Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Cumberland, MD
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Cumberland, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Cumberland, MD-WV 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 Cumberland today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Cumberland, MD-WV area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
214
Physicians
165
Nurse practitioners
55
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Cumberland metro added 5 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 0 physicians, and 1 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: Maryland side of the Cumberland metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Cumberland-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
2,136 employed.
Ambulatory care
1,712 employed across 128 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 Maryland pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
2 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Cumberland 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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Hiring in Cumberland?
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.