Travel Nurse Leader Sagent Healthstaff Supports Programs to Close the Nurse Supply Gap

Travel Nurse Leading Agency Welcomes Hospital-University Partnership in California

FOR CONTACT:

Karin Laping, Vice President of Marketing

Sagent Healthstaff LLC

36 Washington Street, Suite 170

Wellesley, MA, 02481

877-447-3376, 781-419-0700, Fax 781-419-0701

klaping@sagenths.com

www.sagenths.com

Waltham, Massachusetts, November 28, 2006 -- Sagent Healthstaff, the nation's premiere travel nurse staffing company since 2001, supports the new ideas to answer the acute need for more traveling nurses and RNs, and meet America's healthcare staffing needs.

The travel nurse agency offers many spectacular residences for its travel nurses as well as great pay and benefits, opportunities to gain valuable professional experience, and a selection of choice assignments in a long list of medical facilities.

"One of the many programs we like is the partnership established between Riverside Community Hospital in California and Cal State San Bernardino," said Karin Laping, Marketing Manager for Sagent Healthstaff.

Riverside Community Hospital in California came up with an innovative program to find the nurses that it so desperately needs: helping the local Cal State San Bernardino college graduate more well-trained nurses ready for work

The hospital helps finance the college's nursing program in return for a 3-year commitment by the graduating nurses to work at the hospital. It's a win-win-win formula that satisfies the needs of the hospital, the students, and the patients all alike.

The hospital has already pitched in $135,000 to upgrade college's nursing lab facilities.

The program will graduate its first batch of 40 nurses in 2007.

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