USr Awards & Recognition

List of Top Staffing Firms
2011 NEXT Awards
USr Healthcare named as Inaugural NEXT Award Winner

USr Healthcare has been named as the 2011 winner of the “Market Mover – Healthcare” category at the inaugural NEXT Awards. The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Entrepreneur Center presented these awards to recognize the accomplishments of companies and individual entrepreneurs in five areas of business especially important to the Nashville economy: health care; technology; digital media and entertainment; sustainability and alternative energy; and social enterprise.

“Our thriving entrepreneurial community has contributed significantly to the economic prosperity of Middle Tennessee,” said Chamber President & CEO Ralph Schulz. “We are proud to be able to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of these businesses and individuals.”

2011 Top Small Business
   #1 in Nashville
   #5 in Southeast
USr Healthcare was named as the 2011 Top Small Business in the South for the Nashville market and fifth in all markets in the South by Business Leader Media. The businesses selected were ranked based on a combination of factors, including percentage of sales generated in their local market, revenue growth, businesses achievements and civic contributions. These companies represent the very best of the Top 300 Small Businesses of the South, which were unveiled during Business Leader award ceremonies held in June.

For the past 20 years, Business Leader Media has provided local business intelligence to readers in several Southeast markets. Its products include magazines, websites, email newsletters, and a number of networking and awards events for businesses, ranging from the top small businesses of the South to women leaders of excellence, from catalyst entrepreneurs to business leaders of the year.

Listen to the interview with Mark Dixon, president of USr Healthcare.

SIA - 2011 National Best Staffing Firm To Work For
USr Healthcare has been named “Best Staffing Firm to Work For” in the United States among firms with 51-200 employees.

Staffing Industry Analysts, the leading research and analysis firm covering the contingent workforce, and Staffing Industry Review Magazine sponsor the award, which was announced at the 2011 Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum

The award is based on a survey conducted in conjunction with Quantum Workplace, an independent research firm that specializes in employee engagement. Quantum Workplace anonymously surveyed USr Healthcare employees in a variety of categories to determine its desirability as an employer.

“Receiving the “Best Staffing Firm to Work For” recognition is truly an honor. It inspires a continued focus to the principles on which USr Healthcare was founded. USr is proud to have a culture that cultivates innovation, respect and success. We believe in providing a workplace where our employees feel valued and where they can excel. This award is a testament to the dynamic employees who help make USr one of the country’s premier staffing firms,” said USr President Mark Dixon.

USr Healthcare previously was recognized by the Nashville Business Journal as the “Best Place to Work” across all industries in 2008 and has been named the Nashville Business Journal’s “Top Staffing Firm” for eight consecutive years.

Future 50 – Winner 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber's small business department are committed to the growth and development of small business in Middle Tennessee.

The Music City Future 50 program was initiated in 1992 as a way to underscore that commitment by identifying and recognizing the 50 fastest-growing small businesses in the Nashville area. 

Nomination criteria for the Music City Future 50 are based upon past and projected revenue and employment growth, and can be viewed by clicking here.

Since the Music City Future 50 program began in 1992, it has honored 751 companies, with the only tie in the history of the event occurring in 1996. Of those 751 honorees, 29 companies have been honored as Music City Future 50 Hall of Fame companies, denoting five total Future 50 wins.


Best Places to Work - Winner 2006 and 2008
#1 Best Place to Work in 2008 out of all Nashville companies!



In 2008, not only was USr Healthcare awarded the Best Places to Work title for Nashville area businesses in its size category (for a second time), but was also named as the number one Best Place to Work out of all nominated companies based on anonymously submitted employee surveys.

Awarded by the Nashville Business Journal, the Best Places to Work highlights companies that energize and engage employees and create an environment where productivity improves, sales grow and clients walk away happy. They've teamed up with Quantum Market Research to shine the light on the Middle Tennessee companies that are leading the way.
INC 5000 - 2008, 2009 and 2010

2010

Ranked No. 1,944 in Inc 5000

Ranked No. 17 in the Top50 Businesses in Nashville-Davidon-Murfreeboro, TN


The Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

2009

Ranked No. 3,193 in Inc 5000

Ranked No. 39 in the Top50 Businesses in Nashville-Davidon-Murfreeboro, TN

Ranked No. 30 in the Top 100 Human Resources Companies


The Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

2008

Ranked No. 573 in Inc 500

Ranked No. 8 in the Top 50 Businesses in Nashville-Davidon-Murfreeboro, TN

Ranked No. 30 in the Top 100 Human Resources Companies


The Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

Fast 50- by Business TN – Winner 2005
Highlights the 50 companies with the highest revenue-growth rates are listed and profiled in a special feature published in an issue of Business Tennessee magazine. The magazine is distributed monthly to more than 40,000 company owners, business professionals and government officials across the state.

To be considered, Fast50 nominees must have been in business for at least three years, generate more than $750,000 of revenue, employ five or more people, be independent and privately owned (not publicly traded or a subsidiary) and be headquartered in Tennessee.

Best in Business Awards – Finalist 2005
The Nashville Business Journal Best in Business Awards have recognized the accomplishments and contributions of more than 300 area businesses.
USr Supported Charities
Major Fundraiser:
Kevin Turner Foundation for ALS Research
Boy Scouts of America (W M Dixon was a Sponsor Chairman)
Men of Valor Prison Ministries
Sponsor:
Tennessee Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Minnie Pearl Foundation (Cancer Research)
Music City Tennis Invitational (Vanderbilt Children's Hospital)
St. Jude's Celebrity Open (Golf Tournament)
Brentwood High Soccer (Girls & Boys)
Brentwood High Softball
Nashville Fast Pitch Softball (Wild Things, Thunderbolts & Tennessee Thunder)
Brentwood Civitan Softball
Mobile Medical Disaster Relief
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation (Golf Tournament)
Donor:
American Heart Association
American Red Cross
BHS DECA
Brentwood Academy Volleyball & Softball
Brentwood Fraternal Order of Police
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Junior Achievement
Liam's Run (St Jude's Hospital)
Nashville Ballet
Nashville Fraternal Order of Police
Nashville Rescue Mission
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
SCAD Soccer
Shriners Circus
Stedson Baseball
Trevecca Nazarene University Lady Trojans Softball
Tuscaloosa Tornado Relief Challenge
YoungLife / Brentwood
YoungLife / Cookeville
Other Local Charities