The CEO Performance and Search Committee heard a status update from AMN Healthcare on the hospital CEO search, with the search firm reporting outreach to just over 200 prospective candidates and a roughly 15% response rate while the final service agreement remained unsigned.

"We are still waiting on the finalized agreement, which we expect this week," said Mick Ruhl of AMN Healthcare, who briefed the committee on the firm's biweekly update plan and explained that execution of the agreement will formally trigger the full launch of recruitment work. Ruhl said AMN has been operating a "soft launch"—responding to inbound interest while proactively contacting prospects—and will provide high-level pipeline slides to the committee at two-week intervals.

The committee discussed timing and communications. Harsham of AMN said the firm had "reached out to just over 200 prospects" and that the current response rate from that outreach was "about 15%." AMN representatives said they will protect candidate confidentiality in committee briefings by referring to individuals by letter or number when necessary.

Committee members pressed about the contract status and outreach to people who had expressed interest months earlier. The committee's chair said Metro procurement is completing internal signatures and acknowledged that procurement timing has delayed some AMN activities; AMN said two additional signatures were expected before the end of the week. The chair and AMN agreed AMN could notify previously interested candidates as soon as the agreement and search record were in place and will provide links and a point of contact once that occurs.

AMN described the prospectus—the combined position description and organizational overview that will be used with candidates—as the committee's "North Star." Ruhl said AMN will prepare an 80–90% draft prospectus for the committee's review within roughly a week so members can submit edits before the prospectus is used more broadly. The committee asked that the draft prospectus and the April 2025 job description be circulated in advance of the next meeting so members can be prepared to discuss and finalize input.

Procedural business recorded at the meeting included approval of the minutes from the Dec. 10, 2025 meeting and a motion to adjourn; both were accepted by voice vote. The committee scheduled its next standing meeting in two weeks.

Next steps specified at the meeting: AMN expects to receive the remaining signatures and create a search record this week; AMN will distribute links and contact information for candidate submission once the agreement is in hand; and the prospectus and April 2025 job description will be circulated to committee members ahead of the next meeting for review.