Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Prescott Valley, AZ
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Prescott Valley, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.
Provider supply
Who practices in Prescott Valley today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
569
Physicians
362
Nurse practitioners
140
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Prescott Valley metro added 10 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 2 physicians, and 3 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Arizona side of the Prescott Valley metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Prescott Valley-area healthcare employers.
Ambulatory care
4,943 employed across 582 sites.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See Arizona pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
53 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Prescott Valley area.
0 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
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Hiring in Prescott Valley?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the local market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.