What Careanesth does

Careanesth AG is a privately held Swiss healthcare temporary staffing agency founded around 2000 and headquartered at Bahnhofstrasse 73 in Zürich. The company operates as an intermediary between qualified healthcare professionals (a network exceeding 10,000 individuals across nursing, anesthesia, ICU, emergency, surgical technology, physiotherapy, and medical practice assistance) and healthcare institutions, providing temporary personnel to hospitals, clinics, medical practices, Spitex organizations, long-term care facilities, and psychiatric facilities. Its core service portfolio is structured around four employment models: the Springer model (day-by-day flexible assignments), the Pool model (membership-based flexible scheduling), the Temporär-Freelancer model (weeks-to-months assignments within a single institution), and Pool-Outsourcing (full delegation of staff pool management to the institution).

The company's primary technology asset is OnlineDispo, a proprietary web-based planning and scheduling platform accessible at online.careanesth.com, which allows healthcare institutions to manage staff deployments, view availability, profiles, and assignments in real time. Supporting services include an express application process (Blitzbewerbung), career and leadership coaching, and continuing education via a partnership with temptraining. Careanesth holds the required Swiss Bewilligung Personalverleih and Personalvermittlung licences.

Careanesth generates revenue on a usage-based model, billing healthcare institutions for deployed personnel via calculable hourly rates with transparent pricing. It operates from seven Swiss locations (Zürich headquarters, Basel, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Lausanne, and a Visp backoffice), serves more than 500 institutions, and reports over 25 years of operating history. The company markets itself as the leading healthcare temporary staffing provider in Switzerland and uses a multi-channel approach (Google Ads, LinkedIn, SEO, organic social, blog content) to acquire both institutional customers and candidates. CEO Petra Fischer assumed leadership on 1 July 2025, succeeding a long-tenured prior leadership team. The firm is independent and privately held, with no disclosed parent company, PE/VC ownership, or funding rounds.

Name

Careanesth

Legal name

Careanesth AG

Website

https://careanesth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Careanesth AG is a Swiss healthcare temporary staffing agency connecting a network of 10,000+ qualified professionals with 500+ hospitals, clinics, Spitex organizations, and care facilities across Switzerland via its proprietary OnlineDispo scheduling platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Temporary Staffing

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (561320)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Temporary, On-Demand & Short-Notice Caregiver Staffing (HSABAMAE)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing services
• Temporary nurse placement
• Medical personnel leasing
• Healthcare workforce solutions
• Clinical staffing agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

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

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing Services: Careanesth provides temporary healthcare staffing solutions to hospitals, clinics, practices, Spitex organizations, and long-term care facilities. They charge healthcare institutions for the deployment of qualified nursing and medical personnel through various employment models including Springer (day assignments), Pool, and Freelancer arrangements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Careanesth AG is a Swiss healthcare temporary staffing agency that recruits qualified nurses, anesthesia/ICU/emergency specialists, physiotherapists, medical practice assistants (MPA), and other medical personnel and deploys them to hospitals, clinics, medical practices, Spitex (home care) organizations, and long-term care facilities. The company offers multiple flexible employment models (Springer day assignments, Pool membership, Freelancer multi-week assignments, and Pool-Outsourcing) supported by its proprietary OnlineDispo web-based scheduling platform.

Product overview

Careanesth is a healthcare staffing agency operating as a single unified service rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering consists of flexible personnel solutions connecting qualified healthcare professionals with hospitals, clinics, practices, and Spitex organizations in Switzerland. The primary technology product is OnlineDispo, a web-based planning software for managing assignments and availability in real-time. The service portfolio is organized around different employment models: the Springer Model (day-by-day flexible assignments), Pool Model (staff pool membership with tailored availability), Temporär-Freelancer Model (weeks-to-months temporary assignments in the same institution), and Pool-Outsourcing (complete staff pool outsourcing to institutions). Supporting services include an express application process (Blitzbewerbung) and career coaching/leadership advisory services. The company has served over 500 institutions and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals over 25 years, operating from offices in Zurich, Basel, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Lausanne, and Visp.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OnlineDispo: Web-based planning software for managing healthcare staff deployments, used by healthcare institutions to coordinate temporary staffing.
• PfleGERA

Products and services

• Temporary Healthcare Staffing Services Core staffing service placing qualified temporary healthcare professionals in hospitals, clinics, medical practices, Spitex organizations, and long-term care facilities across Switzerland, offered through Springer (day), Pool (flexible membership), and Freelancer (multi-week) models.
• OnlineDispo Proprietary web-based planning software that lets healthcare facilities manage staff deployments, view availability and profiles, and coordinate assignments with Careanesth's temporary professionals in real time.
• Pool-Outsourcing Outsourcing of entire staff pools to healthcare institutions, providing comprehensive workforce management of dedicated Careanesth-managed temporary personnel.
• Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching & Laufbahnberatung Career counseling, leadership coaching, and professional development advisory services offered to healthcare professionals working with or seeking assignments through Careanesth.

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• temptrainingminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2023temptraining is a training partner providing continuing education and professional development opportunities for careanesth temporary healthcare workers. A new regulation took effect September 1, 2023, optimizing training benefits for temporary staff.
• BrandNew AGminorOthersWeb design and graphics partner responsible for careanesth's visual branding and website design. Located at Badenerstrasse 47, 8004 Zürich.
• WebAdviceminorOthersDigital marketing partner handling Google Ads, paid social media marketing (B2C), paid LinkedIn marketing (B2B), and SEO optimization for careanesth.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• AMN Healthcare: US-based healthcare staffing specialist (nurses, allied health, physicians) — same temporary staffing business model as Careanesth but operating in a different geography; useful benchmark for healthcare staffing economics and scale dynamics.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Group: Swiss-headquartered global staffing leader operating Adecco Medical, which provides healthcare temporary staffing in Switzerland including nursing and allied health — directly overlapping with Careanesth's core offering at much larger scale.
• ManpowerGroup: Global staffing incumbent with a presence in Switzerland providing temporary healthcare personnel to hospitals and care facilities; broad portfolio overlaps with Careanesth's healthcare staffing focus.
• PageGroup (Michael Page): Global recruitment and temporary staffing group with Swiss offices placing healthcare professionals; competes with Careanesth for mid- and senior-level clinical and administrative healthcare roles.
• Robert Half: Global specialized staffing firm with Swiss operations focusing on professional and administrative placements; comparable business model to Careanesth in providing temporary professionals on a bill-rate basis.
• Randstad: Major global staffing firm with a Swiss operation and dedicated healthcare division offering temporary nursing and allied-health placements, competing for the same institutional clients as Careanesth across Swiss cantons.
• Hays: Global professional staffing firm with established Swiss operations covering healthcare and life sciences placements; comparable to Careanesth in its professional-temp placement model, though broader in scope.

Others

• Swissstaffing: Swiss staffing services industry association representing temporary staffing agencies including healthcare; adjacent ecosystem participant that sets industry standards and advocacy relevant to Careanesth's regulatory positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/careanesth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/careanesth

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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