Start with your state
U.S. hospital hiring is dominated by ~120 large multi-hospital systems (CommonSpirit, HCA, Trinity, Ascension, Kaiser, Sutter, AdventHealth, etc.) plus a long tail of regional and standalone systems. In any given state, 3–10 systems do most of the hiring.
Browse hospitals hiring in your state directly:
- California — Kaiser, Sutter, Dignity Health, Cedars-Sinai, UCSF, Stanford, Scripps.
- Texas — Memorial Hermann, Methodist, HCA, Baylor Scott & White, Texas Health, UT Southwestern.
- Florida — AdventHealth, HCA, Baptist Health, BayCare, Orlando Health, Memorial Healthcare.
- New York — Northwell, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, Montefiore.
- Pennsylvania — UPMC, Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health, Geisinger.
Every other state has its own page — Waypoint aggregates openings from each state's major systems, refreshed nightly. Pick yours from the state filter on the home page.
Identify the systems doing the most hiring
Once you're on a state page, sort by hospital system. Two filters tell you the most:
- Active openings count — a system with 800 openings in your state is hiring across many disciplines. A system with 40 is selective right now.
- Specialty mix — a system with 200 ICU openings has volume in critical care; one with 50 ICU + 200 ortho is biased toward surgical services.
You can also browse by system directly if you have a target employer in mind — Waypoint indexes every active opening across that system's facilities nationally.
Check what each hospital pays
Before you spend 30 minutes filling out an application, look up the system's pay range. We publish hospital-by-hospital pay scales at jobs.waypointrecruit.com/wages — sourced from each hospital's own job postings, refreshed nightly. Sort by system or by state.
A useful comparison: in most metro areas, the academic medical center pays modestly less in base wage than the large for-profit system (e.g. HCA), but offers better benefits, retirement match, and pension. Net comp often comes out similar; cash flow does not.
Apply directly to the hospital — skip the middleman
Every job on Waypoint links straight to the hospital's official application system (Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, Greenhouse — varies by employer). No agency markup, no recruiter taking a cut of your offer, no contractor wrapper.
If you prefer the recruiter route, the "Recruiter" button next to each role connects you with a Waypoint recruiter who specializes in your discipline. Free to candidates.
A note on “near me”
Most hospital ATSs handle commute radius poorly — a search for "jobs within 25 miles" on a hospital's own careers site often returns inconsistent results. The simplest reliable approach: search by state, then narrow by city or by specific hospital. Waypoint's state pages list every hospital system operating in that state; from there, you can click into individual facilities.
If you're open to relocating, the cross-grid pages (e.g. ICU jobs in Texas, ED jobs in Florida) let you scan multiple metros in a single specialty at once.