A New York City-based healthcare startup that matches clinicians with healthcare facilities to fill short-term clinical vacancies has expanded into nursing. Nomad Health has opened a nursing marketplace in Texas, according to a news release.
Why Texas? The company observed that it is one of the most understaffed healthcare markets in the country and the largest state in the Nurse Licensure Compact. The Compact permits nurses with an NLC license to practice in any of the 25 states that are part of the NLC. The company plans to roll out its service for short-term nurse vacancies to states across the U.S. this year and next year.
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Nomad Health Cofounder and CEO Alexi Nazem said in response to emailed questions that although it’s focus is RNs (as opposed to LPNs), it’s hard to predict which specialty would be most in demand.
“Probably ‘med-surg’ (medical-surgical) nursing will be popular as it is so common. Also, obstetrical nursing and critical care (i.e. ICU) will be popular,” Nazem wrote.
In an interview last year, Nazem said the company’s business model is designed to cut out brokers in favor of greater billing transparency and lower commissions.
An algorithm matches the needs of hospitals with the most qualified clinicians based on licensing, dates available, specialty, and location, among other things.
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Since Nomad’s launch in 2015, its doctor platform has expanded to 14 states, including California and Texas last month. To date, the service has found that the three most in demand physicians are for internal medicine, emergency medicine, and psychiatry (but the platform is open to all specialties and the doctor segment is varied).
Nomad isn’t the only business that sees an opportunity for leaner healthcare recruiting businesses. RampUp Nursing, for example, bills itself as a “talent-search career platform”. Among the companies’ clients are telemedicine business MDLive, CVS Health, Dignity Health and Banner Health.
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