Established in 1987, Merritt, Hawkins & Associates is the nation's leading physician search and consulting firm. Since its inception, Merritt, Hawkins & Associates has conducted over 30,000 physician search assignments, and currently conducts over 2,500 searches per year. Through offices in Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Salt Lake City, Utah, and Irvine, California, that employ over 700 people, Merritt, Hawkins & Associates works in all 50 states recruiting physicians in all specialties, as well as select allied health care professionals.

Merritt, Hawkins & Associates is proud to be the endorsed staffing provider of 22 state hospital associations and to be nationally acknowledged as the leader in our field in such prestigious publications as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, USA Today, Modern Healthcare and Hospitals & Health Networks. Merritt, Hawkins & Associates is the founding member of The MHA Group ®, a national organization of health care staffing and consulting firms that provides a total staffing solution for hospitals, medical groups, government entities and all other health care providers.