Jackson Healthcare® is a family of highly specialized healthcare staffing, search and technology companies. With a mission to improve the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone it touches, it helps healthcare facilities across the country serve more than 10 million patients each year. Backed by over 2,000 associates and more than 15,000 clinician providers covering all 50 states, Jackson Healthcare is one of the largest U.S. healthcare staffing companies with more than $2 billion in annual revenue. In addition to being Great Place to Work certified, it is consistently named an employer of choice, having been nationally recognized as a best workplace in healthcare, a best workplace for women and a best workplace for millennials, as well as being named among the healthiest employers. 

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In her role as Senior Vice President, Corporate Real Estate, Leslie Day-Harrell is responsible for the company’s rapidly expanding physical footprint in Alpharetta, Georgia, including the current $100 million expansion project.

Day-Harrell is leading the Italian Renaissance-style corporate expansion designed to accommodate 1,400 new associates in 306,000 additional square feet. Beyond the current corporate expansion, her responsibilities include facilities and property management, leading property purchases and oversight of corporate amenities including the gym/spa, dining facilities, health clinic, and more.

Day-Harrell has been managing corporate real estate in Atlanta since 1994 and has earned the Real Property Administrator (RPA) and Certified Property Manager (CPM) designations. She has been the recipient of multiple national and local awards in the property management industry. Prior to joining [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc), Leslie Day-Harrell was a senior property manager with Childress Klein Properties.

Leslie Day-Harrell

Richard L. Jackson serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc), a family of highly-specialized healthcare staffing and technology companies. [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) is the third largest U.S. healthcare staffing firm by revenue, and is 14th among Atlanta’s largest private companies.

For the past 39 years, Jackson has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing more than 25 healthcare companies. His ownership and operation of staffing companies, surgery centers, practice management companies, clinics and hospitals have endowed him with the depth and breadth required to thrive in the ever-changing healthcare environment.

Jackson has demonstrated a unique ability to anticipate industry trends, identify underserved niches and create industry-leading companies. Jackson partners with industry thought leaders and continues to play a lead role in transforming the way healthcare is delivered.

As a former foster child, he is driven by a personal mission to inject hope and opportunity into the lives of underserved children, Jackson actively supports numerous local and international charitable organizations. He is a co-founder of FaithBridge Foster Care and serves as its Chairman. Jackson founded goBeyondProfit, a first-of-its-kind business leader-to-leader initiative to make giving back the norm in Georgia.

Richard L. Jackson

Leslie Kurtz serves as Chief Financial Officer for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc). In this role, she is responsible for leading the accounting, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and risk management operations of the enterprise, including financial oversight of the [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) family of companies.

With more than 30 years of progressive financial and operations experience, Kurtz has deep expertise in creating systems and processes to support rapidly growing businesses and a proven track record of driving top-line growth, operational excellence and sustained profitability.

Before joining [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc), Kurtz held executive leadership positions in the talent management and healthcare industries, most recently serving as CFO at MedQuest Associates. Prior to that, she worked with multiple companies in accounting and operational finance leadership roles, including Arthur Andersen, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Irwin & Browning and Right Management.

Leslie Kurtz

Anne Patton serves as senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc), and is responsible for strategy and execution of corporate branding, marketing communications, content marketing, digital marketing, research, and associate communications and engagement that support the growth of [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) and its family of specialized healthcare staffing, search and technology companies.

With more than 20 years of experience, Patton has developed, managed and executed strategies across an array of marketing disciplines—from branding and positioning, to analyst relations, public relations and advertising, and from digital marketing and thought leadership, to product/service launches and customer marketing campaigns. Additional areas of focus have included M&A communications, and support for evolving sales enablement and customer experience functions.

Anne Patton

Josh Berman serves as vice president of corporate development for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc). In this role, he is responsible for leading investments, mergers and acquisitions, new partnerships and other strategic corporate development initiatives for the company.

He also is general manager of the [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc)-backed non-profit organization Connecting Kids With Care. Focused on expanding access to quality healthcare, it connects a network of medical organizations and professionals, who donate their time, to serve orphans and other underserved people around the world. Since inception, Connecting Kids With Care has enabled more than 2,000 children from over 100 humanitarian organizations in 24 countries to receive the care they need.

Prior to these roles, Berman spent his career acquiring, starting and growing business units in the technology, consumer services and finance industries—working with organizations that include Microsoft Research, [LVMH](/org/lvmh), [Société Générale](/org/societe-generale), GLG and Man Group PLC.

Josh Berman

As executive vice president of human resources, Robyn Smith brings more than 25 years of experience to her role leading [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc)’s corporate HR team. In her position, she sets the strategic direction for talent acquisition, benefits, training and development, career pathing, succession planning, diversity and inclusion, compensation, rewards programs and workplace policies. Since joining the organization, Smith has been a driving force in expanding its extensive associate professional and well-being offerings.

During her tenure, [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) became “Great Place to Work” certified and made its debut on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Healthcare and Biopharma, Best Workplaces for Women and Best Workplaces for Millennials lists. Locally, [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) and its family of staffing, search and technology companies have appeared on Atlanta’s best places to work and healthiest workplace lists.

Robyn Smith

Keith Jennings is responsible for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc)’s multi-faceted charitable outreach, which includes deepening external partnerships and maximizing associate engagement in community service efforts. This includes advancing the company’s community impact platform, called LoveLifts, with a special focus on the organization’s two priorities: access to healthcare and children’s wellbeing.

Jennings previously served as Jackson’s Vice President of Corporate Marketing spearheading initiatives designed to lift [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc)’s brand, culture and companies. He continues to support the launch and scale-up of new entities and special projects.

Prior to Jackson, Jennings served nine years as head of planning and marketing for a two-hospital health system including direct oversight of its certificate of need applications, corporate compliance program and medical office properties. Before that he worked with three healthcare contract management firms, specializing in orthopedics, occupational medicine and geriatric psychiatry.

Keith Jennings

Shane Jackson is president of [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc), a family of 16 companies and more than 1,500 associates specializing in temporary and permanent healthcare staffing.

Since taking the role in 2013, Jackson has consistently led the more than $1 billion private enterprise to more than double the industry’s annual growth rate.

Jackson has also served as president of LocumTenens.com, [Patient Placement Systems](/org/patient-placement-systems) and NextStart Capital. He has been named among the 100 most influential people in the staffing industry by [Staffing Industry Analysts](/org/staffing-industry-analysts) and as one of the most accomplished young business leaders in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

He is a primary guiding force for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc)’s mission of improving the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone it touches.  Jackson champions the company’s community impact program, LoveLifts, which supports access to healthcare and the wellbeing of disadvantaged children.

In 2016, Jackson spearheaded the launch of a non-profit venture within the [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) family. Connecting Kids with Care™ connects volunteer doctors and nurses to thousands of global orphans with free, tech-enabled healthcare.

Jackson is an advocate for the power of business leaders as a positive force for people and the community. He speaks and writes on the topic, and has authored a book, “Fostering Culture,” on intentionally nurturing a values-led culture.

Jackson’s current non-profit board commitments focus on education and access to healthcare, including Junior Achievement of Atlanta, the Goodman Institute and serving as Chair of the Health & Wellness Policy Committee for the [Georgia Chamber of Commerce](/org/georgia-chamber-of-commerce). He is Vice Chairman of the state’s leader-led goBeyondProfit business initiative that promotes the belief that giving back is good for business and good for Georgia.

Shane Jackson

Jay D. Mitchell serves as general counsel for [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc). In his position, he is responsible for all legal affairs for the organization. He also provides legal services support for the [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) family of staffing, search and technology companies.

Mitchell joined [Jackson Healthcare](/org/jackson-healthcare-llc) from [King & Spalding](/org/king-spalding) in Atlanta, where he served as senior counsel. Prior to that, he worked for [Piedmont Healthcare](/org/piedmont-healthcare), where he held the positions of chief compliance officer, chief legal officer and corporate secretary. Other roles Mitchell has held include serving as senior attorney at [HCA Healthcare](/org/hcahealthcare) in Nashville and working in private law practice.

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