Acacium Group, backed by private equity firm Onex Corp., announced on September 8 that it acquired Sumo Medical Staffing for an undisclosed price. 

Headquartered in Draper, Utah, SUMO Medical Staffing is a locum tenens agency dedicated to placing qualified physicians and advanced practice providers in temporary and permanent positions across the United States. The company places medical professionals in specialties including psychiatry, internal medicine, hospitalist, family medicine, ER/urgent care and pediatrics. 

Acacium Group is one of the United Kingdom’s largest healthcare workforce solutions and services partner dedicated to offering staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. Acacium Group was acquired by Onex Corp. on Apr 17, 2020. 

SUMO will continue to be led by its founding owners, Jeff Parker, Kevin Anderson and Boyd Waters. SUMO will operate as part of Acacium Group’s U.S. Healthcare Staffing Division under Chief Operating Officer, Christopher Brink. 

According to data captured from the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 22nd healthcare staffing transaction of 2023. This year has been slightly more active than last year, when there were 21 healthcare staffing deals reported between January 1, 2022, and September 8, 2022.