Stock Report: AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (AHS) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. provides healthcare staffing and clinical workforce management solutions in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Nurse and Allied Healthcare Staffing, Locum Tenens Staffing, and Physician Permanent Placement Services. The Nurse and Allied Healthcare Staffing segment provides staffing solutions for hospitals and other healthcare facilities, including managed services workforce solutions; recruitment process outsourcing program for permanent staffing needs; and various traditional staffing service solutions of local, short, and long-term assignment lengths. This segment also offers allied health professionals under the Med Travelers, Club Staffing, and Rx Pro Health brand names to acute-care hospitals and other healthcare facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation clinics, and retail and mail-order pharmacies. These allied health professionals include physical therapists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, medical and radiology technologists, speech pathologists, rehabilitation assistants, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. The Locum Tenens Staffing segment places physicians of various specialties, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and dentists on a temporary basis as independent contractors with various healthcare organizations, including hospitals, medical groups, occupational medical clinics, individual practitioners, networks, psychiatric facilities, government institutions, and managed care entities. The Physician Permanent Placement Services segment provides permanent physician placement services to hospitals, healthcare facilities, and physician practice groups under the Merritt Hawkins and Kendall & Davis brand names. This segment also offers specialty offerings, including internal medicines, family practices, and surgeries. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.