Blake Nations has more than 35 years of experience in healthcare recruiting, physician staffing, and related business development. Blake has worked on both sides of the staffing business — recruiting physicians for locum tenens firms and serving as a client to staffing firms while building healthcare-related businesses nationwide.

Launching InstantLocums is Blake's solution to witnessing years of healthcare facilities struggling with slow staffing processes, outdated systems, and recruiter bottlenecks. InstantLocums brings locum tenens staffing into the modern age — and the beneficiaries are clients and healthcare providers alike.

InstantLocums combines real healthcare staffing experience with technology to help facilities fill coverage faster and help providers find opportunities more efficiently. The platform was built to remove the obstacles purposely created by legacy staffing firms — delivering faster matching, better communication, streamlined credentialing, and a more transparent experience for both sides.

Unlike founders coming from outside the industry, Blake built InstantLocums from firsthand operational experience spanning decades in healthcare recruiting and operations. Every workflow, automation, and feature was designed around real-world staffing challenges — with a commitment to continue evolving as the marketplace grows.

A major differentiator built into the platform is the ability for clients and providers to negotiate pay rates directly, eliminating the opaque markups assessed by traditional locum tenens firms — which can easily range from 50% to 100%. InstantLocums limits its markup to 15% of provider pay for timely-paying clients, allowing facilities to pay providers more while still saving significantly on overall staffing costs.

If you run a healthcare facility that needs reliable coverage — or you're a provider looking for a better locums experience — Blake has likely seen your exact challenge before.