AMN Promotes Beth Machado to President of Travel Nursing

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE: AHS), healthcare's largest staffing provider and workforce innovator, announced the promotion of Beth Machado to President of Travel Nursing.  In this role, she will be responsible for the strategy and performance of AMN's travel nursing recruitment and account management teams.  Additionally, Ms. Machado will oversee the international and electronic medical records (EMR) businesses, as well as Rapid Response, AMN's NurseChoice brand that supplies short-term travel nurses to fill critical staffing needs of healthcare facilities.

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"This newly-created role truly underscores the strategic importance of our travel nursing business.  By having a single executive leader oversee both the recruiting aspect and account management of our travel nursing business, we can provide a more integrated and holistic approach to each of our clients.  In doing so, we'll achieve greater efficiencies and economies of scale," explained Susan Salka, AMN's President and CEO.  "Having started as a nurse recruiter and leading several successful teams during her over 20-year tenure at AMN, Beth has been instrumental in growing our traveling nursing division into AMN's largest and most profitable business."

Key statistics about travel nursing:

• Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) recently ranked AMN Healthcare the 2012 largest healthcare staffing firm in the U.S., and #1 in Travel Nurse Staffing in the United States. 
• AMN provides registered nurses to nearly 6,500 hospitals, government facilities and other healthcare facilities across the United States.
• With a commitment to providing the highest quality clinicians, AMN's traveling nurses have, on average, 7-8 years of experience working in multiple facilities and settings, and 50% hold bachelor's degrees as compared to 38% of the general nursing population.

Ms. Machado most recently served as AMN's Senior Vice President of Recruitment, responsible for the nurse placement sales team that encompassed national and international travel nurse recruitment, placement and retention.  She also led the Pharmacy Staffing division.  Before joining AMN Healthcare in 1988, Machado worked in sales and marketing at UNICCO Service Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then as a national commodities broker for Multivest in La Jolla, California.  She holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. 

As President of Travel Nursing, Ms. Machado will continue to report directly to AMN's President of Healthcare Staffing Ralph Henderson.

About AMN Healthcare

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. is healthcare's workforce innovator, providing a broad spectrum of workforce solutions and staffing services to the nation's healthcare facilities. AMN's workforce solutions—including managed services programs, recruitment process outsourcing and consulting services—enable providers to successfully reduce complexity, increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes within the rapidly evolving healthcare environment. AMN provides unparalleled access to the largest network of clinically advanced healthcare professionals through its innovative recruitment strategies and breadth of career opportunities offered to clinicians. Clients include acute-care hospitals, government facilities, community health centers and clinics, physician practice groups and many other healthcare settings. For more information, visit http://www.amnhealthcare.com.

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