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About

Jackson Healthcare is a family of highly specialized healthcare staffing, search and technology companies.

About

Jackson Healthcare is a family of highly specialized healthcare staffing, search and technology companies.

Our companies provide healthcare systems, hospitals and medical facilities of all sizes with the skilled and specialized labor and technologies they need to deliver high quality patient care and achieve the best possible outcomes — while connecting healthcare professionals to the temporary engagements, contract assignments and permanent placement employment opportunities they desire.

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Headquartered in metro Atlanta, we’re powered by more than 2,600 associates and over 20,000 clinician providers covering all 50 U.S. states.

Our mission is to improve the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone we touch. This includes the patients, clinicians and healthcare executives we work with through our companies every day, as well as our communities, the nonprofit organizations we support and each associate who is part of our family.

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Proud to Appear on the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For®” and PEOPLE® “Companies that Care” Lists

20,000+

Backed by Thousands of Clinician Providers Covering All 50 U.S. States

10 Million+

Helping Thousands of Healthcare Facilities Serve Over 10 Million Patients Annually

History

Jackson Healthcare was founded by our Chairman and CEO Rick Jackson and began based on a simple principle — that talented professionals with a shared purpose can improve the lives of patients, families, communities and each other. For more than two decades, we’ve expanded through a blend of acquisition and organic growth. Today, our family of companies includes 21 businesses that are leaders and innovators in their markets, and trusted partners to those they serve. 

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Rick and Shane

The year 2000 marked the start of Jackson Healthcare. LocumTenens.com, Premier Anesthesia and what is today known as Jackson Physician Search became our first healthcare staffing and search brands. The business continued to grow with the additions of Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens, Jackson Nurse Professionals, Jackson Therapy Partners and Parker Staffing. We then launched Care Logistics. By 2007, our family of companies covered an array of high-growth, rapid-evolving markets, including locums, permanent physician and allied health staffing; anesthesia management; and technology. 

We further expanded our footprint in allied health with the launch of Jackson Pharmacy Professionals and then introduced VirtualMed Staff, an innovative telemedicine business (now part of LocumTenens.com). With our acquisitions of Tyler & Company (now part of Kirby Bates Associates) and Sullivan Healthcare Consulting, we extended our strength in healthcare executive search and brought workforce and leadership consulting to our collective offerings. We then launched Healthcare Workforce Logistics ( HWL), adding managed service programs (MSP) and vendor management system (VMS) solutions. The acquisitions of Kirby Bates Associates and Avant Healthcare Professionals furthered our strength in healthcare executive and workforce and leadership consulting, and in nurse and allied health solutions. 

In 2021, USAntibiotics, the country’s only domestic manufacturer of Amoxicillin became part of our family of companies. We also launched Jackson Healthcare Government Services to provide healthcare staffing and support services to all tiers of federal, state and municipal government. 

Between 2023 and 2024, our footprint expanded with the addition of five businesses. Building on our strength in nursing and allied health, LRS Healthcare joined our family of companies, followed by the launch of allied health specialty business, Jackson HealthPros. We also introduced a new locums business, Venn Workforce Optimization. Kimedics and Inlightened – both part of LocumTenens.com – joined the organization, as well, adding robust technology platforms to help healthcare systems, hospitals and medical facilities optimize their workforces and meet the rising demand for flexible gig work among clinicians.

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Over the Years

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2000

Marks the founding of Jackson Healthcare by our Chairman and CEO Rick Jackson

locum tenens
2000

Adds LocumTenens.com to our family of companies

2002

Welcomes Premier Anesthesia to our family of companies

2002

Launches Jackson Physician Search – originally called Jackson & Harris and later part of Jackson & Coker Locum Tenens

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2006

Expands our family of companies with the addition of Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens, Jackson Nurse Professionals, Jackson Therapy Partners and Parker Staffing

care logistics
2006

Launches Care Logistics as part of our family of companies

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2008

Establishes our corporate headquarters on Northwinds Parkway in Alpharetta, Georgia

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2010

Introduces Jackson PharmacyPros (Jackson Pharmacy Professionals) as part of our family of companies

virtual med staff
2013

Launches VirtualMed Staff (now part of LocumTenens.com) as part of our family of companies

tyler and company
2013

Adds Tyler & Company (now part of Kirby Bates Associates) to our family of companies

sullivan
2014

Expands our family of companies with the addition of Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

healthcare workforce logistics
2017

Introduces HWL (Healthcare Workforce Logistics) as part of our family of companies

kirby bates
2017

Expands our family of companies with the addition of Kirby Bates Associates

2018

Surpasses $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time

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2018

Welcomes Avant Healthcare Professionals to our family of companies

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2019

Completes $100 million expansion of our corporate campus in Alpharetta, Georgia

20 year anniversary
2020

Celebrates 20th anniversary in 2020

US antibiotics
2021

Adds USAntibiotics to our family of companies

2021

Launches Jackson Healthcare Government Services as part of our family of companies

2022

Surpasses $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time

2023

Welcomes LRS Healthcare to our family of companies

2023

Expands our family of companies with the addition of Inlightened, as part of LocumTenens.com

2023

Adds Kimedics to our family of companies as part of LocumTenens.com

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2024

Launches Venn Workforce Optimization as part of our family of companies

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2024

Introduces Jackson HealthPros as part of our family of companies

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2024

Launches Continuous Care as part of our family of companies

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Awards & Recognition

We are consistently recognized as a best workplace both locally and nationally — and have appeared for six consecutive years on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Health Care and four years on the Best Workplaces for Women. We also have been named a best place to work for Millennials and one of Atlanta’s Healthiest Workplaces.

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Leadership

Our executive team and the leadership of our family of companies bring extensive experience and business acumen to support our healthcare staffing, search and technology companies and the healthcare systems, facilities and professionals we serve each day. And our esteemed advisory board provides vital outside-in counsel about our evolving industry and markets.