Anesthesia and surgical team working together in an operating room

Anesthesia · Logistics · Advocacy

The precision of a
top-tier medical device.
The warmth of a true partner.

We place board-certified anesthesiologists, CAAs, and CRNAs into critical assignments nationwide. We handle the logistics so the OR teams run efficiently.

I Need Coverage Find Locum Assignments

Scroll

The Standard

Excellence in coverage.
Intention in care.

An anesthesia care team conferring before a case

Clinical-Grade Trust

We only place board-certified professionals, with exceptional personalities — that seamlessly integrate into your team. Because we know, it's the people that matter, on both sides of the drape.

Urgent Precision

When a hospital chief calls at 11 PM needing a provider by Monday, we deliver. Fast, exacting response times without cutting corners on credentialing.

White-Glove Logistics

From cross-state licensing to malpractice, travel, and housing. We absorb the friction so our clinicians can focus entirely on patient care.

Why this exists

The locum agency relationship has been broken for too long.

Ask any working anesthesia clinician what their last agency relationship felt like. The answers rhyme. We built Core Anesthesia to be the one that doesn’t.

These are real complaints, from real clinicians, on the public record. We treated them as the design brief.

“I was promised a certain pay rate, only for them to change it after I started.”
On bait-and-switch contracts
“They submitted me to a hospital I'd never heard of. Now they 'own' me there for two years.”
On name-clearing without consent
“I got cut 35 days before the contract started. Not close enough to be paid for the canceled dates.”
On last-minute cancellations
“There was a $35,000 non-compete buyout buried in the contract. Nobody mentioned it on the call.”
On hidden contract terms
“The hospital presented an attached call room as my housing. For an eight-week assignment.”
On housing that's a punishment

How we’re different

Recruiters offer advice.
Contracts open doors.

Five commitments, each one engineered to reverse a documented failure of the legacy locum agency model. Each one written into the contract before either side signs. Each one auditable in your portal, every assignment, every time.

No name-clearing without your written sign-off.

Your CV doesn't move to a facility without your written consent — per facility, every time.

Kill fees come from us.

If a facility cancels inside 14 days of your start, we pay you. Not the next contract you turned down to take theirs.

Multi-state licensing held by Core.

Renewal calendar managed. Fees fronted. Document vault. Across every state you cover.

Occurrence malpractice with tail.

No silent liability accruing across assignments. Coverage follows the work — not the contract clock.

One human. Yours.

Same person from intake to last paycheck. Not a recruiter pool. Not a name you've never met.

A clinician and a nurse talking in a hospital corridor

For Facilities

Secure top-tier
anesthesia coverage, instantly.

Hospitals, surgery centers, and pain clinics across the US rely on Core Anesthesia Holdings when they cannot compromise on quality. We understand the cost of a delayed OR schedule.

Rapid response for short-term and long-term gaps.
Rigorous pre-screening and credentialing verification.
Seamless onboarding tailored to your facility's protocols.
Replacement guarantee if a placement falls through in the first week.

“Core Anesthesia delivered a phenomenal CRNA within 48 hours. They saved our surgical week.”

— Chief of Surgery, Chicago ASC

Request Coverage See what’s included

For Providers

Retain agency
over your skill set.
We will handle the rest.

Whether you’re looking for flexible short-term assignments or lucrative long-term contracts, Core Anesthesia Holdings offers unmatched support for Anesthesiologists, CAAs, and CRNAs.

Premium compensation and flexible scheduling.
Dedicated logistics team for travel, housing, and licensing.
Comprehensive A-rated malpractice coverage with tail included.
We will be your business mentor in this new practice model.

Explore Opportunities Read our promises

Board-certified anesthesia clinician — one of the providers Core Anesthesia places

The clinicians we place

White-Glove Support

The match is the easy part.

Matching a clinician to a case is straightforward. The friction is everywhere else — credentialing, licensing, malpractice, travel. Four pillars we hold so neither the clinician nor the facility has to.

Credentialing

Expedited verification and hospital privileging support to get you in the OR faster.

Licensing

Proactive management of cross-state medical licenses and renewals.

Travel & Housing

Premium accommodations and seamless flight logistics managed by our internal team.

Malpractice

Comprehensive, highly-rated medical malpractice insurance with tail coverage included.

Two anesthesia clinicians focused at the operating table

Our Story

Bridging clinical experience with the business of staffing.

Core Anesthesia was founded by anesthesia clinicians who had already lived inside the locum agency model. The hidden bill rates. The contracts “re-explained” once on site. The recruiters who went quiet the moment a problem hit. The housing presented as a punishment. The non-competes buried six pages deep. None of it was a surprise. None of it was acceptable.

So we built it ourselves — the agency we’d want to work with, and the one our colleagues deserve to be sent through. Every practice on this page exists because someone here watched it go wrong somewhere.

“The point isn’t to be a better agency. The point is to stop being one.”

A founding clinician

Built by clinicians, for the people in the OR.

Core Anesthesia Holdings was built by anesthesia clinicians who understand what a great placement actually requires — technical precision, the right personality at the table, and a logistics team that quietly makes the rest disappear.

We’re a perioperative-experienced partner first, a staffing operation second. Every facility we work with and every clinician we place benefits from that order of priority.

“A flawless placement requires more than a matching skillset — it requires the right partner alongside it.”