GlobeMed Resources Celebrates Twenty Years Providing Valued Services To Our Clients
We offer a special thank you to the thousands of Indian Nurses and families who entrusted GlobeMed with their journeys to the US! Also, we’d like to recognize the 80+ healthcare provider and outsourcing clients who have always chosen to take a partnership approach when working with GlobeMed and our Indian Teams.
Our Story:
On May 12, 2002 GlobeMed Resources (GlobeMed) began a wonderful journey with Teams based in Richmond Virginia, Chennai India and Sydney Australia. Initially, our sole mission was to assist US medical facilities as they address the critical nursing shortage by providing Internationally Educated Nurses and temporary Travel Nurse solutions.
Through the years GlobeMed shifted to an India-centric model focusing on Indian Educated Nurses. We grew to over sixty fulltime employees housed in ten offices and supported more than eighty healthcare providers in the US and UK. We still continue to recruit India Nurses who have current priority dates and are proud to say that we continue to support our nurses while many others have exited the Indian market years ago.
At the same time, GlobeMed diversified into other opportunities where we could leverage our Teams in India and the US. Today, we continue delivering Nurses from India, but also have strong initiatives to recruit Indian Students for US Universities and Medical Schools, assist US organizations in opening Operations in India, delivering Administrative Outsourcing Services, and providing Marketing Assistance to US companies.
A key component of GlobeMed’s success is its entrepreneurial spirit to craft value-added solutions to new opportunities. Examples include a successful trial for Medical Physicists in India to perform dosimetrist tasks working virtually with US Physicians; establishment of a highly effective Remote ICU Monitoring facilities in India supporting US hospitals; and the timely completion of credentialling templates for US healthcare providers. Some more details follow.
Our Core Team remains intact. Mr. Ram Kumar, Sr. Vice President of India Operations and Founding Partner, manages all business operations in India. Ms. Anuradha Menon, Director of Recruitment since the beginning, anchors all Healthcare and IT recruitment initiatives. Andy Downing (CEO), Paul Nimitz (COO), and Chris Breidenbaugh (VP of Nursing), each a Founding Partner, remain involved providing Client relationship, nurse consulting, and business strategy services. Sadly, we lost Marilynn Moschel (deceased), who was a founding member and supported all HR, Immigration and Legal functions. Her legacy still reverberates in GlobeMed practices.
A deeper dive into our Journey follows.
2002 - Today
Indian Nurses:
India offers the world’s largest pool of English speaking Registered Nurses with education similar to that of the US. During our first five years of operation, GlobeMed signed over three-thousand Indian nurses to exclusive representation for placement in the US. During this period GlobeMed successfully placed over four-hundred nurses with our clients. To assure the quality of our nurses stand out and perform, GlobeMed Academy was created that involved programs focused on clinical training, English and cultural differences that each nurse would face when starting work in the US. GlobeMed Academy even staffed an American English teacher in Chennai to assist Nurses in their English proficiency. GlobeMed experienced rapid growth in the mid 2000’s and established itself as the second largest US recruitment company dedicated to Indian nurses. To support this growth, multiple Nurse Support Managers were staffed in both India and the US to manage advancement through the GlobeMed Academy program and to facilitate the arrival and delivery of nurses in the US. Many of these Nurse Support Managers also made their way to the US as Registered Nurses.
In 2006 US immigration policies changed where the approximate one-year process to obtain a visa turned into a ten-year plus process. This led GlobeMed to diversify into other business opportunities, while maintaining our commitment to supporting the dreams of our Indian nurses.
2006 – 2012
Mexican Nurses:
In 2006 GlobeMed turned to Mexico and partnered with Mexconex to supply bilingual (English/Spanish) speaking nurses to US clients. Spanish/English speaking nurses are in huge demand in the US, but very few Mexican nurses have the level of education and English proficiency to qualify for US licensure and visa. To address these deficiencies GlobeMed packaged and enhanced our GlobeMed Academy training program to address many of these challenges. Over the five years of this partnership GlobeMed delivered sizeable numbers of Mexican educated nurses to Texas hospitals and received recognition as the first US companies to successfully deliver bilingual Nurses from Mexico to US hospitals in volumes.
2006 – Today
Administrative Outsourcing:
In 2006 GlobeMed started offering administrative Outsourcing services from our Chennai offices to US organizations. We focused on providing dedicated staff at a fixed monthly cost. Our clients included IT and Healthcare staffing companies, Real Estate companies, Software companies, and hospitals. This business has grown over the years and continues to be an important service offering for GlobeMed.
2007 – Today
Recruitment Services:
Information Technology:
GlobeMed has leveraged our recruitment staff in India to provide IT recruitment services to multiple companies in the US. Since India is one of the world’s largest suppliers of IT talent, it only makes sense to have Indian staff be on the forefront in first level sourcing of candidates. Working with GlobeMed, our clients preferred the relationship of having a US company manage the Indian recruitment staff which made communications and logistics easier.
University Recruitment:
GlobeMed entered the student recruitment market in 2012 specializing the recruitment of Indian students for US higher education studies. These university partnerships focused on the Medical Physics/Health Sciences, Information Sciences, and Medical degrees. Today, we focus on the recruitment of students offering specialized medical degrees that stand us apart from the hundred’s of other recruiting organizations overseas. Our partnership with Trinity School of Medicine offers a unique approach to receiving a US Medical Degree with basic studies online, followed by studies in the Caribbean at their St. Vincent campus, and finally clinicals and residency programs in the US.
2010 – 2013
Project Management:
Opening a business or complex operation by a US company in India is a difficult process both financially and legally. Ram Kumar, GlobeMed Sr. VP of Indian Operations, was very successful in building out GlobeMed to seven cities in India and navigating through various political and legal situations. In 2010, we were approached by a visionary US company that wanted to build and staff a remote ICU monitoring center in India to support US hospitals. Our client, Advanced ICU, turned to GlobeMed to manage the implementation of their monitoring center by dealing with facilities, technical hardware, connectivity, staff recruitment, Indian regulations and licenses, while effectively negotiating on Advanced ICU’s behalf with multiple suppliers. The Monitoring Center opened on schedule and staffed by GlobeMed nurses.
2014 – 2020
Marketing Partnerships:
The combined GlobeMed leadership team has over 100 years of sales and marketing experience, and through that time developed a network of valuable contacts in our industry. Starting in 2014 we entered multiple marketing partnerships to leverage our relationships for the introduction of our partner’s products and services. Our partnerships were with nationally recognized companies in the Medical Coding, Medical Credentialing, and IT Sales development. Our efforts resulted in new sales and clients for our partners where their internal sales teams had not been successful in the past.
Our Team and our Nurses
It has been twenty years, and our vision from the start was to bring value to our US clients by leveraging the tremendous talent and resources in India. We are fortunate to have a leadership team and staff that has remained with us over the years and brings tremendous value and experience to all our business ventures. The following are those who have more than ten years of service and remain part of the GlobeMed team:
Ram Kumar 20 Years
Andy Downing 20 Years
Paul Nimitz 20 Years
Chris Breidenbaugh (consultant) 20 Years
Anuradha Menon 19 Years
Rajesh Kumar 18 Years
Balaji 18 Years
Padma Balaji 16 Years
Navalavan Jayaram 14 Years
Sudarshan 14 Years
Bhoopalan 14 Years
Banu Priya 11 Years
We also want to recognize two other founding members who were instrumental in making GlobeMed a success.
Chris Breidenbaugh, RN who brought all the clinical knowledge to GlobeMed, designed the GlobeMed Academy program, managed much of the immigration process, and provided the clinical support to our clients and nurses. Chris was a founding member and continues to advise us on nursing and staffing issues.Marilyn Moschel (deceased), founding member and helped define best-in-class immigration, delivery and support processes, in addition to managing all human resources needs.
Moments Captured in Photos
There are many great smiles from those who made the journey from India to the US, and many were captured in arrival and shopping photos that we have loaded into a shared photo album. If you are a GlobeMed nurse, make sure you browse through this photo album to find yourself and your friends. Please comment on where you are today, tell us about your family, and where your career has taken you.
Continued best wishes from the GlobeMed team.