Sonoran Healthcare Staffing
Case studies
Invoice Factoring·Healthcare Staffing·Phoenix, AZ

How a healthcare staffing agency fixed its 84-day cash gap with a $2M factoring line.

Sonoran Healthcare Staffing was growing fast — and bleeding cash. Hospitals paid in 60 to 90 days, but nurses had to be paid weekly. Tasha was personally fronting payroll on a credit card.

$2M
Factoring facility
8
Days to first advance
84 days
Working-capital gap closed
+118%
Contractor headcount growth
The challenge

Sonoran placed travel nurses, respiratory therapists, and CNAs into 11 hospital systems across Arizona and New Mexico. Hospitals paid net-60 to net-90. Sonoran's nurses, by contract and by ethics, were paid weekly.

On a $2.4M annualized run rate, Tasha was carrying roughly $480,000 in receivables at any given time. She'd already maxed a $250K personal credit line and was floating payroll on a corporate AmEx. Her largest client had just offered her a 24-bed contract — she'd have to turn it down without working capital.

"We were profitable on paper and broke on Friday. Factoring didn't just fix the cash gap — it let us double the contract size we could chase."
Tasha Brooks · Co-founder & President, Sonoran Healthcare Staffing
The solution

Her broker submitted Sonoran to a healthcare-specialized factoring lender on the XFundingIntel network. The lender already understood hospital payment cycles and didn't blink at net-90 terms.

An A/R audit was completed in three business days. The lender approved an $850K starter facility at 1.8% per 30 days, with a roadmap to scale to $2M as Sonoran's invoiced volume grew.

First advance — 90% of $312K in eligible invoices — wired on Day 8. The facility scaled to the full $2M ceiling inside six months.

The results

Sonoran accepted the 24-bed contract and has since added two more hospital systems. Contractor headcount grew from 41 to 89 nurses on assignment.

Tasha repaid her personal credit line in full inside 90 days and has not personally floated a payroll since. The agency is on a $7.8M trailing twelve-month run rate.

In their words

"Factoring was the unlock. Without it, we are a $2M-a-year shop with a tired founder. With it, we are an $8M-a-year operating company hiring our second CFO."

Tasha Brooks, Co-founder & President
Broker economics

Broker earned 1.5% of monthly factored volume — recurring residual on the facility.

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