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The Benefits Package clients to streamline their contracting processes and outsource their entire supplemental staffing to one company. MSP had been going on in corporate America for some time, with larger companies creating master service vendor programs and working with one major partner to outsource all temporary supplemental needs. These types of MSP relationships enable clients to develop better analytics, control labor spending and improve the consistency and quality of temporary staff. Healthcare providers became convinced that MSP partnerships could work for their industry, too. They also began to see the benefits of outsourcing permanent Providers also began to see the benefits of outsourcing permanent placement of healthcare staff, from surgeons to technicians, to one dedicated team with national recruitment expertise and clinical experience. placement of healthcare staff, from surgeons to technicians, to one dedicated team with national recruitment expertise and clinical experience. Providers began entering RPO partnerships to handle time-sensitive hiring and project-based growth, including for any clinical specialty. Instead of healthcare systems undertaking the complex processes of recruiting, screening, credentialing and on-boarding for clinical specialties, the RPO service handles all of it. For healthcare administrators and managers struggling to cope with change in the healthcare reform era, that can be of great help. Healthcare providers were previously resistant to such outsourcing. But when AMN started to see an attitude change, we put a stake in the ground, deciding that we were going to be the leader in providing outsourced workforce solutions, starting with MSP and RPO. us the largest network of high-quality clinicians in the nation. Most importantly, it provided us an opportunity to better align with our clients' workforce needs, enabling providers to successfully reduce complexity, increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes within the rapidly evolving healthcare environment. Today, AMN Healthcare provides a set of very strong workforce solution services, backed up by the largest healthcare staffing and recruitment capabilities in the country. We've taken our relationships with clients to a whole new level and have been rewarded with industry-leading growth and market share gains in many of our divisions. Favorable macrotrends lie before us. We are now in an era of growing clinician shortages along with rising demand for services due to an aging patient population and healthcare reform, which will provide medical coverage In 2008, AMN started offering MSP and RPO services. While we for an additional 32 million Americans. Rapid change will were making good progress, we continued to see even greater increasingly persuade healthcare systems to look for expert appetite from our clients for these services. So when we had the partners to outsource critical functions. Since healthcare is at opportunity to acquire the largest provider of managed services, its heart a people industry, developing effective workforce Medfinders, we did that in 2010. solutions will continue to be an area of very active outsourcing. This was a critical move and defining moment for AMN, because we significantly differentiated ourselves from other healthcare staffing organizations with respect to our experience and execution in providing workforce solutions. This move gave Susan Salka is President and CEO of AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. MAY 2013 | www.hrotoday.com [57]