Academy Medical Services

Infobox_Company
company_name = Academy Medical Services
company_type = Private
foundation = 1977
location_city = Columbus, Ohio
location_country = USA
industry = Healthcare staffing
num_employees = 105 internal employees (2001), 15,000 external employees (2000)
homepage = http://www.academy-medical.com

Academy Medical Services is a Columbus, Ohio-based medical staffing and human resource service. Academy Medical Services is an operating division of Acloche LLC, a Ruch Family Corporation, and women-owned staffing service based in Columbus since 1968. Acloche LLC and Academy Medical Services employ over 15,000 annual associates and maintain a client base of over 1,600 accounts. [Showalter, Kathy, “Ruch team buys franchise, Olsten name now Acloche”, Business First-Columbus, November 24, 2000.] In 2001 Acloche made the list of Working Woman 500, an annual magazine ranking of the largest U.S. businesses owned by women, based on revenues, at No. 344 with $36 million in revenues and 105 internal employees. [Gebolys, Debbie, “Magazine’s annual list includes five area companies”, The Columbus Dispatch, June 13, 2001. Date retrieved, 9/2/2008.] In 2006 Smart Business reported Acloche LLC as the sixth-largest woman-owned business in Ohio. [Simmons, Kathy, "How Bobbie Ruch grows Acloche", Smart Business Columbus, March 2006.]

Academy Medical Services works with a variety of healthcare segments including Hospital and Ambulatory Facilities, Private Physician Practices and Universities, Trade Shows, Conventions and Clinics. Academy Medical Services places all types of nurses and medical assistants; allied health professionals including but not limited to phlebotomy, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and respiratory therapy; as well as radiology technicians. Academy Medical Services placements include per diem, long term, temporary-to-permanent, travel assignments, as well as direct to hire.

Academy Medical Services has been a Joint Commission Certified health care staffing service since June 2005 and received recertification in 2008. [ [http://www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchresults.aspx?nm=academy+medical+services&ddstatelist=OH&st_nm=OHIO&st=OH Joint Commission] ] Academy Medical Services is the only staffing service endorsed by the Columbus Medical Association. [ [http://www.cmaf-ohio.org/cma/members_benefits.html Columbus Medical Association] ]

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