VISTA In the News

Salt Lake City, Utah - October 1, 2009 - The Maine Hospital Association (MHA) has announced an exclusive endorsement relationship between their wholly-owned entity, Associated Health Resources, Inc. (AHR), VISTA Staffing Solutions, Inc., and On Assignment, Inc. VISTA, the physician staffing division of On Assignment, Inc , locates and arranges for independent contractor physicians to fill assignments for MHA member hospitals; and On Assignment will provide nursing and allied healthcare personnel for MHA member hospitals. MHA and VISTA have had an exclusive endorsed provider relationship since 2004. This new agreement reaffirms that relationship and expands it to include On Assignment as the exclusively endorsed provider of allied healthcare and nurse staffing services.

There's nothing like hunger to get the competitive juices flowing. Two Salt Lake City-based healthcare staffing companies announced their Food Fight to End Hunger today. VISTA Staffing Solutions, a physician staffing company, and CompHealth, a provider of physician and allied healthcare staffing, will compete through the month of June, with the winning company gathering the most pounds of food per employee on behalf of the Utah Food Bank and food banks in three additional states.

Locum tenens may extend the medical careers of physicians and help them avoid burnout, according to a survey commissioned in January 2008 by VISTA Staffing Solutions. Physicians surveyed indicated that locum tenens would be most attractive to physicians considering semi-retirement, those making a professional transition from one position to another, and residents completing training who want to try out diverse geographic settings and practice types before settling down.

VISTA Staffing Solutions began in Sugar House with one card table and three people, each with their own plastic lawn chair. Today, the three founders and their 160 colleagues have much to celebrate. VISTA, a leading provider of temporary physician staffing and permanent physician search services, has a new corporate office in downtown Salt Lake City, a 17th anniversary to commemorate, and bragging rights as the subject of a $41 million acquisition, effective January 3, 2007.

In urban and rural communities across the country, the realities of an intensifying physician shortage are significantly impacting access to quality patient care. Healthcare facilities of all sizes compete for the same limited supply of qualified physicians, putting a great deal of pressure on recruitment departments. Therus C. Kolff, MD, MPH, is founder of the locum tenens, or temporary physician, industry and chairman of the board for VISTA Staffing Solutions, discussed these challenges recently with hospital CEOs as a featured speaker at Community Health Systems' 2006 Physician Recruiting Seminar, May 25 and 26, in Cool Springs, TN. He reported that locum tenens staffing firms are poised to fill the gap and offer a viable and cost-effective solution to communities that are scrambling to meet the growing demand for physicians.

The State of Utah is proud to announce the finalists for the 2006 Utah Work/Life Awards. For the eighth consecutive year, the State will recognize and honor companies that are creating exceptional workplaces and businesses by effectively addressing employee work/life needs. This year, the awards will be presented to companies in three categories based on size: Micro, Medium and Large businesses. Micro businesses are companies with fewer than 50 employees, Medium businesses have 50 to 500 employees, and large companies have more than 500 people working for them.

According to the new division manager, Kurt Scott, VISTA is taking a distinctly different approach to physician recruitment by looking at the problem from a healthcare organization’s perspective. "We are providing a flexible range of search services, customized consulting and value-added tools that enhance the recruitment process," says Scott. "An organization can get exactly the services it needs when it needs them. One-size-fits-all simply doesn’t work in physician search."

VISTA Staffing Solutions (www.vistastaff.com) launched its newest temporary physician staffing unit on July 01, 2005 to meet the growing need for anatomical and clinical pathologists in healthcare facilities across the country. As one of the largest locum tenens, or temporary physician, staffing firms in the United States, VISTA now offers temporary placement opportunities in a wide variety of healthcare facilities for physicians who specialize in pathology.

VISTA Staffing Solutions (www.vistastaff.com), one of the largest temporary physician, or locum tenens, staffing firms in the United States, is the first to provide U. S. physicians with the opportunity to practice in both domestic and international assignments. VISTA recently launched its international division, and is placing physicians in medical facilities and community practices in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

VISTA Staffing Solutions (www.vistastaff.com), a leader in government physician staffing, brought three respected, former senior military medical leaders together to discuss medical staffing issues at the recent 2005 TRICARE Conference. The Honorable Dr. Enrique Mendez, Vice Admiral (Ret), former Assistant Secretary of Defense; Major General Dr. Harold M. Koenig (Ret), former Surgeon General; and Dr. Robert A. Buethe, former Acting Surgeon General, praised temporary physician staffing solutions like those provided by VISTA Staffing as an excellent means for providing continuity of quality medical care on the home-front while military physicians are serving the needs of U.S. armed forces worldwide.