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2 Our mission is to provide our clients and staff with a world-class, patient-focused service. Introducing Link Link has provided a range of international manpower services since the mid-1970s. Our company head office is in Houston, USA, and our international head office is in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Link also has regional recruitment offices in Europe and Asia. We provide professional staff to our clients as either permanent placements or contract staff. Over the years, we have earned a reputation for providing a fast and effective service that includes the management of all credentialing, mobilization and local support issues. Link services include the recruitment of physicians, allied health professionals and nursing staff, as well as consultancy and recruitment management. Our candidates come mainly from the US, the UK, Europe and Asia. Their skills, knowledge and abilities are based on strong educational backgrounds and years of clinical experience. Through our selection and clinical evaluation programs, Link identifies and delivers the candidates who best meet our clients needs. This focused selection procedure and our commitment to supporting professional staff help us to develop effective partnerships and longterm relationships with our clients. Our pre-deployment work and industry-leading care program for staff, Total Link Care (tlc), enables us to attract and retain the best healthcare professionals. Through this, we help our clients to reduce turnover and replacement costs. Our aim is simple: to provide fully qualified, well-supported, motivated, reliable, international staff who are focused on patient care. Brian Moreton Chairman & CEO

3 How Link can help Challenges facing the healthcare sector Many healthcare providers find it difficult to hire and retain skilled healthcare professionals, and this can have a negative effect on the quality of patient care. Advances in medical science have led to changes in care patterns, with a greater emphasis on the short-term care of more acutely sick patients using increasingly complex technology. These challenges, coupled with an ageing workforce in the US, for example, the current healthcare workforce is the oldest ever mean that all parts of the sector have to broaden their recruitment programs and reassess the contribution of qualified experienced international staff. Solving skill shortages The staff turnover rate for healthcare facilities is typically under 10% a year, but industry experts believe this figure may rise to more than 20% within a few years. In our experience, client recruitment programs generally meet around 80% of staffing needs, but, as staffing needs increase, it will become difficult to sustain this level. Link recognizes these challenges and aims to overcome them by working closely with clients to complement their own recruitment programs through focused and/or specialist programs for sourcing international staff. Link s international reach and knowledge of global standards in healthcare enable us to recruit in regions where professionals are keen to move to our clients facilities and locations candidate training and qualifications meet client s standards the scope for integration and retention of staff is good the salary packages offered by clients will attract high-quality candidates.

4 Partnerships Our programs are designed to complement and support, not replace, our clients recruitment programs. We understand that each of our clients has unique needs, so our staff work to develop tailored international recruitment programs that ensure a good candidate fit for organizations and facilities across the healthcare sector. Link usually takes responsibility for managing the entire personnel sourcing program, including advertising, screening, clinical assessment, interviewing, credentialing, education, immigration and integration, and acts as an ambassador for its clients when selecting the best candidates. The method of assignment is also tailored to suit our US and international clients, with International being mainly direct placements with a one-off fee to cover our recruitment and mobilization support services. On US assignments, there is the option for either direct placement or 2 3 year Contract assignments before moving to the client s direct employment with no placement fee. Through pre- and post-deployment clinical and personal support programs like Total Link Care, we help clients to sustain retention levels of more than 90%, which reduces turnover volume and staff replacement costs. Collectively, our partnership with clients delivers, reduced human resources and recruitment costs; lower staffing costs through international staff; and improved retention and patient care.

5 Recruitment programs Physicians Allied health Nurses Link has over 30 years of experience in the manpower industry and this enables us to screen and select the best possible candidates to meet our clients needs. We typically run international recruitment programs for one or more clients and, although Link s recruitment team manages these programs, our Clinical and Operations Management has the final say before client selection. We select Link professionals according to experience and alignment with the client s individual needs. During the selection process, we assess each candidate s suitability for a long-term or permanent overseas move, English proficiency and ability to settle in. Our physicians are trained either in the USA or other Western countries. Each physician is an experienced professional holding appropriate qualifications: board certified, consultant or specialist. We provide physicians from all medical specialties, including: Cardiology Dermatology Emergency room Endocrinology Gastroenterology Infectious diseases Internal medicine Interventional radiology Neonatology Nephrology Neurology Neurosurgery Obstetrics/gynecology Orthopedics Pediatrics Pathology Pediatric nephrology Plastic surgery Radiology Urology. Our allied health professionals are either degreequalified staff with 3 5 years of experience or masters-prepared staff with more than 5 years of experience, including supervisory roles. We provide allied health professionals from the following disciplines: Physiotherapists Occupational therapists Speech therapists Radiographers Nuclear medicine technicians Ultrasound technicians Respiratory therapists Laboratory technicians Our nurses are degree-qualified staff with 5 15 years of experience or masters-prepared, through to supervisory or management levels. Specialties within nursing include Clinical Critical care Emergency room Medical/surgical Maternal child care Peri-operative services Other Nurse educator Diabetes educator Dialysis Infection control Quality/patient safety. Clinical management Chief nursing officer/ director of nursing Divisional director Nurse manager House supervisor Charge nurse

6 Consultancy Link provides consultancy and recruitment management services that can help healthcare organizations to identify efficient and effective processes that will enable them to reach their strategic and operational goals. We help clients to evaluate and optimize performance across a range of functions, including: organizational assessments; review of cost models; manpower effectiveness; product delivery; staff and customer satisfaction; and alignment of strategic goals to the organization s mission, vision and long-term business plan. On recruitment management, we can take on the lead role in international staffing for healthcare management, supervisory and specialist physician, allied health and nursing positions. The typical contract would have volume discounts and fees tied to cost targets, so it means a real win-win cost reduction for clients. By drawing on its experience as a leader in international healthcare recruitment, Link and its consultancy partners can help its clients to achieve significant and sustainable cost improvements.

7 For further information on Link Hospital and Healthcare Professionals LLC, either or contact one of the following offices: USA, Head Office Equity Drive, Suite 250 Houston, Texas, 77041, USA Tel: Fax: International, Head Office PO Box 4030, E25 Building, Office 803 Off Delma Street (13th) Al Nayhan Camp Area Abu Dhabi, UAE Tel Fax European Recruitment Office 2 Smithy Court, Pemberton Business Park Wigan WN3 6PS, UK Tel Fax Asia Recruitment office Link Hosptial and Healthcare at IDC Manpower Unit 18, 3rd Floor Topy s Place Cor Industria and Economia Street Barangay Bagumabayan Quezon City 1100, Philippines Tel: Fax: