Who We Are
Connecting Top Clinicians with Leading Healthcare
Organizations Nationwide
How We Serve the Healthcare Industry
We are the healthcare recruiters and professionals that build careers and businesses. Through deep market specialization and a unique approach to talent acquisition, GQR Healthcare provides an unparalleled and personalized experience across all medical specialties in nursing and allied health across the industry. We’re proud to provide life-changing matches for our clients and clinicians.
Our Four Core Divisions
Whether you’re looking for a traveling clinician role or something more permanent, GQR connects
you to meaningful healthcare work.
Temporary
Grow your healthcare career while expanding your horizons! Our travel clinicians find fulfilling, flexible assignments nationwide.
Permanent
Find your dream role with one of the top-rated healthcare facilities in the country.ss
Workforce
Solutions
GQR offers customizable and holistic solutions to deliver the highest quality candidates while increasing visibility, efficiency, transparency, and control over your healthcare workforce.
Preferred Strategic
Suppliers
GQR partners with Joint Commission accredited firms to ensure the highest quality clinicians and speed to delivery exceeds expectations. Connect with us to review possible partnership opportunities.
Our Commitment to Excellence
Are you an employer looking for traveling or permanent nurses or allied health professionals? We know you’re facing stiff competition, as demand and expectations for this field have spiked in recent years – a trend that’s only expected to continue. We would love to help you overcome your workforce challenges by providing world-class solutions, whether you’re a rural clinic, a national hospital network, or anywhere in between.
We’re a focused, high-growth healthcare recruiting team that SIA recognized as a Top 10 Growing Staffing Firms for three consecutive years, and we want nothing more than to leverage our network and experience to help you find quality talent when you need it most.
Meet the GQR Team
The GQR team is comprised of dedicated, passionate professionals that put their clients and candidates first. Learn more about the people helping drive your success below!
Heather Jennings
Head of Sales Strategy and Operations
Heather Jennings serves as Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for GQR Healthcare and is responsible for delivering strategic planning and execution to increase efficiency, profitability and scalability within the healthcare business. Heather brings 20 years of experience in sales leadership and healthcare staffing across various functions, including recruitment operations, marketing, account management and sales.
Ms. Jennings joined GQR Global Markets in 2020 and brings a strong background of blending cutting-edge technology solutions with strategic insight to implement performance improvement and operational excellence to her role. Heather was a key leader and innovator for Onward Healthcare, which was acquired by AMN Healthcare in 2015. She has a successful track record in driving and managing high performance, high-growth teams with an entrepreneurial lens and passion for continuous improvement.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Corporate Communications from James Madison University and is a certified kickboxing instructor. She resides in Connecticut with her husband, 2 children and German Shepherd / Black Lab mix rescue.
James Jeffs
Senior Vice President - Recruitment
James is an SVP within the travel nursing division and is based out of the NYC office.
He manages a team of recruitment consultants who are responsible for placing travel nurses and Allied Health Professionals with Level I and Level II Trauma rated facilities Nationwide.
James has 9 years contract/staffing recruitment experience. This experience began in the UK where he focused on Engineering/Construction professionals.
In 2019 James relocated from Manchester, England to Austin, Texas and began on his GQR journey within the healthcare sector. James is a key leader within the division, he is dedicated, accountable and maintains a positive outlook which allows him to influence those around him to be the best versions of themselves.
Tasha Louis-Jean
Executive Vice President, Credentialing
Tasha Louis-Jean leads the Credentialing and Clinical departments and oversees Joint Commission compliance
She Responsible for training and developing credentialing team. Equipping both teams to respond quickly and knowledgeably to the needs of our sales team, clinicians and clients
22 Years of Healthcare staffing experience in Nursing, Allied, and Locums
Prior to joining GQR, Tasha served in several healthcare management roles, overseeing teams as large as 25 credentialing specialists and support staff.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Florida Atlantic University
In her free time, Tasha enjoys traveling with her husband of 25 years. They have been to Paris, Florence, Venice, Rome, Madrid, British Virgin Islands and most of the Caribbean.
Alexis Kennedy
Associate Director – Division Head
Alexis Kennedy leads HealthCare's Account Management Division and Travel Allied Division out of the Austin, TX office. She is responsible for managing, developing, and scaling both the AM and TA divisions. She also assists in strategy and operation of the entire divisions focus and future goal.
Alexis has 8+ years of healthcare staffing experience in account management, permanent, PRN, travel, and rapid response healthcare recruitment. She also has over 3 years of leadership background, leading teams as large as 40.
In her free team, Alexis enjoys traveling to new places around the world with her fiancé.
Matthew Thornett
SVP
Matthew is a Senior Vice President of Permanent Healthcare, operating out of the NYC office.
Matthew has worked as a recruiter for over 14 years, beginning his career in the Engineering and Construction space and moving across to Healthcare in 2020.
Matthew specializes in Registered Nursing Recruitment in an acute care setting, assisting Trauma Level 1-3 facilities fulfill their direct hire needs Nationwide. In 2021, Matthew became a true leader of the Permanent Healthcare space at GQR and began helping the build of the Permanent division by hiring and developing some of the recruiters within his team.
In 2020, Matthew relocated from Australia to NYC and began his adventure with GQR in the Healthcare space. He has a passion to empower and influence people around him to be the best they can be, and develop those that are eager to learn and aspire to be exceptional within recruitment.
Lori Taggart
Vice President - Travel Allied
Lori Taggart is a Vice President with our Allied Healthcare Division. Lori has 15 years of recruitment and staffing experience and has specialized the past 12 years of her career in Nursing and Allied Health.
Recruiting is a passion for Ms. Taggart and she excels in coaching, mentoring, developing and helping her team achieve their goals. Lori is a compassionate leader and consistent top performer who leads by example while also focusing on how she can continuously improve her own skill set and make a larger impact. Lori has championed Paid Volunteer Time Off for GQR by helping bring awareness to charities and giving back to our internal team members.
Lori resides in New Hampshire and loves to travel with friends and family. She has been to 45 states, two US Territories, and nine countries. Lori is also a mom to two charismatic boys and a huge fan of Boston sports, especially the New England Patriots!"
Jamie Park
Executive Vice President – Business Development
Jamie is an Executive Vice President on the Business Development team, overseeing the Northeast region, operating out of Austin, TX.
Jamie’s primary role is to create long term partnerships with health systems and state agencies, supporting acute care, behavioral health, and post-acute care settings. She provides bespoke solutions and consults her clients to deliver high quality RNs, Allied Health Professionals, and Locums in quick turnaround time.
Jamie has a proven track record with 6+ years of experience in business development, building and managing client relationships, account management and recruitment.
Graduate of UC Berkeley with Bachelor’s in Economics, Jamie grew up in San Clemente, CA and currently lives in Austin, TX. She loves to ski, watch football, travel, and try new restaurants.
Lily Kholina
Senior Vice President – Account Management
Lily Kholina is a Senior Vice President within Healthcare, overseeing the West Coast region, operating out of Los Angeles.
As an Account Manager, Lily partners and supports Hospitals with their staffing needs across the Registered Nurse and Allied space. She has over 7 years of experience in the industry and a proven track record in recruiting, business development and now account management.
Lily prides herself on building long-lasting relationships with her clients, understanding their pain points and providing solutions. She is passionate and committed to supporting hospitals across the West Coast to deliver quality patient care.
Los Angeles has been home to Lily for the last 20 years, where she spends time with her family and friends. Lily loves traveling and tries to visit a new country every year, where she enjoys exploring new cultures and cuisine.
Andy Tropin
Senior Vice President - Business Development
Andy Tropin is a Senior Vice President who provides significant client impact to hospitals and other healthcare facilities by offering innovative solutions and pragmatic strategies to deliver the best RNs and allied health professionals available. He and his team partner with acute, behavioral, and post-acute facilities across the Southern U.S. to provide support and holistic workforce management, encompassing both permanent and temporary healthcare staff.
Andy brings specialized expertise in recruiting, client services, and account management. He has a strong track record partnering with healthcare systems and state-operated facilities to provide the staff necessary to deliver the highest level of quality care at the scale and timeline needed.
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he is based out of Austin, TX, and is originally from Miami, FL. In his free time, Andy enjoys exploring the outdoors with his wife and their dog.
Josh Redland
Executive Vice President - Business Development
Josh Redland is an Executive Vice President within Healthcare, operating out of the Los Angeles office.
He works across the Healthcare market on a national basis, with a focus on supporting the nursing sector within Hospitals, Health Systems and Medical Groups.
With almost 20 years of healthcare staffing experience, he has a proven track record of supporting clients with their targeted and strategic growth plans. With a focus on mapping sectors and understanding the opportunity available, Josh has become a trusted advisor to healthcare organizations big and small.
Josh’s passion for the healthcare sector stems from his desire to drive better care and patient experience.
Originally from London, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where they are enjoying all that the west coast has to offer. An avid soccer fan, Josh has been a season ticket holder at Tottenham Hotspur for over 20 years and has loved coaching grassroots soccer for a number of years.
Mary Anderson
Executive Vice President – Account Management
Mary is an Executive Vice President within Account Management, overseeing the Northeast region, operating remotely from Washington DC.
Mary has a proven track record with years of experience in account management, business development, recruiting and leadership in the staffing industry. Her primary focus is within the Travel RN and Allied Health sector, on account management and delivery to large health systems, rapid response and emergency contracts.
She graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor’s in Supply Chain Management and a concentration in Information Systems. Mary is a Minnesota native, and has lived in London, Sydney and Los Angeles prior to recently relocating to Washington DC.
Mary is adventurous, ambitious and hardworking, as she instills some of GQR’s core values. She translates these values into her passion for working out, specifically at Barry’s Bootcamp, running marathons around the country, and snowboarding down double black diamonds in her free time.
Susan Fiore
Vice President, Onboarding & Contracts
Susan Fiore is a Vice President within Mission Control operating out of the Austin, TX office.
She has 10 plus years in Human Resources and specializes in Onboarding and Benefits. She manages a team of 10 and is responsible for Onboarding and our Contracts process. She works with hundreds of Clinicians and ensures the onboarding process for every employee is as seamless as possible.
She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a minor in Business Management.
Susan enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Rachel Southworth
Senior Vice President – Account Management
Rachel Southworth is a Senior Vice President within our Account Management division responsible for servicing Healthcare clients in the Southeast region.
Rachel partners and supports Hospitals with their travel and permanent Healthcare staffing needs. She has over 10 years of experience in the Healthcare staffing industry in recruitment, sales, leadership and account management.
Rachel’s clients provide feedback that her market leading industry knowledge is a differentiator in being able to deliver a higher caliber of nurse or allied professional. Ms. Southworth truly understands what her clients are looking for and she is often referred to as the “go to” for the hard to fill Healthcare specialties and niche roles. She is highly dependable and responds quickly while also providing a personalized approach which leads to long-lasting client relationships.
Rachel is a native to Maine and has migrated south over the past 15 years living in Virginia and now currently Florida. Rachel is an accomplished ballroom dancer and enjoys cooking, kayaking, camping and spending time with her Pitbull mix Jack and her black cat Nero.
Our Core Values
Our core values are the life blood of our business. They inform everything we do and are embedded deeply into our DNA. These five characteristics are fundamental to our people and their success, and more importantly, to the success of our clients and candidates.
People
We are diverse as a group of people, and we all have a lot in common. We are surrounded by ambitious people who are destined for big things. People who are bold and audacious and who are determined to achieve for themselves and their families.
Environment
Our careers in GQR Healthcare are a journey that we want to remember. We want to be surrounded in our environment by people that we respect, who respect us, who are focused on the mission, and enjoy the journey. We also tackle stimulating work in leading edge environments, in an organization we can be proud of.
Growth
We focus on continuous growth as an organization, growing our experience, growing our knowledge and our careers. Our growth has come from the fact that we are the best in our field and consistently achieve excellence within the role we serve.
Opportunity
The opportunities available to us on our platform are like no other in the industry, and we recognize all of our colleagues, healthcare professionals and clients have a choice to work with GQR. You have agency to choose where you work and the path you choose to shape yours and your family’s future. Together we know that we didn’t come this far to only come this far, and we believe that our future will be brighter than our past if we choose the right path and maximize the opportunities presented to us.
Impact
We want our careers to have a lasting impact in many ways. On our lives and our families’ lives, on the lives of the candidates whose lives we change, on our clients’ valuable work, and on our communities. We make an impactful contribution to the world around us, bringing our ideas and creativity to life, and creating positive patient outcomes with one of the fastest growing and highest performing organizations in our industry.
Our Core Values
Our core values are the life blood of our business. They inform everything we do and are embedded deeply into our DNA. These five characteristics are fundamental to our people and their success, and more importantly, to the success of our clients and candidates.
People
We are diverse as a group of people, and we all have a lot in common. We are surrounded by ambitious people who are destined for big things. People who are bold and audacious and who are determined to achieve for themselves and their families.
Environment
Our careers in GQR Healthcare are a journey that we want to remember. We want to be surrounded in our environment by people that we respect, who respect us, who are focused on the mission, and enjoy the journey. We also tackle stimulating work in leading edge environments, in an organization we can be proud of.
Growth
We focus on continuous growth as an organization, growing our experience, growing our knowledge and our careers. Our growth has come from the fact that we are the best in our field and consistently achieve excellence within the role we serve.
Opportunity
The opportunities available to us on our platform are like no other in the industry, and we recognize all of our colleagues, healthcare professionals and clients have a choice to work with GQR. You have agency to choose where you work and the path you choose to shape yours and your family’s future. Together we know that we didn’t come this far to only come this far, and we believe that our future will be brighter than our past if we choose the right path and maximize the opportunities presented to us.
Impact
We want our careers to have a lasting impact in many ways. On our lives and our families’ lives, on the lives of the candidates whose lives we change, on our clients’ valuable work, and on our communities. We make an impactful contribution to the world around us, bringing our ideas and creativity to life, and creating positive patient outcomes with one of the fastest growing and highest performing organizations in our industry.
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GQR’s team is built upon experienced and passionate staffing leaders who have worked within the largest healthcare staffing firms in the country. See how our experience and network provide a competitive advantage, whether you’re looking for work or ideal candidates.