Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. has been in operation since 1984 providing nurses, respiratory therapists and surgical technologists for staff relief and supplementation in hospitals, clinics, industries and nursing homes. Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. has the demonstrated capability to provide healthcare facilities with properly trained, screened and insured medical personnel for general, specialty, or intensive care units.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. provides nurses, respiratory therapists and surgical technologists for per diem shifts.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. also provides long term and short term contracts. This gives the hospital the continuity of having the same personnel during the contract term.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. contains a full service Travel Division currently placing nurses, respiratory therapists and surgical technologists on eight to thirteen week assignments.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. is available to assist the facility during State and JCAHO surveys and will furnish necessary information on all medical personnel. We are also in compliance with OSHA Standards CFR 1910:1030 (HBV series or declination).

All nurses, respiratory therapists and surgical technologists that work for Advantage Nursing Services are employees. All necessary Social Security taxes (FICA), federal unemployment taxes (FUTA) and State Unemployment taxes (SUTA) are withheld. All our personnel are covered by liability insurance, workman’s compensation and are bonded.

Our primary concern is providing hospitals with highly qualified professionals to achieve excellence in patient care for general and special floor duty. Our staff is on duty in the office 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Our Registered Nurse Administrator is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. agrees to adhere to the mandates dictated by Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and all requirements imposed by or pursuant to the regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American with Disabilities Act and Civil Rights Act of 1992 and as directed by Executive Order EWE 92-7. Contractor agrees that he/she will not discriminate in the rendering of services to individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, handicap, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other non-merit factor.

Contractor further agrees that no person shall, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, handicap, veteran status, sexual orientation or any non-merit factor, be discriminated against in any employment practice.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. is privately owned and managed. Fifty percent of the corporation is owned by a female, and the other fifty percent by a male.

Advantage Nursing Services, Inc. has offices located in New Orleans, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, & Shreveport, Louisiana; Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, Texas;l and Gulfport, Mississippi.