Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · South Bend, IN
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in South Bend, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI 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 South Bend today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
947
Physicians
405
Nurse practitioners
73
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the South Bend metro added 16 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 1 physicians, and 7 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: Indiana side of the South Bend metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for South Bend-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
6,972 employed, down 5.3% year over year. Average wages down 1.6% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
8,018 employed across 497 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 Indiana pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
1 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the South Bend 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.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in South Bend?
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.