Sixty-two health professionals are on stand-by to be deployed across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District, following a COVID-19 recruitment drive.
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The call-out to find 600 more personnel was made in the first week of April, and videos have been released to spread the campaign's aim.
MLHD people and culture director Helen Emmerson said the health district had been happy with the response.
"To date we've had 123 people register interest in working with Murrumbidgee LHD - 101 of those are appointable," she said.
"Forty nurses have applied, and we have 39 allied health [professionals], we have eight medical staff and the others are general skilled staff - all valuable health workers."
Ms Emmerson said 62 people had been interviewed and added to a pool that will be deployable where need arises, and that one nurse in Tumut had been invited to apply for a permanent role.
"We were able to do that in three days," she said.
"That is unheard of - typically it would take about 40 days.
"We've adapted our recruitment processes ... through a centralised team."
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Ms Emmerson hoped the additional temporary workers would stay on with MLHD when the pandemic is over.
"We're hoping we can have those people transfer into full-time roles," she said. "We have vacancy levels at about that number [of 62], and it would be really wonderful if they were interested.
"They have been made work-ready."
There were no new COVID-19 cases detected in our region on Thursday.
