Samantha Holloway, CSP, CHCR — Senior Healthcare Recruiter & Locum Tenens Specialist | · Sacramento, CA

Samantha Holloway has spent 13 years doing what most healthcare recruiters only claim to do: building lasting relationships with both healthcare professionals and the facilities that need them. After earning her degree in Health Services Administration from Cal State Sacramento, she joined a regional healthcare staffing firm where she quickly discovered her ability to translate the complex world of locum tenens credentialing into clear, actionable guidance for candidates.

Over her career, Samantha has managed sourcing, screening, credentialing coordination, and placement for more than 600 healthcare professionals including primary care physicians, psychiatrists, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, psychiatric technicians, certified nursing assistants, and allied health specialists. She developed particular depth in California's state hospital network — including placements at Department of State Hospitals facilities in Atascadero, Coalinga, Metropolitan, Napa, Patton, and Salinas Valley — becoming a go-to recruiter for candidates seeking longer-term psychiatric and forensic healthcare assignments.

Samantha earned her Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) designation through the American Staffing Association and her Certified Healthcare Recruiter (CHCR) credential through the National Association of Personnel Representatives, adding her SHRM-CP to formalize her HR strategy foundations. She is deeply familiar with California medical licensing timelines, Joint Commission credentialing standards, malpractice coverage structures for locum assignments, and the compensation benchmarks across physician, nursing, and allied health disciplines.

Her content for Intuitive Health Services is grounded in the realities of healthcare recruiting: she writes about what actually happens during credentialing, how long licensing approvals realistically take, what candidates should ask before accepting a placement, and how to evaluate a staffing agency's support model. Healthcare professionals trust her guidance because it reflects 13 years of real placement experience — not generic HR advice repurposed for a healthcare context.

Samantha is a member of the American Staffing Association and the California Staffing Professionals network. She has presented on healthcare recruiter best practices at regional ASA chapter events and contributes to industry discussions on improving the locum tenens candidate experience, particularly for nursing and allied health professionals who are underserved by staffing content that skews toward physicians.