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Aya Healthcare Named to San Diego Union-Tribune’s Top Workplaces for 2021
Aya Healthcare, a data-driven market leader in healthcare staffing, has been awarded a Top Workplaces honor by The San Diego Union-Tribune, for the eighth consecutive year. This year, Aya ranked second in the large company category. The Top Workplaces list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous… Read More
Aya Healthcare Named to Fortune’s 2021 list of Best Workplaces for Women
Aya Healthcare, the nation’s leading healthcare staffing agency, was named to Fortune’s Best Workplaces for Women list for the second consecutive year. The 2021 Best Workplaces for Women award is based on analysis of survey responses from more than 5.6 million current U.S. employees. In that survey, 90% of… Read More
Report: COVID-19 is Driving Major Shifts in Nursing, Exacerbating Shortage
Aya Healthcare, the nation’s leading healthcare staffing agency, today released a new IRB-reviewed research study that finds the physical and emotional traumas of COVID-19 are driving nurses to leave bedside nursing or the profession altogether. The report, “Mind the Gap: Repairing the U.S. Healthcare Workforce,”… Read More
Aya Healthcare Announces Agreement to Acquire Vizient Contract Labor Management; Launches Vaya Workforce Solutions
Aya Healthcare, the leading workforce solutions provider in the country, announces a definitive agreement to acquire Vizient’s Contract Labor Management (CLM) business unit and transition it to Vaya Workforce Solutions (Vaya), a new subsidiary of Aya. Vaya intends to maintain operations as a Vizient-endorsed, vendor-neutral workforce solutions provider covering whole-house… Read More
Aya Healthcare’s Qualivis to Acquire the New Mexico Hospital Association’s Temporary Staffing Division
Qualivis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aya Healthcare, announced a definite agreement to acquire the temporary staffing division of New Mexico Hospital Association’s (NMHA) Hospital Services Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close on June 1, 2021. “As hospitals faced workforce challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re thrilled to join… Read More
Aya Healthcare Promotes April Hansen to Group President, Workforce Solutions
Aya Healthcare, a data-driven, market leader in healthcare staffing, announces the promotion of April Hansen, MSN, RN, to Group President, Workforce Solutions. In this role, Hansen oversees workforce solutions strategies across all brands, including strategic business development, program management, client services, recruitment process outsourcing and clinical services. “April combines an entrepreneurial… Read More
Aya Healthcare Launches Bespoke MSP Business Unit, Acquires Dawson Healthcare
Aya Healthcare announced a definitive agreement to acquire Dawson Healthcare, Dawson’s managed services division (MSP). Dawson Healthcare will maintain independent operations as a whole-house workforce solutions provider but gain the resources of the largest provider of contingent healthcare clinicians in the country. Dawson will continue to provide workforce solutions for… Read More
CNN: Travel Nurses Serving As a COVID-19 Rapid Deployment System
Tens of thousands of nurses have met the increasing demand caused by the pandemic by traveling and accepting short contracts at hospitals that need them most. CNN spoke to several Aya nurses who have traveled to some of the most vulnerable areas in the country. They reflected on their struggles,… Read More
Business insider: The Pandemic Made Travel Nurses the Frontline Heroes Fighting the Virus, But the Work Has Taken a Heavy Toll
Travel nurses have been in high demand all across the US while COVID-19 cases surged through the end of 2020 into January this year. Business Insider spoke with Aya Healthcare president Alan Braynin about the demand, and Aya travel nurse Taylor Dilick on why she wanted to be on the… Read More
Aya Healthcare Surprises Two Travel Nurses with Super Bowl LV Tickets
Aya Healthcare, the healthcare staffing company with the most clinicians fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, surprised two of its travel nurses with tickets to Super Bowl LV through the NFL’s vaccinated healthcare worker program. Out of Aya’s 19,000 dedicated travel clinicians working on the frontlines in the hardest-hit… Read More
Aya Healthcare’s Qualivis To Acquire the Chesapeake Registry Program
Qualivis, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aya Healthcare, announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Chesapeake Registry Program, a division of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA). The acquisition is expected to close on March 1, 2021. “COVID-19 has made staffing needs increasingly urgent and critical to expand capacity,” said Meghan… Read More
Mayor Todd Gloria Proclaims February 1 “Travel Nurse Day” in San Diego
Aya Healthcare, the digitally driven healthcare staffing company with the most clinicians fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, is proud to announce that February 1, 2021 is “Travel Nurse Day” in the City of San Diego. Todd Gloria, the city’s 37th mayor, issued the proclamation recognizing Aya Healthcare and… Read More