AMN Healthcare Services : and Aegis Therapies Win Staffing Partnership Award from HRO Today

SAN DIEGO, June 7, 2016/PRNewswire / -- AMN Healthcare and Aegis Therapies won the Partnership in Staffing Excellence award in the 2016 HRO Today Services and Technology Association Awards. The award recognized the high-achieving partnership for an AMN managed services program (MSP) that helped Aegis reduce costs through efficiencies, improve quality and address challenges associated with hiring contract labor.

The MSP is led by Josh Ferguson, a key member of the Strategic Workforce Solutions team at AMN Healthcare, and Kay McCall, Vice President of Recruiting & Staffing at Aegis Therapies. Aegis Therapies, part of the Golden Livingfamily of companies, is a nationally recognized leader in contract rehabilitation and wellness services. The Partnership in Staffing Excellence award recognized the design, implementation and delivery of a total workforce solution through a partnership program.

'It's an honor for our partnership with Aegis Therapies to receive this recognition,' said Dan White, President of Strategic Workforce Solutions at AMN Healthcare. 'In a rapidly growing home healthcare environment, the AMN MSP provided Aegis with a single point of contact to manage many staffing agencies while automating credentialing, timekeeping, and billing and enhancing staff mix and fill rates. We developed the flexible staffing Aegis needed to support a wide variety of assignment types.'

AMN Healthcare is the leading provider of MSPs for healthcare. It has the nation's largest network of associate vendors to provide high-quality clinicians to meet clients' needs. AMN Healthcare also has developed the healthcare industry's most advanced practices to recruit, select, interview and onboard healthcare professionals. In addition, the AMN Healthcare family of companies provides MSP clients an unparalleled array of workforce solutions, such as predictive analytics to forecast staffing needs, interim leadership to address other workforce challenges in today's supply-constrained talent environment, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).

'The AMN MSP contributes to the strategic plans of our clients while also aligning with our own organizational goals to promote positive patient outcomes through the services we provide,' said Ms. McCall. 'With AMN, we have a partner to help us find the best people and manage them in the most efficient and effective way.'

Each year, the HRO Today Services and Technology Association Awards selects a theme for the awards criteria. The theme of this year's program was 'Be Connected! - HR Technology, Services and Leaders Unite.' The awards focused on high-achieving partnerships in a variety of categories.

About AMN Healthcare
AMN Healthcare is the leader and innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services to healthcare facilities across the nation. The Company provides unparalleled access to the most comprehensive network of quality healthcare professionals through its innovative recruitment strategies and breadth of career opportunities. With insights and expertise, AMN Healthcare helps providers optimize their workforce to successfully reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. AMN delivers managed services programs, healthcare executive search solutions, vendor management systems, recruitment process outsourcing, predictive modeling, medical coding and consulting, and other services. Clients include acute-care hospitals, community health centers and clinics, physician practice groups, retail and urgent care centers, home health facilities, and many other healthcare settings. For more information about AMN Healthcare, visit www.amnhealthcare.com.

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