# CompHealth

**Type:** venture
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Medium
**Tier:** C
**Focus:** locum tenens, physician staffing, rural hospital coverage, temporary clinicians, healthcare workforce
**Identifiers:** cik=0001356792, ein=51-0319328
**Stage:** Private; brand of CHG Healthcare (CHG Management, Inc.) — parent filed a withdrawn 2006 IPO (S-1)
**Primary Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Utah Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Region:** Salt Lake City
**Domain:** health-bio
**Website:** https://www.comphealth.com/
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Needs-reviewed:** 2026-08-11
**Pull:** *The Salt Lake City staffing brand that says it invented locum tenens in 1979 — and the SEC filing that only claims to be among the oldest providers.*

## 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](comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md)).

The company **trades as part of CHG Healthcare**: CompHealth's site footer reads **"© CHG Management, Inc. CHG Healthcare Company"** ([locum tenens page](comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md)). 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](chg-healthcare-s1-2006.md)).

## 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](comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md), [why CompHealth](comphealth-why-comphealth-page.md)).

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](chg-healthcare-s1-2006.md)). "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](comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md)) — 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](chg-healthcare-s1-2006.md)); company remains private.
- **`utah-entity`** division-of-corporations number not resolved.

## Evidence

- [Source: CompHealth — What Is Locum Tenens Page](comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/comphealth-locum-tenens-page.md · https://www.comphealth.com/locum-tenens
- [Source: CompHealth — Why CompHealth Page](comphealth-why-comphealth-page.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/comphealth-why-comphealth-page.md · https://www.comphealth.com/why-comphealth
- [Source: CHG Healthcare Services S-1 Registration Statement (2006)](chg-healthcare-s1-2006.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/chg-healthcare-s1-2006.md · https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1356792/000119312506063319/ds1.htm

## Maintainer Notes

- Consider a separate CHG Healthcare parent page.