Generalist healthcare staffing for physicians, NPs/PAs and telemedicine providers
An established, credentialed healthcare staffing firm covering the exact clinician roles med spas must fill — with useful contract and telemedicine options — but a generalist without aesthetics curation, and with unpublished fees.
Vivo HealthStaff is a healthcare staffing and recruitment firm headquartered in Dublin, California, offering what it calls a full-stack clinical healthcare network.
Its services span permanent physician and executive recruitment, temporary and contract clinical provider staffing, telehealth platform support, and adjacent program-management and back-office services. The firm reports Inc. 5000 fastest-growing-company recognition in 2022 and 2023, ISO 9001 certification, and a 98% two-year retention rate on placements. For med spas, the relevance is role coverage: it recruits the physicians, NPs and PAs — including telemedicine providers — that aesthetics practices need for medical-director and injector positions, albeit without an aesthetics-dedicated practice.
Ideal customer
Med spas and telehealth-adjacent aesthetics businesses that need physician medical directors or NP/PA hires filled by an established staffing firm, and that don't require aesthetics-specific candidate curation.
Vivo HealthStaff is the kind of firm a med spa turns to when it wants an established healthcare staffing agency rather than a boutique aesthetics recruiter. Headquartered in Dublin, California, the firm describes itself as a full-stack clinical healthcare network: permanent physician and executive search on one side, temporary and contract clinical staffing on the other, with a substantial telemedicine staffing practice and back-office support services in between.
The med-spa relevance is straightforward. The roles Vivo recruits every day — physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and telehealth providers — are precisely the roles a med spa must fill to operate legally and grow: the medical director, the supervising physician, the injector-NP. What Vivo does not offer is aesthetics specialisation, and our scoring reflects both sides of that trade.
Credentials and scale, first. Vivo reports back-to-back Inc. 5000 fastest-growing-company recognition in 2022 and 2023, a top-ten placement on the San Francisco Business Times growth list, and ISO 9001 certification — unusual rigour signals in a fragmented staffing market. Its client roster runs to public health systems and municipal operations, including the LA County Department of Mental Health and the City of Eugene, alongside telehealth platforms such as DirectADHD.
Second, flexibility on the medical-director seat. Because Vivo runs both permanent search and contract staffing, a med spa can trial a part-time or telemedicine-based medical director on a contract basis before committing to a permanent hire — a genuinely useful option for new openings. Contract clinicians come with claims-based malpractice coverage arranged through MedChoice Risk Retention Group, which removes one item from the owner's compliance checklist. The firm also claims a 98% retention rate on placements over the past two years; that is a company-reported figure, but a confident one to publish.
The generalist profile is the central caveat. Vivo's public track record is built on health systems, government clients and telehealth platforms — not aesthetics. It has no curated pool of injectors, no published med-spa placements, and a recruiter who has never negotiated an injector commission structure will need educating on your economics. For front-of-house or aesthetician hiring, look elsewhere entirely.
Pricing is unpublished, with searches and staffing engagements quoted individually — standard for the agency model, but it means no benchmarking before a sales call. And despite the firm's growth accolades, we found no verifiable third-party review aggregates (G2, Trustpilot or similar) for its services, so this review cites none; ask directly for med-spa or aesthetics references, and expect the honest answer to be a short list.
Vivo HealthStaff suits med spas that need the clinician seats filled by a credentialed, established firm — particularly telemedicine-friendly models, multi-site groups wanting contract-to-permanent flexibility on the medical director, and operators who value ISO-grade process over industry intimacy. Aesthetics-first practices hiring injectors on culture and technique will be better served by a specialist.
Our verdict: a solid, credible generalist with real strengths in exactly the provider categories med spas hire from, scored down on fit and transparency. Capable hands for the medical-director problem; not a native of the aesthetics world.
By Med Spa Vendor Hub Editorial Team. Last reviewed July 1, 2026. Independent editorial review — how we score.
“LA County Department of Mental Health”
“City of Eugene”
“DirectADHD”
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