Healthcare staffing agencies: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank healthcare staffing agencies by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Healthcare staffing agencies helping providers fill nursing, allied health, locum, and hard-to-staff clinical workforce gaps. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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When AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions about healthcare staffing agencies, AMN Healthcare comes up most often, earning 12.5% of all visibility across the brands tracked here. Aya Healthcare and Travel Nurse Across America round out the top three, appearing consistently across multiple AI platforms when buyers search for travel nursing, per-diem staffing, and allied health placements.
The sources AI engines cite most heavily for this category include talentmsh.com, entechmedicalstaffing.com, tagmedstaffing.com, aag.health, and pin.com. These are a mix of niche staffing directories and smaller industry reference sites rather than major mainstream review aggregators. That means AI rankings here reflect topical authority on staffing-specific content more than broad consumer review volume, which shifts weight toward brands with detailed, indexed specialty content.
For a buyer using this list, the most useful signal is whether a brand has strong third-party validation in staffing-specific directories and review sources, not just a polished website. Brands that appear in multiple specialty directories and carry recent, verified placements in your specific role type (travel nursing, allied health, locum tenens) will be better represented in AI answers and are more likely to have the active recruiter networks you actually need.
At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
The top four brands in this category, AMN Healthcare, Aya Healthcare, Travel Nurse Across America, and LocumTenens.com, each hold identical composite scores of 12.5, meaning no single brand has pulled ahead in AI visibility. The category average visibility sits at just 2.5%, so these four brands sit five times above that average. The remaining 16 brands drag the average down sharply, with six brands scoring zero composite points, indicating a steep cliff rather than a gradual distribution of AI presence.
CompHealth presents the most striking divergence between visibility and citation in this dataset. It holds 0.0% visibility yet earns a 25.0% citation rate, the highest citation figure in the entire top-10. This means Google AI Mode references CompHealth as a source or authority without surfacing it prominently in responses, a pattern that separates being named in supporting content from being featured as a recommended brand. Host Healthcare and CHG Healthcare show the same pattern at a smaller scale, with 12.5% citation each against zero visibility.
Google AI Mode is the top engine for every brand in this dataset, indicating the audit is essentially a single-engine snapshot. The cited sources list is dominated by smaller or niche domains such as talentmsh.com, entechmedicalstaffing.com, tagmedstaffing.com, and aag.health, rather than the large staffing brand domains themselves. The presence of facebook.com in that cited-sources list suggests AI Mode is drawing on social or community content to inform its healthcare staffing responses alongside specialist directories.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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AMN Healthcare 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #1+12pp
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Aya Healthcare 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #2+12pp
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Travel Nurse Across America 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #3+12pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
amnhealthcare.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
AMN Healthcare shares the top composite score of 12.5 with three peers, sitting five times above the 2.5% category average visibility, with no differentiation from ranks 2 to 4. |
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| 2 |
ayahealthcare.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Aya Healthcare matches AMN Healthcare exactly at 12.5% visibility and 12.5% citation, making it statistically tied for first with no measurable AI Mode advantage over the group. |
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| 3 |
tnaa.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Travel Nurse Across America holds a 12.5% composite score, the same as ranks 1 and 2, and like them rose from 0.0% visibility in the previous period to reach that score. |
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| 4 |
locumtenens.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
LocumTenens.com ties at 12.5% composite with the three brands above it, with no previous-period data shown, suggesting its riser status was not recorded in the biggest-movers list. |
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| 5 |
comphealth.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
CompHealth is the only brand with a citation rate (25.0%) that exceeds its visibility (0.0%), making it the most cited but least prominently featured brand in the top five. |
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| 6 |
hosthealthcare.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
chghealthcare.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
crosscountryhealthcare.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
jacksonhealthcare.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
medicalsolutions.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
favoritehealthcarestaffing.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
maximhealthcare.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
weatherbyhealthcare.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
integritylocums.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
healthcarousel.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
adexmedicalstaffing.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
healthcareaustralia.com.au
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
austcorpexecutive.com.au
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
skilledmedical.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
medacs.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on healthcare staffing agencies, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →
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Frequently asked about healthcare staffing agencies AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in healthcare staffing agencies?
AMN Healthcare, Aya Healthcare, Travel Nurse Across America, and LocumTenens.com are tied at the top with identical composite scores of 12.5, and no single brand holds a measurable lead over the others.
How does the category average compare to the leading brands?
The category average visibility is 2.5%, meaning the four tied leaders each sit five times above the average, while six of the top-10 brands score zero across both visibility and citation.
Which brand has the biggest gap between citation and visibility?
CompHealth has the widest divergence, holding a 25.0% citation rate against 0.0% visibility, the highest citation figure in the dataset but no direct AI Mode feature presence.
What sources does Google AI Mode anchor on for healthcare staffing research?
The top cited sources include smaller specialist domains such as talentmsh.com, entechmedicalstaffing.com, tagmedstaffing.com, and aag.health, alongside facebook.com, rather than the large staffing brand sites directly.
Which brands are new entrants to AI visibility this period?
AMN Healthcare, Aya Healthcare, and Travel Nurse Across America all moved from 0.0% to 12.5% visibility in the current period, making them the three biggest risers recorded in the audit.
Is AI visibility in this category concentrated or broadly distributed?
Visibility is highly concentrated, with four brands holding all measurable visibility share at 12.5% each, while the remaining brands in the top-10 register zero visibility and zero citation in several cases.