Utica health-care staffing firm acquired by Texas company

UTICA, N.Y. — Utica–based Fortus Healthcare Resources — which specializes in the direct and travel placement of health-care professionals with an emphasis on nursing — is under new ownership.

Job.com says it has acquired the Utica company, as well as a second staffing firm headquartered in Toledo, Ohio.

The Austin, Texas–based Job.com describes itself as a data-driven, artificial-intelligence-powered recruitment platform. Its news release didn’t include any financial terms of its acquisition agreement with Fortus Healthcare Resources.

Besides Fortus, Job.com also acquired Endevis. It offers permanent recruitment services, contract staffing, and recruitment-process outsourcing to clients in the automotive, commercial, and manufacturing sectors.

Founded in 1993, Fortus serves hospitals and other health-care facilities throughout the U.S., providing nurses and other medical professionals on a contract and permanent basis. It currently employs more than 200 nurses on contract and a team of over 40 recruiters.

“Our team has worked tirelessly to grow Fortus to where it is today, a market leader in the provision of traveling nurses, with a specialty in the ever-growing dialysis sector,” Mike Maurizio founder and CEO of Fortus, said in a release. “We have done very well but have always been conscious that there was an even bigger opportunity if we could find a way of accessing more talent to fill the vast number of job roles our clients have open at any time. We believe we have found the perfect partner in Job.com. They have the technology we need to access more suitably qualified candidates quickly and to improve communication between our clients, employees, and nurses. Fortus has grown significantly over the past three years, and I fully expect this growth to accelerate exponentially now that we are part of Job.com.”

Together, the two businesses add more than $50 million of annual revenue to Job.com. The acquisitions are part of Job.com’s plan to develop its revenue and reach by acquiring businesses that are already successful and profitable “but have the potential to grow quickly and more intelligently” through the application of Job.com’s proprietary technology, it said in the release.