Streamline your workforce

Improve your care and operating models

We’ll help you build and retain a more resilient, capable workforce

Everyone benefits

  • At TMS Associates, our advisory-first approach ensures every recommendation aligns with your organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals. We don’t just fill positions—we help you close care and operating gaps by building a capable, stable workforce.

    For providers, we collaborate with your leadership to understand your challenges, aligning talent strategies to improve care and operational outcomes. This approach reduces turnover, stabilizes your team, and enhances performance.

    For practitioners, we offer strategic career guidance, helping you find positions where you can thrive, achieve your goals, and deliver better patient care.

    Our advisory-first model benefits providers and practitioners, fostering long-term success and improving the healthcare experience.

  • We focus on sourcing candidates who bring needed expertise and align with your organization’s culture and values.

    Our improved candidate targeting ensures we reach the suitable talent pools, finding individuals who fit your organization’s needs and long-term vision. Through empowerment over convincing, we guide candidates to consider roles based on genuine interest and alignment with their personal and professional goals. This intentional decision-making process, combined with more effective assessments that evaluate clinical and interpersonal skills, results in a workforce that is highly capable and fully committed to delivering better patient outcomes.

  • True stability comes from aligning the right people with the right roles, and our empowerment over convincing approach sets us apart.

    By empowering candidates to select roles that fit well-understood career aspirations rather than pushing them into positions that 'seem like a good fit,' we guide parties to more stable, fruitful outcomes. Our improved candidate targeting and more effective assessments further enhance this process by identifying individuals who are the best long-term fit for your organization. This intentional match between candidate and role leads to lower turnover and fosters a stable, cohesive workforce that maintains continuity in care delivery and supports operational efficiency.

  • At TMS Associates, our industry-leading performance guarantee sets us apart by offering unmatched assurance.

    Unlike the typical industry standard, our guarantee is not prorated and extends for a full 12 months—quadrupling the usual coverage period.

    We commit to the quality of our placements: if a placement does not meet your expectations within the first year, we will find a replacement at no additional cost. This comprehensive, year-long guarantee underscores our dedication to long-term success and operational excellence in your healthcare facility.

What to expect from TMS Associates:

Helpful talent advisory and healthcare talent that

Intrinsically or naturally aligns with your organization’s core values

Understands and desires the role while possessing the capabilities to perform it well

Our solutions

Bridge critical care and operating model gaps—enhance leadership

  • Our talent advisory service is designed to align your workforce strategy with your long-term goals. We assess your organization’s unique challenges and provide expert guidance to address leadership and staffing gaps, improve employee engagement, and create a more stable and capable workforce.

    By understanding both your operational needs and organizational culture, we ensure that your talent acquisition and retention strategies are optimized to deliver better care and operational performance.

  • Our retained search service offers a premium, high-touch approach to securing top-tier executive and clinical leadership talent. With a dedicated recruitment team focused exclusively on your search, we provide personalized, focused attention throughout the process. Our SLAs are designed to guarantee quality, transparency, and results, ensuring that your most critical roles are filled with the right leaders for long-term success.

    Key features of our retained search service include:

    • Dedicated Recruitment Team: A specialized team works exclusively on your search, providing personalized support and focused attention to ensure your organizational needs are met.

    • Defined Timeframe for Candidate Shortlist: We deliver a shortlist of highly qualified candidates within a specific timeframe—typically 4 to 8 weeks—depending on the complexity of the role.

    • Regular Progress Updates: You’ll receive regular updates on the search process, including candidate pipeline status, challenges, and any necessary strategic adjustments.

    • Thorough Candidate Vetting: We conduct comprehensive vetting, including background and reference checks, and assess candidates for cultural fit, leadership competencies, and technical qualifications to ensure a successful placement.

    • Replacement Guarantee: If a candidate leaves or is terminated within the first 12-18 months, we restart our search at no additional cost, minimizing your risk.

    • Exclusive Candidate Presentation: Candidates presented are exclusive to your search and not offered to other clients, ensuring undivided focus and confidentiality.

    • Diversity and Inclusion Commitment: Where needed, we prioritize delivering diverse candidates to help you build an inclusive leadership team that aligns with your organizational values.

    • Confidentiality Assurance: Our process ensures that all client and candidate information is handled with the utmost confidentiality and discretion.

    Our retained search approach guarantees the right hire and a robust and long-term fit, with added support for onboarding to ensure seamless integration into your organization.

  • For more flexible staffing needs, our contingent search service offers a results-driven approach.

    We source and present highly qualified candidates for clinical and operational roles, allowing you to fill urgent vacancies without the upfront costs of a retained search. You only pay when a successful placement is made, giving you a cost-effective solution for addressing immediate talent gaps while maintaining quality.

  • Our upcoming process improvement service is designed to streamline your operations and enhance your care delivery by optimizing internal workflows and resource utilization.

    From reducing inefficiencies in patient flow to improving staff utilization, we’ll offer strategic consulting to help you refine your operating model, improving both care outcomes and financial performance. This service will provide actionable insights to better manage length of stay (LOS), inpatient and outpatient utilization, and overall operational effectiveness.

OUR PARTNERS

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National Career Development Association (NCDA)

Hugging Face

Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

Anthropic

Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR)

LiveChat

American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

SquareSpace

ActiveCampaign • National Career Development Association (NCDA) • Hugging Face • Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) • Anthropic • Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) • LiveChat • American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) • SquareSpace •