Medicalis

What Medicalis does

Medicalis is a Swiss healthcare and social-sector staffing specialist and a wholly owned brand of Interiman Group, the country's leading privately held HR services conglomerate. Founded in 2010 in Carouge, Geneva, the company recruits and places healthcare professionals — including nurses, nursing aides, medical-administrative staff, and specialized care workers — into hospitals, clinics, EMS nursing homes, home-care providers (CMS/Spitex), psychiatric facilities, and medical practices, offering both temporary staffing and permanent recruitment. Its service portfolio includes payrolling, on-site managed staffing, joint-venture workforce partnerships, and a Try & Hire trial-to-permanent pathway. Digital tooling consists of an internal Applicant Tracking System shared across Interiman Group's 12 brands, the EasyTime time-tracking and EasyMission time-validation portals, a candidate-facing mobile app for accepting temporary assignments, and the Medicalis Academy online learning platform (built with Hotelis Academy), which delivers more than 40 certified continuing-education courses.

Name

Medicalis

Legal name

Medicalis SA

Website

https://medicalis.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Medicalis is a Swiss healthcare staffing specialist placing 3,000+ nurses, aides, and medical staff annually into 350+ hospitals, clinics, EMS, and home-care providers through six branches, complemented by permanent recruitment, payrolling, and a 40+ course training academy, operating as a brand of Interiman Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical Direct Hire (Nursing/Allied/Physicians) (BPACAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing services
• Medical recruitment
• Temporary healthcare placement
• Permanent healthcare hiring
• Healthcare workforce solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Les Acacias

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing Placement: Placement of temporary healthcare professionals at hospitals, clinics, EMS, and other healthcare facilities. Medicalis handles all administrative aspects including payroll, contracts, and compliance with Swiss labor regulations (CCT Travail temporaire). Clients pay for hours worked only.
2. Permanent Recruitment: Fixed-position recruitment services matching healthcare professionals with permanent positions at healthcare institutions. Fees are typically structured as a percentage of the placed candidate's annual salary or as a flat fee per placement.
3. Training Services (Medicalis Academy): Continuing education and professional development courses for healthcare workers. Training catalog includes over 40 courses in clinical expertise, communication, emergency care, and healthcare management. Delivered in partnership with Hotelis Academy.
4. Payrolling Services: Administrative services handling payroll processing, social security contributions, and compliance for temporary workers placed at client organizations.
5. On-site Services: On-site management of staffing needs at healthcare facilities, with Medicalis consultants present to coordinate workforce requirements.
6. Joint Venture Partnerships: Collaborative arrangements with healthcare institutions to jointly address staffing challenges and workforce planning.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Medicalis is a Swiss healthcare staffing specialist that recruits, selects, and places medical, paramedical, and social professionals into temporary and permanent positions at hospitals, clinics, EMS (nursing homes), and home care services. The company complements staffing with payrolling, on-site workforce management, joint venture partnerships, and a continuing education platform (Medicalis Academy) offering over 40 certified training courses.

Product overview

Medicalis is a Swiss healthcare staffing specialist operating as part of Interiman Group, offering a comprehensive suite of recruitment and workforce management services. The core portfolio includes permanent recruitment (Recrutement Fixe) and temporary staffing (Personnel temporaire) as the primary offerings, supported by administrative services (Payrolling), on-site management (On-site), and partnership models (Joint Venture). Digital tools include EasyTime for time tracking and EasyMission for time entry validation. Medicalis Academy provides over 40 certified training courses for healthcare professionals across clinical, leadership, communication, and wellness domains. The Try & Hire module enables trial periods before permanent hiring. The company operates six branches across Switzerland serving over 3,000 healthcare professionals and 350 institutions annually.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Medicalis Academy: Training and continuing education division for healthcare professionals, offering over 40 courses including clinical expertise, leadership & HR, communication, risk prevention, emergency care, and wellness categories. Launched in 2020 and operated from Geneva with a Lausanne antenna.

Products and services

• Personnel temporaire (Temporary Staffing) Temporary staffing service providing qualified healthcare professionals to hospitals, clinics, EMS (nursing homes), and other healthcare institutions to cover absences, seasonal peaks, and special projects. Medicalis handles payroll, contracts, and compliance with Swiss temporary labor regulations (CCT Travail temporaire), and clients pay only for hours worked.
• Recrutement Fixe (Permanent Recruitment) Permanent recruitment service for healthcare and social sector positions, matching qualified candidates with healthcare institutions for long-term employment. Fees are typically structured as a percentage of the placed candidate's annual salary or as a flat fee per placement.
• Payrolling Administrative payroll service handling employment contracts, salary processing, social security contributions, and compliance for temporary and permanent healthcare staff placed at client organizations.
• On-site On-site staffing solution placing dedicated Medicalis consultants at client healthcare facilities to coordinate and manage ongoing recruitment and staffing needs on the customer's premises.
• Joint Venture Partnership model creating customized staffing solutions for healthcare institutions through collaborative business arrangements that jointly address staffing challenges and workforce planning.
• Medicalis Academy Healthcare-focused training and continuing education platform offering over 40 certified courses for healthcare professionals across clinical expertise, leadership, communication, risk prevention, emergency care, and wellness categories, delivered via Digital Learning Academy and in-person sessions, in partnership with Hotelis Academy.
• Try & Hire Trial and hire solution enabling healthcare institutions to evaluate temporary staff for 3 months before converting them to permanent hires without additional costs.
• EasyTime Time tracking and validation system for managing work hours of temporary healthcare staff deployed at client facilities, provided as part of Medicalis's staffing service infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• 85% of surveyed healthcare professionals in French-speaking Switzerland have used temporary staffing services
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Interiman GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedicalis is a brand under Interiman Group, the Swiss leader in HR and staffing services with 12 specialized brands and consolidated revenue of CHF 561 million in 2022. Interiman Group provides centralized digital infrastructure, shared services, and strategic direction while Medicalis maintains its healthcare specialization.
• Hotelis AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedicalis partnered with Hotelis Academy for the design and delivery of its Medicalis Academy training programs. Hotelis Academy, certified Eduqua, provides pedagogical expertise and training facilities at Morges (VD), while Medicalis contributes healthcare sector expertise. The partnership expanded from initial 5 courses in 2020 to over 40 courses by 2026.
• Switzerland Payroll ServicesminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnership for specialized payroll processing services for temporary workers, handling Swiss social security contributions and compliance requirements

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Coople: Coople is a Swiss digital staffing marketplace offering on-demand workforce matching across multiple sectors including healthcare and care services. It represents a platform-based emerging competitor that could erode Medicalis's traditional agency margin in commoditized shift work.
• Medical Solutions (UK-based international): Medical Solutions is a UK-origin healthcare staffing firm placing nurses and allied health professionals internationally. Although not Switzerland-based, it is comparable as a specialized medical recruiter with similar target customer and candidate profiles.

Direct peers

• Adecco Medical Switzerland: Adecco Medical is the healthcare-focused division of Adecco, the world's largest staffing firm, operating in Switzerland with similar temporary and permanent healthcare placement offerings directly competing with Medicalis for hospital, EMS, and home care clients.
• PageGroup Healthcare (Michael Page): PageGroup's healthcare division recruits medical professionals and healthcare executives on a permanent and interim basis in Switzerland, overlapping significantly with Medicalis's Recrutement Fixe and Personnel Temporaire offerings.
• Manpower Medical Switzerland: Manpower Medical (part of ManpowerGroup) provides specialized healthcare staffing in Switzerland covering nurses, caregivers, and medical support roles. It competes head-to-head with Medicalis for temp and perm placements into hospitals, EMS, and home care.
• Randstad Healthcare Switzerland: Randstad Healthcare is the medical staffing arm of Randstad in Switzerland, providing temporary and permanent placement of nurses, allied health, and medical support staff to Swiss hospitals, clinics, and care facilities, directly competing with Medicalis across the same customer segments.
• HAYS Life Sciences: HAYS operates a Life Sciences and healthcare recruitment practice in Switzerland placing clinical and scientific professionals, with a similar permanent and contract placement model that competes with Medicalis for skilled healthcare candidates.

Regional players

• Hays Healthcare UK: Hays Healthcare is the UK and Ireland healthcare recruitment arm of Hays, providing nursing and allied health staffing primarily in the British market. It is comparable in business model and candidate focus though operating in a different geography from Medicalis.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group Switzerland (parent context): Adecco Group is the global staffing leader and the parent of Adecco Medical in Switzerland. As a broad incumbent it dwarfs Medicalis but competes directly through its specialized healthcare brand for the same Swiss institutional clients.

Others

• JEM (Interiman Group freelance network): JEM is Interiman Group's freelance platform operating under the same parent as Medicalis. While not a direct competitor, it represents a sister brand addressing the same healthcare and social talent pool through a digital marketplace model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/medicaliss

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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