Though they both work in the Salt Lake office now (and have each been here for 14 years), mom and daughter Jackie Smith and Jenn Hansen started their road to CHG in a very unique way. “I was a client who, while attending the 1997 CompHealth Symposium, jokingly suggested my host should offer me a job at CompHealth. He did -- and the fun began,” Jackie, CompHealth locum tenens director, recalls.

CompHealth permanent placement, RN Network and Weatherby Healthcare were recognized as part of the South Florida Business Journal’s 2012 Best Places to Work list at an awards luncheon Feb. 23. Weatherby Healthcare ranked No. 2 in the large-size category, while RN Network ranked No. 3 and CompHealth permanent placement ranked No. 9 in the medium-size category.

CompHealth and Weatherby Healthcare were included on Inavero’s 2012 Best of Staffing list in both client and talent categories! This award program recognizes staffing firms that receive great reviews from their clients and talent (in our case, healthcare providers we place in jobs) through an annual online survey.

Weatherby Healthcare employees in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently supported students at Independence High School, which serves special needs students aged 11-22, by purchasing their handmade jewelry. Robert Jones, sales training manager at Weatherby Healthcare, shared the following email and photo he received from the school.

Steve and Josh Keiser have enjoyed hanging out and riding motorcycles together for years – and, since September 2011, they’ve enjoyed working together in the IT department in Salt Lake City.​ “It’s good to see Josh every day,” Steve, senior software engineer, shares. “It’s fun for me to see how good he is at his job. Yeah, I’m a proud dad.”

For Jared and Becka Belcher, a husband and wife who both work at the Salt Lake City office, carpooling is the best part of working with family. “We currently live in Lehi (about 30 minutes away from the office), and being able to drive one car versus two saves us a lot of money,” Becka shares.

Family has always been important to Jai Lebo and Jessie Smith, siblings who both work in the Salt Lake City office. "I love knowing that Jai is just a short elevator ride away," Jessie, an administrative assistant on the CompHealth locum tenens medical staff services team, says.​

Most people probably wouldn't credit a hibachi steakhouse with landing them new jobs, but that's just what happened to Luke and Kim Reischel, who both work at Weatherby Healthcare in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "When Kim and I first relocated to Florida from Raleigh, N.C., eight years ago, we were seated at a table [in a hibachi steakhouse] with about six or seven women from CHG," Luke recalls.

Despite being the only children in their family, Nicole Shields and Natalie Petersen weren't always close -- but they cherish the time they now have to work together on the hospitalist team in Salt Lake City.

Erik Turner says it was luck that brought him to Weatherby Healthcare nine years ago after leaving the IT staffing industry, but it was hardly luck that his wife, Misty, joined RN Network [later moving to Weatherby Healthcare] two years later due to her experience in healthcare staffing.

Mother-daughter duo Barb Shillingford and Sarah Ehin have always been close, Sarah says, but now that they're working "under the same roof" in the Salt Lake office, they've grown closer.

All it took was one date for Jeff O'Rawe and Kristine Hlavacka-O'Rawe to become inseparable, Jeff says -- and now their work in the Weatherby Healthcare office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., allows them to be inseparable, too.

Sisters Jayne Crosby and Tina Hender are lucky enough to see each other five days a week: They both work on the CHG accounts receivable team in the Salt Lake City office.

Sisters Cynthia Martin and Diane Martin live together, carpool each day to the Salt Lake office and are always hard at work -- but they still find time to spend with their niece, Tess Kooring, who joined CHG nine months ago. All three now work in the CompHealth locum tenens division.

Driving to and from work at the Salt Lake office is one of Tina Clegg's favorite parts of the day because she shares it with her son, TC Macfarlane. "TC and I both like to laugh, and he likes to tease me, so more often than not we find ourselves laughing about the most ridiculous things," Tina shares.