Locum Tenens, VISTA Staffing Solutions

VISTA Staffing Solutions celebrates 20th year

VISTA Staffing Solutions opened its doors on March 5, 1990, as a locum tenens or temporary physician staffing company. In two decades of growth VISTA has expanded its services to include international placements for physicians in Australia, New Zealand, and Bermuda; year-long US placements; and permanent physician recruitment and consulting.

VISTA had seven corporate employees at the end of 1991, 100 employees by January 2004, and 198 in January 2010.

In 2007, VISTA was acquired by On Assignment, Inc., one of the largest healthcare, scientific, IT, and engineering staffing companies in the US. The proceeds from the sale of the company totaled $230 per share or 370 times the 1991 value. Thanks to an Employee Stock Ownership Program introduced when VISTA was founded, employees shared in the proceeds. This was always the goal, to give employees a real reason to think and act like owners, according to Mark S. Brouse, President.

VISTA's parent company shares the same dedication to their corporate employees, offering excellent benefits and opportunities for growth and advancement in offices across the US and Europe.

The locum tenens industry has grown just as steadily, and has an important role in the future of health care, according to Brouse. As we enter the economic recovery and retirement portfolios rebound, he challenges physicians to stay involved in patient care at least part time because the world needs every hour a qualified physician is willing to work. Locum tenens is a mechanism to facilitate that.