ABOUT ONWARD HEALTHCARE

Onward Healthcare was founded with the mission of providing the highest quality nursing and allied professionals to healthcare facilities by utilizing advanced technological recruitment systems and providing unparalleled customer service.

We recognize the challenges in today's health care staffing industry. New choices, new opportunities and new standards, brought on by high-tech medicine, rigid industry accreditation and rapidly escalating costs, present a challenging and engaging operating environment while creating a greater demand for experienced healthcare professionals. This environment demands leadership and Onward Healthcare is uniquely positioned and willing to help both healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals make the right choices for the times ahead.

Our experienced team of senior managers and recruiters possess a vast knowledge of the industry and prides themselves on one-on-one personal service, which in turn translates into top-level satisfaction ratings from our clients and travelers.

“Onward and Upward!” – It's not just our slogan, it's our way of thinking. We are pushing the boundaries of what a health care staffing company can offer both its clients and its candidates.

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A Healthcare Staffing Company

Onward Healthcare (“Onward”) is a leading healthcare staffing company and one of the premier providers of integrated travel and local per diem staffing for nursing and allied health professionals, international candidates and vendor managed services for large health systems. Onward currently staffs clients in all 50 states including hospitals, outpatient clinics, magnet facilities, government facilities, schools, and long-tem care facilities and is a preferred healthcare staffing provider for VHA Inc.

Onward currently maintains one of the largest databases of healthcare staffing professionals in the industry, as well as working relationships with thousands of healthcare facilities. We are able to continually grow these numbers as a result of an award winning print and online advertising campaign that has been proven to consistently attract top tier healthcare professionals and administrators. In addition, we own and operate nursejobs.com, one of the premier nursing job boards on the web.

Furthermore, Onward has developed a sophisticated and industry recognized clinician-based screening methodology to evaluate each employee's professional skills, talents, work experience, background and capabilities, and is focused on meeting all Joint Commission requirements of its hospital clients including HIPAA and OSHA regulations.

Onward Healthcare was founded in 2002 by Kevin Clark, one of the pioneers of the travel nursing industry, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, a leading U.S. private equity firm and one of the most successful investors in the health care staffing industry. In 2005, Onward was the second national health care staffing company to be certified by the Joint Commission for both travel nursing and local per diem healthcare staffing and received a 2 year recertification in 2006. Onward Healthcare is headquartered in Wilton, CT, with local staffing offices in Phoenix, AZ, Encinitas, CA, New Castle, DE, Burlington, MA, Crofton, MD, Cherry Hill, NJ, Livingston, NJ, Albuquerque, NM, Melville, NY, New York City, NY and Wexford, PA.

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