CHG Healthcare

CHG Healthcare

CHG Healthcare operates as a physician and advanced practitioner staffing company focused on the locum tenens segment of the healthcare workforce. Founded in 1979 by Curtis Harmon and later acquired by private equity firm One Equity Partners in 2021, the firm provides temporary staffing solutions to over 3,000 healthcare facilities across the United States. The wealth of the firm's owners comes from private equity ownership structures, not a single family fortune. The company's core business involves recruiting and credentialing physicians and advanced practitioners for short-term assignments, covering specialties such as emergency medicine, hospitalist medicine, radiology, and surgery. CHG Healthcare also offers permanent placement services through its CompHealth division, as well as allied health staffing via Weatherby Healthcare. The firm's geographic reach spans all 50 states, with a particular concentration in rural and underserved areas where locum tenens demand is high. Known portfolio companies include CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare, and RNnetwork. CHG Healthcare employs roughly 3,500 staff, primarily in its Midvale headquarters and a secondary office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The firm operates a philanthropic arm, the CHG Foundation, which focuses on healthcare access and education in underserved communities. In 2023, the firm reported placing over 6,000 providers on assignments, a key operational metric that reflects its scale. A structural differentiator is CHG's model: as a locum tenens staffing firm, it acts as an intermediary between healthcare facilities and independent physicians rather than investing in direct care delivery. This positions it to benefit from healthcare labor shortages without assuming clinical risk, a structure that distinguishes it from traditional healthcare services firms.