Fast, Reliable, Culturally Competent Healthcare Staffing for Contracting Officers Serving Tribal and IHS Facilities Nationwide
Ellsworth LLC is a Native-owned, ISBEE-certified medical staffing company delivering streamlined, fully compliant, and culturally competent staffing solutions for Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals and tribal health facilities. We serve IHS Contracting Officers working in high-demand locations such as Cheyenne River, Chinle, Shiprock, Santa Fe, Mescalero, and over 50 more IHS facilities across the United States. Our mission is simple: Reduce your workload, save you time, and help you meet your placement goals with zero hassle. FPDS | ELLSWORTH, LLC | Federal Award Recipient Profile | USAspending
Why Contract Officers Trust Ellsworth
✅ Indigenous-Owned, ISBEE-Certified: Fully Buy Indian Act compliant, helping you meet Native preference goals. Our founder was born in Tuba City and raised in Ganado Arizona, our founder ( Kiiyaa’aanii nishli/ Ashiihi dashshicheii).
✅ Fast Placement Guarantee: Rapid response to urgent needs in facilities like Tuba City, Fort Yates, and Gallup.
✅ Audit-Ready Documentation: All submissions come pre-packaged with FAR, HHSAR, and Area-specific compliance built in.
✅ Cultural Fit Focus: Each provider is trained in tribal culture and readiness, ensuring long-term success in places like Pine Ridge, Zuni, and Whiteriver.
✅ All-In-One Vendor Model: Travel, housing, credentialing, and payroll offers and negotiations handled by our in-house operations team and 45 full-time recruiters.
✅ Proactive Future-Proofing: With federal discussions underway about IHS restructuring or agency realignment, NOW is the time to build a relationship with a proven Indian-owned contracting partner. When others are scrambling, you’ll already have a trusted ISBEE staffing ally in place with Ellsworth.
✅ System-Wide Shortfall Solutions: Ellsworth is built to handle region-wide and agency-wide staffing crises. With our national network and pre-screened provider pool, we can quickly deliver candidates to fill critical gaps—before disruptions affect care delivery.
We Proudly Offer Our Services to These IHS Areas and Facilities
Whether you manage staffing needs at:
- Northern Navajo Medical Center (Shiprock, NM)
- Santa Fe Indian Hospital (Santa Fe, NM)
- Cheyenne River Hospital (Eagle Butte, SD)
- Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Hospital (Acoma, NM)
- Fort Yates Hospital (Fort Yates, ND)
- Mescalero Hospital (Mescalero, NM)
- Zuni Comprehensive Health Center (Zuni, NM)
- Tuba City Regional Health Care (Tuba City, AZ)
- Phoenix Indian Medical Center (Phoenix, AZ)
- Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, AZ)
- Alaska Native Medical Center (Anchorage, AK)
- Gallup Indian Medical Center (Gallup, NM)
- Fort Defiance Indian Hospital (Fort Defiance, AZ)
…or any of the 50+ facilities IHS Hospitals—we have clinicians, nurses, and support staff ready for deployment.
Services We Provide
- Candidate delivery in as few as 7–14 business days
- Permanent Placement & Locum Tenens, Temporary to Long-term,
- Medical, Dental & Behavioral Health Providers
- Emergency Department & Rural Clinic Coverage
- Cultural Competency Training for Providers
- Real-Time Staffing Updates for COs
- Access to a national database of 46,000+ professionals
- Full candidate presentations (bios, salary history, leadership style, relocation ability)
- Ongoing follow-up after placement for long-term success
- 45 Trusted Full-time Recruiters focused on Permanent Placement and Long-Term Retention
- Tribal preference, Indigenous preference, recruiting focus
Built for You, the Contract Officer
We don’t just place providers. We empower Contracting Officers with easy, flexible, and efficient solutions:
- Custom SOW templates and price justifications
- Contract packets ready for legal and funding review
- Direct CO support line and onboarding concierge
- Placement performance data by facility and region
Let’s Get Your Facility Staffed
Reach out to Ellsworth today and experience staffing built around your success. We support IHS Contract Officers from Fort Defiance to Parker, Red Lake to Winnebago, Rosebud to Browning, Telequah to Eagle Butte, and Lawton to Anchorage.
Legacy Impact Bonus
Scholarship Support for Native Students: Revenue from Ellsworth contracts supports scholarships for Native students pursuing careers in healthcare fields such as patient care technician, certified EKG technician, social service assistant, radiologic technology, physical therapy aide, optician, and phlebotomist at Arizona Central College. When you partner with us, you help build the next generation of Native healthcare professionals.
Let’s Work Together
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Ellsworth LLC | Native-Owned. Mission-Driven. IHS-Compliant. Serving the staffing needs of Contracting Officers in over 50 IHS and tribal healthcare facilities nationwide. At Ellsworth LLC, we believe staffing should never feel transactional. It should feel like trust. Like a conversation between people who know what it means to care for our communities. We are a Native American-owned medical staffing company built with one purpose in mind: To strengthen the health systems that serve our people.
We know the realities you face—limited resources, remote locations, and the weight of responsibility to deliver excellent care. We’re here to help you carry that load. With high-quality healthcare professionals and a commitment to the IHS mission, we are ready to serve.
Ellsworth LLC
Culturally Competent Staffing for IHS, 638, and Self-Governance Health Systems – Ellsworth LLC is proud to confirm its eligibility under the Buy-Indian set-aside ISBEE (UEI: E84NXMLHLMS5) and operates under NAICS Codes 561320 — Temporary Help Services and 621111 — Offices of Physicians, except Mental Health Specialists. Our business model and services are designed to meet these specific requirements, and our partnership with LiquidAgents Healthcare, LLC and StaffingEngine, LLC supports us. With over 22 years of combined recruiting expertise, we ensure culturally competent staffing solutions that meet the needs of healthcare professionals and organizations alike.
