Last week, Colleen Mills of the National Healthcare Staffing Alliance and Bob Livonius of AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS) both submitted posts to The Staffing Stream about MSPs in healthcare staffing. Now Sherry Weier, corporate vice president, strategic accounts, and executive consultant at AMN Healthcare, weighs in and argues that every successful business model depends on providing value to its customers. To read Weier's post, click here.

The discussion and level of emotion that currently surrounds VMS and MSP programs in healthcare staffing is similar to what took place nearly a decade ago when such programs were introduced, first in the IT staffing industry and then in commercial staffing, says Staffing Industry Analysts’ President Barry Asin. He discusses the subject in a new post in The Contingent Blog. For the blog, click here.