About SOA Healthcare
Built by nocturnists, for community hospitals.
A physician-led answer to a financial and operational problem the locum industry has refused to solve.
Our mission
To create a sustainable, physician-led model for nocturnist coverage that eliminates the dependency on expensive locum agencies.
Community hospitals are the backbone of healthcare for most of New England — and they are the ones most squeezed by the cost of overnight coverage. SOA exists to change that, one credentialed shift at a time.
Origin
Why we built SOA.
SOA started with a simple observation: the nocturnists working the same overnight shifts at the same New England community hospitals were being billed back to those hospitals at two and three times their actual pay — by agencies that added no clinical value and very little operational value.
Meanwhile, the hospitals themselves were straining under nocturnist budgets that ballooned every year, struggling to maintain continuity of care, and re-credentialing the same physicians at multiple sites without any shared infrastructure.
A group of practicing nocturnists came together to build a cooperative alternative: a shared physician pool, cross-credentialed across partner hospitals, with transparent pricing and a telenocturnist capability for census surges. SOA Healthcare is the result.
Our values
What we hold ourselves to.
Quality
Every SOA physician is board-certified or board-eligible, peer-vetted, and committed to the standard of care community hospitals expect overnight.
Accessibility
Coverage decisions are made with community hospitals in mind — the places where rural and suburban patients actually receive care.
Physician autonomy
We are physician-owned and physician-led. Clinical decisions, scheduling, and policy are set by working clinicians, not by external investors.
Hospital partnership
We win when our partner hospitals win — lower coverage costs, stable rosters, and predictable budgets are the metrics we hold ourselves to.
Want to learn more about SOA?
Hospital administrators and nocturnists alike — we'd love to hear from you.