffing)
Assignment America (international)
ClinForce (research staffing)
Cross Country Local (per diem)
Cross Country TravCorps
Cross Country Staffing (travel)
CRU48 (rapid response assignments)
Healthstaffers (government/military assignments)
MedStaff (travel and per diem)
MDA - Medical Doctor Associates (physician and allied health)
MRA Search (nurses and other Healthcare Professionals)
MRA - Metropolitan Research (research staffing)
NovaPro (travel)

In addition, they operate Cross Country University and Cross Country Education as separate subsidiaries and Cejka Search which is a mostly physician permanent placement agency. RNTravelSpace gives the appearance of an independent travel nurse resource page but is actually a recruiting page for CCTV's brands only.

[NedRN]

Does that help? Not sure how up to date those lists are, seems to me Onward has been acquired.

[jjdd]

Thanks NedRN. It does help. Amazing. That's a lot of brands - which do the same thing - owned by one company.

Any list of "all" the travel nursing agencies in the US?

[NedRN]

Well, until a couple years ago, I maintained a such a spreadsheet. But lots of new agencies form every year, with about an equal number either going out of business or becoming acquired so it was a bit of work and I no longer had a good reason to keep it up. You might be interested to know that it generally averaged about 400 agencies by my criteria, which required filling travel assignments with housing (at least a stipend). There are far more per diem agencies who can also do say 13 week contracts, but not travel per se, just per hour compensation.

I worked for one agency (now defunct) who only staffed two counties in Northern California just to picture how some agencies are super local, with many more only staffing regionally a few states.

Making a complete list of such agencies and making it useful for travelers would be a major undertaking. And there are just so many agencies, it would be hard to filter them in a useful way.

The rise of vendor managers means many more agencies all have access to the same travel assignments, so that makes it all the more complex.

And really, not much need for such a list outside of industry uses. Far better to build productive relationships with recruiters and ignore agency brands. Especially today when agencies are far less differentiated than they used to be.

[jjdd]

over 400? wow. Any idea which agencies have the most hospitals in CA?

[NedRN]

Nope, but there are a number of California based agencies. American Mobile is one. Cross Country is not California based, but I'd bet they have the same number of hospitals. They both also have "exclusive" hospital contracts but as they also act as vendor managers for those contracts, they have access to each other's hospitals and assignment. Like I said, it is complex. A tiny agency on the east coast may have access to all those same assignments via relationships (contracts) with vendor managers to fill open job orders.