Plexsum Staffing Solutions

• Rank: 12
• Headquarters: Station College, Pennsylvania
• Top staffing segment(s) served: Travel Nursing
• Final 2022 revenue: $16.8 million
• Final CAGR 2018 through 2022: 89.7%
• Website: plexsum.com

Plexsum Staffing Solutions is a quickly rising star in travel nursing and healthcare staffing. Based in State College, Pennsylvania, Plexsum stands out for many reasons, including its unique growth story, a business model steeped in compassion and a mission-driven desire to positively impact the industry.

Plexsum has enjoyed steady and remarkable growth since its founding in 2013. In the past four years, the organization has experienced a 300% increase in medical staffing and grown 500% in billable hours. Founder Eric Tallyen, who serves as strategic accounts manager, attributes success to excellent planning, strong branding and a commitment to care that his spouse and business partner, CEO Tina Tallyen, uses to navigate the company.

Eric Tallyen’s 26 years of military service and lessons of combat are the foundation for the three pillars upon which the company operates. The first pillar is based on the Army Warrior Ethos: “I will never accept defeat. I will never quit, and I will never leave a fallen comrade.” The second pillar of support is “the care and compassion that was ingrained as we provided care within our communities,” Eric Tallyen explains. The last pillar and main support is the day-to-day commitment to excellence that Tina Tallyen exhibits tending to all the components of building a brand.

Eric Tallyen originally envisioned Plexsum as offering US veterans a safe transition from military service to civilian work. Over the years, the vision expanded from caring for the country’s heroes to caring for the heroes on the front line of healthcare. After leaving service, Tallyen worked as a nurse, and the level of empathy and the sense of care he acquired from working in emergency rooms and other healthcare settings translates now to Plexsum’s value proposition.

Plexsum excels because diligent and astute business acumen is coupled with care for healthcare providers. As a fully bootstrapped, certified woman-owned business, Tina Tallyen leads its success by offering medical specialists competitive wages and benefits and best-in-class customer service. Additionally, by standing side-by-side with staff throughout the process, recruiters go above and beyond to support nurses and specialists at all stages. In return, Plexsum has achieved an 80% retention rate of nursing staff.

Business decisions at Plexsum are based on its compassionate way of viewing the world and embodied in the changes planned for its future. Plexsum is investing in fresh branding, a new website and the tools and systems that align with a technology-augmented people approach. The organization is committed to putting people first, and to that end, it is implementing technology that enables recruiters and staffing specialists to focus less on administrative tasks and more on forming and cultivating caring relationships with healthcare specialists.

In the years to come, Plexsum sets its sights on growth outside the Pennsylvania region, building a brand at the national level. In the face of the ever-increasing speed of change in the industry, Tina Tallyen remains steadfast in continuing to make people-driven decisions that expand her dream and improve the quality of life of those who have been called to a life of medicine.