Another nurse staffing marketplace with huge amounts of funding ($150M+ to date), Trusted Health is emblematic of the wider staffing problems and clinician shortages facing the US healthcare industry. Decades of delayed modernization of the healthcare workforce appear to be fueling the current snowball of healthcare staffing solutions trying to solve a seemingly straightforward problem for hospitals and clinics: how do you get the right clinician in the right role in the most efficient manner to keep delivering quality patient care for your patients? With great opportunity comes great competition however - even bigger players like Vivian Health are constantly growing, and one has to wonder - when is aggregation of these startups via mergers and acqusitions going to occur, just like what we're seeing in the mental health space now? (October 2023)