The Texas Hospital Association endorsed Jackson Healthcare, the fourth-largest healthcare staffing firm in the U.S., as its exclusive vendor for temporary and permanent physician, nurse and allied health staffing under a new five-year agreement. Jackson Healthcare’s operating divisions already provide temporary and permanent staff to Texas hospitals, but the company reported it believes the endorsement will take their relationship with Texas hospitals to a new level. The Texas Hospital Association is the Austin-based leadership organization representing more than 85 percent of the state’s acute-care hospitals and health care systems. employ some 365,000 health care professionals statewide.

Engage PEO, a professional employer organization, announced a deal to provide services to ASIC and ASIC Management, a Five Guys restaurant franchisee in New York and Florida, for the franchisee’s approximately 300 workers at 13 locations. Five Guys is a hamburger chain that was founded in Washington DC.