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Stronger Together.
Better Outcomes.

Core Anesthesia Holdings provides exceptional, dependable, quality anesthesia coverage to hospitals and surgery centers — physician-led, built on strong clinical care, responsive service, and clinician empowerment.

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The Core Standard

We aren't a typical locums agency. We are perioperative experts, with a deeply rooted understanding of the accuracy of clinical placements.

Physician Led

Anesthesia groups led by physicians, for physicians. Every decision that touches the table is made by someone who has stood at one.

Partner Focused

Collaborative partnerships built on trust, alignment, and shared success — long-term relationships on both the physician and the facility side.

Perioperative First

We are perioperative medicine experts, not a generic staffing desk — and that expertise follows the work. Into the OR, and beyond it into radiology, bronchoscopy, and endoscopy suites.

Re-imagining perioperative medicine

The next five years of procedural care are not yet written.

How clinicians practice medicine has changed profoundly in the post-pandemic era, and change will be a relative constant in an era of rapid technological advance. What “normal” looks like in another five years remains to be seen.

Anesthesiologists, as perioperative medicine experts, are uniquely positioned to frame the future of procedural care through expert leadership, adaptability, and ingenuity. That is true inside the traditional operating room — and increasingly outside of it.

Traditional operating rooms and surgical suites
Interventional radiology
Bronchoscopy suites
Endoscopy suites

A clinician and a nurse talking in a hospital corridor

For Facilities

Coverage you can
count on.

Hospitals and surgery centers rely on Core Anesthesia Holdings when they cannot compromise on quality. We understand the cost of a delayed OR schedule.

Dependable, continuous coverage — not a revolving door
Rigorous pre-screening and credentialing verification
Onboarding tailored to your facility’s protocols
A named human on the other end, every time

“Core Anesthesia delivered a phenomenal CRNA within 48 hours. They saved our surgical week.”

— Chief of Surgery, Chicago ASC

For Providers

Keep
your
professional respect.

The skill set we leverage as clinicians is essential to the efficient operations, and eventual success, of any healthcare setting. We build around that instead of around it.

Clinician empowerment as a design principle, not a slogan
Your professional respect and intellectual property stay yours
Licensing, credentialing, and malpractice handled
Long-term relationships, not transactional placements

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Board-certified anesthesia clinician — one of the providers Core Anesthesia places

The clinicians we place

White-Glove Support

The match is the easy part.

Matching a clinician to a case is straightforward. The friction is everywhere else — credentialing, licensing, malpractice, travel. Four pillars we hold so neither the clinician nor the facility has to.

Credentialing

Expedited verification and hospital privileging support to get you in the OR faster.

Licensing

Proactive management of cross-state medical licenses and renewals.

Travel & Housing

Premium accommodations and seamless flight logistics managed by our internal team.

Malpractice

Comprehensive, highly-rated medical malpractice insurance with tail coverage included.

A foundational principle

Profit above our costs goes back to your community.

Financial concerns and the profit motive can make the delivery of healthcare problematic on an ethical and operational level. We openly acknowledge this. Our priority is to do the right thing for patients in need and the facilities that provide their care.

As a foundational principle, any profits we earn above and beyond reasonable operational costs and innovation investment will be donated back to the communities we serve.

We welcome and encourage our partner facilities to identify worthy causes in their catchment area that we can support.

Our Story

Founded by someone who lived the problem.

As a practicing anesthesiologist and a former Medical Director of Inpatient Perioperative Services, I have experienced firsthand the problems of staffing continuity and clinician disenfranchisement. Core Anesthesia Holdings is centered on strong clinical care, responsive customer service, and clinician empowerment.

“I want to make a good living, but I have no interest in practicing ‘for profit’ medicine. What I am greatly interested in is clinicians retaining their professional respect and intellectual property.”

Keya Locke, MD · Founder & Shareholder

COconsulting

REimagined

Get in touch

The direct line.

Whether you need coverage by Monday or you’re ready to put your CV in clinician hands, this is where it starts. One human. On the other end. Every time.

Perioperative medicine, RE-imagined.

Whether you need urgent coverage or you’re seeking your next placement, we are ready to partner with you.

Email: info@coreanesthesiaholdings.com
Coverage: Full Practice Authority states · nationwide footprint
Response time: Within one business day, by a human.

Stronger Together.Better Outcomes.