Healthcare Recruiting · Davenport, IA

Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Davenport, grounded in the metro's real numbers.

We track the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL 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.

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Provider supply

Who practices in Davenport today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

513

Physicians

282

Nurse practitioners

130

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Davenport metro added 17 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 1 physicians, and 15 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: Iowa side of the Davenport metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Davenport-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

2,943 employed, down 0.6% year over year. Average wages up 6.6% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

5,639 employed across 434 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 Iowa pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

33 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Davenport area.

1 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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