Jackson Healthcare Solutions is one of ‘Atlanta’s Best Places to Work’
ALPHARETTA, GA, September 28, 2005
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named Jackson Healthcare Solutions (JHS) one of “Atlanta’s 2005 Best Places to Work,” based on responses to an independent employee satisfaction survey. The healthcare staffing and technology company ranked ninth among 20 medium-size companies (101-749 employees), according to the weekly newspaper’s September 23-29, 2005 issue. (View top 10 chart)
Eleven large companies (750+ employees) and 20 small companies (10-100 employees) also made the list from among more than 200 companies applying.
“Our company is about improving healthcare in the U.S., from both people and technology perspectives,” Jackson Healthcare Solutions Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Jackson said. “We succeed by hiring and retaining talented, passionate people and giving them an environment where it’s OK to try new things and fail. Successful people see failure as a growth opportunity.”
Atlanta Business Chronicle honored ‘A+ Employer’ representatives with a breakfast at the Sheraton Atlanta on Friday, September 23, featuring Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as keynote speaker. Event sponsors included Business Wise, Inc.; Monster; Reznick Group; Robert Half International Inc., and UnumProvident.
Making the List
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s more than 180,000 readers and e-mail subscribers had to nominate their own or other companies during the month of June to qualify for the ‘A+ Employers’ competition.
From July 1 through August 1 employees of nominated companies answered an online opinion survey conducted by Quantum Market Research (QMR) of Wichita, Kansas (www.qmrinc.com). To reach a 95-percent confidence level with a margin of error of plus or minus five percent, participating company employees had to respond in numbers proportional to their local employee base—from 85% of employees in companies of 50 employees or fewer to five percent of employees in companies with 5,000 or more employees. Seventy percent of employees in companies with 151 to 500 employees, including JHS with approximately 260 associates, had to log on and complete the survey for their employers to make the list.
Respondents answered 38 questions covering 10 categories on a six-point scale from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.” JHS scored favorable ratings of 85% or higher in eight of the 10 categories, including trust with co-workers (92%), trust in senior leaders (88%), and alignment with company goals (88%).
Keeping Pace with Rapid Growth
"With roughly half of our business in healthcare professional staffing, we hire carefully and work hard to ensure associates enjoy their jobs and succeed in them,” Jackson said. “We retained 80 percent of our associates in 2004, something few staffing-related companies achieve. On the technology side, we retained 84 percent of our Surgical Information Systems (SIS) associates last year,” referring to the largest of three JHS healthcare information technology subsidiaries.
In addition to SIS, Jackson Healthcare Solutions operating entities include LocumTenens.com, Premier Anesthesia, StatCom, Jackson & Harris and Patient Placement Systems.
In highlighting JHS retention rates, Jackson noted the company’s rapid growth over the past five years, a trend which tends to make employee retention a bigger challenge.
Jackson Healthcare Solutions (JHS) doubled revenue between year-end 2002 ($50.2 million) and year-end 2004 ($100.4 million). The company added 97 associates between 2002 and 2004, growing to 230 associates by year-end 2004.
Based on 2003 revenues of $78 million, JHS was the largest Georgia company listed in Inc. magazine’s, 23rd annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest growing U.S. private companies. Jackson Healthcare Solutions was the sixth-largest healthcare company, and the only Atlanta-area healthcare firm, on the 2004 Inc. 500 list. The company serves more than three million patients in more than 1,000 hospitals across the United States each year.
Founded by healthcare pioneer Richard L. Jackson, Jackson Healthcare Solutions (JHS) addresses the two biggest challenges facing healthcare today: Finding the right people and delivering the right information at the right time.
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Contact: Billie Wickstrom
678-992-1247
wickstrom@locumtenens.com
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