Articles from CHG Healthcare

As physician shortages deepen across the U.S., health systems are increasingly turning to locum tenens providers to maintain patient access and revenue. CHG Healthcare’s newly released 2025 State of Locum Tenens Report highlights how temporary staffing is evolving from a stopgap measure to a strategic solution.

CHG Healthcare, the nation’s leading physician and advanced practice workforce solutions provider, announced the appointment of Theresa O’Leary as Chief Information Officer. O’Leary joins CHG from UPS, where she was Vice President of Technology, leading global digital transformation. O’Leary brings 20 years of experience in technology strategy, cybersecurity, and enterprise modernization and will oversee CHG’s technology and IT operations, driving innovation to support the company’s leadership in healthcare staffing solutions. She will report to CEO Leslie Snavely.

CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest physician staffing company, has announced the promotion of Kerry Norman to Chief People Officer. Norman, a fierce champion of the company’s award-winning culture, will oversee the people and culture teams as well as continuing to be a key member of CHG’s executive leadership team. She sees the new role as an opportunity to double down on strengthening the employee experience and continuing CHG’s reputation as one of the best places to work.

CHG Healthcare, the leader in healthcare workforce solutions, announces the launch of Nursesmart, a next-generation vendor management system (VMS) designed specifically for nurse staffing. Nursesmart builds on the proven success of Locumsmart, the #1 physician VMS, which provides access to 82% of the locum tenens market. Now, CHG extends this expertise to nursing, giving healthcare organizations greater transparency, control, and efficiency in their staffing processes.

CHG Healthcare, a leading staffing agency specializing in physician recruitment, today announced it has earned national recognition with inclusion for the 12th time on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list in 2025, published by Fortune and Great Place To Work®. The company’s culture of putting people first continues to set the standard for workplace excellence and reaffirms CHG’s mission of using purpose to drive every decision.

CHG Healthcare, a leading staffing agency specializing in physician recruitment, has acquired CareerMD, a career management platform offering both digital and live events to help clinicians find their first job out of training.

CHG Healthcare, the nation’s leading physician-centered workforce solutions company, has once again been recognized for its unmatched commitment to physician satisfaction with three of its premier staffing brands – CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare and Global Medical Staffing – achieving ClearlyRated’s Best of Staffing Talent Award for 2025, recognizing its superior service to candidates. This prestigious award highlights agencies that demonstrate outstanding service quality based on candidate ratings.

Weatherby Healthcare has announced the promotion of Michael DePaolis to President. Current President Luke Woodyard was also promoted and will take on the pivotal leadership role of Group President with parent company CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest physician staffing firm.

Weatherby Healthcare has received a Job Development Investment Grant from the state of North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The medical staffing company plans to move its in-state operations from Durham to Raleigh and will add 155 jobs while investing $7.6 million to expand its operations in the state.

CHG Healthcare, a leading staffing agency specializing in physician recruitment, proudly announced that three of its staffing brands – CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare and Global Medical Staffing – have achieved the Best of Staffing Talent Award for 2024, recognizing its superior service to candidates. This prestigious award highlights agencies that demonstrate outstanding service quality based on candidate ratings.

CHG Healthcare has announced the promotion of Leslie Snavely to CEO of the nation’s largest physician staffing company. CEO Scott Beck will retire and transition to an advisory role as executive chair of the CHG Board of Directors. Beck has been with CHG for 25 years, serving the last 10 years as CEO.

CHG Healthcare published the 2024 State of Locum Tenens Report, tracking the emerging and continuing trends in the temporary-physician staffing industry. CHG is the nation’s largest provider of locum tenens — or temporary, traveling healthcare provider — services. Highlights of the 2024 report include:

CHG Healthcare has announced the launch of a new advisory services branch. Advisory Services from CHG Healthcare, as it will be known, will provide consulting services to help hospitals and healthcare organizations deal with mounting provider shortages, rising costs, shrinking revenues, lack of visibility and slow adoption of technology.

CHG Healthcare has officially launched two mobile apps focused on creating a one-stop-shop for healthcare providers working locum tenens assignments. Locum tenens, or traveling assignments, give clinicians flexibility in when and where they work, while helping hospitals and healthcare organizations maintain adequate coverage and avoid gaps in patient care. The two apps, MyCompHealth and MyWeatherby, went live in Google Play and Apple App Store today, and are for use by providers working assignments with each respective staffing company. The apps will allow healthcare professionals to track everything from travel details to shift assignments in one place, all from their smartphone. The focus of this mobile app is to continue elevating the experience traveling providers have when working with our world-class staffing companies.

Leslie Snavely, President of CHG Healthcare, has been named to Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) 2023 Global Power 150 Women in Staffing honorees. In its ninth year, this annual list recognizes women for exceptional contributions in the staffing industry.

Foundry's Computerworld announces CHG Healthcare as a 2024 Best Place to Work in IT. This award recognizes the top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation. Organizations will be included in coverage on Computerworld.com along with results from the 2024 Best Places to Work in IT survey. CHG took fourth place overall on this year’s list of midsize companies.

CHG Healthcare, a leading staffing agency, announced today that all four of its staffing brands have won the Best of Staffing Talent Award for providing superior service to their candidates. CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare, Global Medical Staffing and RNnetwork all received the honors. Awarded in partnership with presenting sponsor Indeed and gold sponsor Talent.com, ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® Award winners have proven to be industry leaders in service quality based entirely on ratings provided by their candidates. On average, job seekers who work with winning agencies are 80% more likely to be completely satisfied with the services provided compared to those placed by non-winning agencies. Each agency received a Net Promoter ® Score significantly higher than the industry average of 19% in 2022:

CHG Healthcare, the nation’s largest provider of locum tenens services, today released its 2023 State of Locum Tenens Report, an overview of trends in today’s short-term physician staffing landscape. Highlighting key industry insights, the report shows a significant increase in the number of physicians taking locum tenens assignments, that physicians are testing short-term roles earlier in their careers, and that healthcare organizations are planning on increasing their use of locum tenens assignments to fill critical roles.

CHG Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest privately held healthcare staffing companies, today announced the promotions of Lisa Grabl as CHG Healthcare group president, Brooke Bowers as CompHealth’s locum tenens division president, and Kerry Norman as executive vice president of operations. These executives cumulatively bring almost 50 years of experience in the locum tenens staffing industry and contribute to a rising trend of women leadership, where 44% of director and above roles at CHG are held by women. As part of their expanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), CHG recently announced signing the Parity Pledge, has been part of the Shatter List for three consecutive years, and was recognized as one of 100 Companies Championing Women.