Itemize the money
Every clinician package and every client rate is broken out line by line. What it costs us: we cannot hide margin in a blended rate, so we compete on service instead.
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Staffing is a promise-keeping business
Blue Water Staffing was built on a simple observation: almost every complaint about healthcare staffing — from hospitals and clinicians alike — is a complaint about a promise that was made and not kept. So we made fewer of them, wrote them down, and staffed the desk to keep them.
Who we are
A national staffing partner with a regional memory
We place registered nurses, advanced practice providers, allied health professionals, and clinical leaders nationwide — across travel contracts, permanent search, per diem pools, and employer-sponsored international pipelines. We also run managed service programs and the VMS technology underneath them for health systems that need one accountable partner instead of fourteen.
What we are not is a lead-routing operation. Recruiters sit on regional desks and keep their clinicians across assignments. Client executives are assigned by name and stay assigned. When something goes wrong, the person who picks up already knows your account.
Any stateLicensed for your contract
2018Placing clinicians since
EveryService line under one contract
Same dayUrgent requests answered
How we operate
Five principles we will be held to
These are not values-statement decoration. Each one has an operational consequence, and each one costs us money in a specific, predictable way.
Recommend the cheaper channel
If PRN solves it, we will not sell you a travel contract. If you do not have the volume for an MSP, we will say so. What it costs us: revenue we could have booked.
Never charge a clinician
No fees for placement, processing, exams, travel, or immigration — domestic or international. What it costs us: the entire revenue model some competitors run on.
Publish the bad numbers too
Quarterly business reviews report missed SLAs and failed placements alongside the wins. What it costs us: uncomfortable meetings we could have avoided.
Own the escalation
A documented escalation ladder with names and response times, not a support queue. What it costs us: a fully staffed overnight desk that mostly sits quiet.
Hold us to them
If we fall short of any of these on your account, escalate it and reference this page. It is the fastest way to get a director's attention.
Contact leadership
Compliance & credentialing
What we verify before anyone reports for a shift
Credentialing is the part of staffing nobody markets and everybody is judged on during survey. Ours is built to Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services standards and documented for audit.
Clinician verification
- Primary source verification of licensure in every state of practice
- Certification verification direct from the issuing body (AHA, ARRT, ASCP, NBCRNA, NCCPA)
- OIG, SAM, and state exclusion list screening at onboarding and monthly thereafter
- Criminal background check, sanctions screening, and drug screening to facility policy
- Immunization and titer records, annual TB, and current influenza documentation
- Specialty competency testing and skills checklists, refreshed annually
- Two supervisory references from within the last 12 months
Program & corporate
- Operations aligned to Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services standards
- Professional and general liability coverage, certificates issued per client
- Workers' compensation in every state of operation
- E-Verify participation and I-9 compliance across all employment types
- Ethical international recruitment aligned to WHO global code principles
Certificates of insurance, credentialing policy documentation, and audit files are issued at onboarding, before the first shift — you should not have to ask for them. Anything further your risk or compliance office needs comes through your client executive.
Who you work with
The people attached to your account
Titles matter less than whether the same person answers next month. Every account and every clinician gets a named team that does not rotate on a quarterly cadence.
Client executive
Owns the relationship, the rate card, and the quarterly business review. Your escalation point of first resort.
Program coordinator
Day-to-day requisition management, submittal triage, interview scheduling, and extension tracking.
Credentialing specialist
Primary source verification, expiry tracking, and facility-specific onboarding requirements.
Regional recruiter
The clinician's single point of contact, across assignments and across years.
Immigration case manager
For international candidates: milestone tracking, document chasing, and monthly written progress reports.
Your recruiter, directly
Clinicians on assignment call their own recruiter for pay, housing, scheduling, and on-shift problems, not a call center.
Start with the hard requisition
Or the assignment you are nervous about taking. Those are the conversations that show whether any of this is real.