CompHealth

Summary

CompHealth is a physician and advanced-practice locum tenens staffing brand headquartered in the Salt Lake City area. It places temporary clinicians into hospitals and practices nationwide — assignments from a few days to a year — so facilities can cover vacancies, seasonal demand, and underserved markets (locum tenens page).

The company trades as part of CHG Healthcare: CompHealth's site footer reads "© CHG Management, Inc. CHG Healthcare Company" (locum tenens page). The SEC registrant CHG Healthcare Services, Inc. (CIK 0001356792, EIN 51-0319328) listed 4021 South 700 East, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah 84107 as headquarters in its March 2006 S-1 (S-1).

Impact

If locum tenens truly originated with this Utah company, it would mean a Salt Lake City firm helped define how rural American hospitals staff physician services when permanent hires are unavailable. That origination claim rests entirely on CompHealth's own marketing — "Since its creation in 1979 by CompHealth" and "We know the locums industry because we created it" (locum tenens page, why CompHealth).

The 2006 SEC registration statement does not make that claim. It says CHG is "one of the oldest and largest nationwide providers" of locum tenens, names predecessor Comprehensive Health Systems, Inc. as founded in 1979, and puts locum tenens at 51.2% of 2005 revenue through brands CompHealth and Weatherby Locums (S-1). "Oldest and largest" is not "first," and the filing never states CompHealth coined the category.

Breadth today, per the company's own statistics page: locums physicians in all 50 states, 75+ specialties, with 94% of U.S. healthcare facilities using locum tenens annually (locum tenens page) — self-reported industry figures, not independently verified here.

Bet: that even if CompHealth did not literally invent temporary physician placement, anchoring the category in Utah still matters because CHG's scale made locum tenens a normalized staffing layer for rural and safety-net hospitals.

Utah Context

Salt Lake City has been the corporate home since at least the 2006 S-1 address. CompHealth is one of several CHG brands; others named in the S-1 include Weatherby Locums, RN Network, and allied-health lines.

What They Need Now

Healthcare staffing firms hire recruiters, credentialing specialists, licensing coordinators, and specialty-aligned account managers. CompHealth publishes a general careers path through CHG; specific open roles were not captured here.

Careers: https://www.chghealthcare.com/about-us/careers (CHG corporate site — CompHealth /about-us returned 404 when probed 2026-08-11)

Open Questions

• Origination proof — no independent history of locum tenens naming CompHealth as inventor appears in this corpus; only self-reported web copy vs. an SEC file that stops at "oldest and largest."
• Current corporate structure beyond the footer label — whether CHG Management, Inc. is the ultimate parent, private-equity ownership, and post-2006 acquisitions are not documented here.
• IPO withdrawal — S-1 filed March 2006, withdrawn July 2006 (S-1); company remains private.
• utah-entity division-of-corporations number not resolved.

Evidence

• Source: CompHealth — What Is Locum Tenens Page · https://www.comphealth.com/locum-tenens
• Source: CompHealth — Why CompHealth Page · https://www.comphealth.com/why-comphealth
• Source: CHG Healthcare Services S-1 Registration Statement (2006) · https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1356792/000119312506063319/ds1.htm