Top healthcare staffing agencies in Maryland, ranked by ChatGPT answers

Places ChatGPT showed

• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency
• Critical Connection, Inc. · 4.7★ · Employment agency
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• Upscale Staffing · 4.5★ · Employment agency
• CNE Medical Staffing · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• PRN Healthcare · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• BrightStar Care · 4.9★ · Home health care service

If you're looking for healthcare staffing agencies in Maryland, there are several strong options, but the right one depends heavily on whether you're a healthcare professional looking for work or a facility looking to hire staff.

Based on current Maryland staffing listings, healthcare specialization, and available local business information, I'd put these on your shortlist:

• American Medical Staffing — Hunt Valley. A Maryland-based, nurse-founded agency offering travel, contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent healthcare staffing. It also appears in state records of licensed temporary healthcare staffing agencies.
• Critical Connection, Inc. — Rockville. Particularly relevant for therapy and allied-health professionals, including travel/contract and permanent placements.
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — Owings Mills. Offers RNs, LPNs, CNAs and other clinical professionals, with a notable focus on school-based healthcare staffing.
• Upscale Staffing — Greenbelt. Healthcare-focused staffing covering permanent, travel/contract, per-diem and home-health positions.
• CNE Medical Staffing — Frederick. Offers temporary, permanent, travel and per-diem staffing and executive search.
• PRN Healthcare — Bethesda. A national healthcare staffing company with a Maryland office and staffing across nursing and allied-health specialties.
• BrightStar Care — Columbia. Particularly relevant for home health and medical staffing, including temporary, per-diem, contract and permanent staffing.

If you're looking for a job

For travel nursing, the current Maryland Best of Staffing listings include Express Employment Professionals, Insight Global, and The Judge Group.

For per-diem nursing, Express Employment Professionals is currently listed as a 2026 Maryland Best of Staffing winner for both client and talent categories.

For locum tenens physicians/advanced practitioners, The Judge Group is currently listed among Maryland's 2026 Best of Staffing locum-tenens winners.

One important point: Maryland's healthcare staffing market is broad, and agencies specialize differently—RN/LPN/CNA, travel nursing, allied health, therapy, physicians/locums, home health, and school nursing aren't interchangeable. Maryland's health department has also noted that staffing agencies placing healthcare professionals are subject to credentialing/licensure requirements, so it's worth checking an agency's current credentials before accepting an assignment.

If you tell me your profession (RN, LPN, CNA, respiratory therapist, medical assistant, physician, etc.) and whether you're looking for travel, per-diem, or permanent work, I can narrow this to the most relevant Maryland agencies and compare pay, specialties, benefits, and current openings.

Places ChatGPT showed

• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency
• Access Nursing Services · 4.2★ · Home health care service
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• CNE Medical Staffing · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• We Care Staffing · 5.0★ · Recruiter

If you’re evaluating agencies as a Maryland hospital or long-term-care operator, I’d build the shortlist around agencies that can demonstrate Maryland licensing/compliance, meaningful clinical coverage, and the staffing model you need—not simply general staffing-agency reviews. Maryland’s Office of Health Care Quality oversees and licenses healthcare staff agencies.

Agencies worth putting on your shortlist

• American Medical Staffing — Hunt Valley. Nurse-founded and Maryland-based, with staffing for acute-care facilities and other healthcare settings. A potentially strong option when you need a sizable clinical staffing partner rather than a small local registry.
• Access Nursing Services — Lutherville. Particularly relevant to your question because it explicitly provides supplemental staffing to hospitals and long-term-care facilities. Its models include per diem, contract, temp-to-hire and permanent placement, with credentialing that includes skills assessment, drug screening, background checks and employment verification.
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — Owings Mills. Supplies RNs, LPNs, CNAs and CMTs, including for long-term care, rehabilitation and hospital environments. This makes it worth considering if your needs span both hospital and post-acute settings.
• CNE Medical Staffing — Frederick. Offers staffing across hospitals/clinics as well as subacute and long-term-care, rehabilitation and other specialized environments.
• We Care Staffing — Germantown. Positions itself as a partner for hospitals, clinics, long-term-care facilities and other healthcare providers, so it may be useful for facilities in Montgomery County and the DC-area market.
• All's Well Health Care Services — A longer-established healthcare staffing company offering nurses, allied-health professionals and therapists, with employer-focused recruiting and workforce-assessment services.
• Priority Healthcare Staffing Solutions — A Maryland-focused agency that explicitly serves hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living, behavioral-health and rehabilitation facilities. It advertises per-diem and contract staffing and says standard requests can generally be filled within 24–48 hours. Those turnaround figures are the company's own claims, so I'd verify them during an RFP.
• AMN Healthcare / Nursefinders — A larger national option if you need substantial travel, local/per-diem or multi-specialty nursing capacity. AMN says its offerings include travel, local/per-diem, international and strike staffing.

How I'd evaluate them

For a hospital or nursing-home procurement process, I would compare agencies on:

One useful independent benchmark: ClearlyRated's 2026 Maryland nursing-per-diem results identify Express Employment Professionals as a Best of Staffing client and talent winner, although that award by itself doesn't establish that it's the right fit for a particular hospital or LTC facility.

For a hospital, I'd prioritize agencies with demonstrable acute-care/critical-care depth and large per-diem/travel pools. For long-term care, I'd put more weight on reliable CNA/GNA/LPN coverage, overnight/weekend fill rates, and low cancellation rates.

If you tell me the Maryland area (e.g., Baltimore, DC suburbs, Eastern Shore) and whether you're staffing a hospital, nursing home, or both, I can narrow this to a 5-agency procurement shortlist with contact information, specialties, Maryland licensing information, and available evidence on pricing/fill rates.

Places ChatGPT showed

• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency

If you’re a nurse looking for travel, contract, per-diem, or permanent work in Maryland, I’d compare several agencies rather than rely on a single “best” list. Here are the ones that stand out based on Maryland presence, travel-nursing offerings, job volume, and available agency information.

The agencies I'd compare first

American Medical Staffing (AMS) is particularly relevant because it's actually headquartered in Maryland and is nurse-founded/nurse-led. It staffs RNs, LPNs and other clinicians and offers travel and contract staffing. American Medical Staffing

Aya Healthcare has a very large national inventory and lets nurses search jobs, view pay packages and review facility information through its platform. Its Maryland listings include travel and other nursing opportunities.

AMN Healthcare is another major option, particularly if you're interested in large hospital systems or multiple specialties. Its current Maryland travel listings include ICU, ER, OR, CVICU, L&D, NICU and other specialties.

PRN Healthcare is worth comparing if you want a mix of travel, local contract, per-diem and permanent opportunities and prefer having a Maryland office. PRN Healthcare

We Care Staffing and CNE Medical Staffing are smaller Maryland-based alternatives. Their smaller scale may be worth considering if recruiter accessibility and a more local relationship are priorities. We Care Staffing CNE Medical Staffing

One important point about "best"

For travel nursing, the same agency can produce very different results depending on the specific assignment. Before signing, compare the actual package rather than just the agency name:

American Medical Staffing (AMS) is particularly relevant because it's actually headquartered in Maryland and is nurse-founded/nurse-led. It staffs RNs, LPNs and other clinicians and offers travel and contract staffing. American Medical Staffing

Aya Healthcare has a very large national inventory and lets nurses search jobs, view pay packages and review facility information through its platform. Its Maryland listings include travel and other nursing opportunities.

AMN Healthcare is another major option, particularly if you're interested in large hospital systems or multiple specialties. Its current Maryland travel listings include ICU, ER, OR, CVICU, L&D, NICU and other specialties.

PRN Healthcare is worth comparing if you want a mix of travel, local contract, per-diem and permanent opportunities and prefer having a Maryland office. PRN Healthcare

• Hourly taxable rate
• Weekly housing stipend
• Non-taxable meal/incidentals stipend
• Guaranteed hours
• Overtime rate
• Health insurance start date and cost
• 401(k) match
• Cancellation policy
• Extension bonus
• Travel reimbursement
• Floating requirements
• Shift/weekend requirements
• Whether the hospital is a strike/rapid-response facility

Maryland is also part of the Nurse Licensure Compact, which can make working there easier for nurses who already hold a qualifying multistate license. Trusted Health specifically notes this for Maryland travel nurses.

If you tell me your nursing specialty (ICU, ER, OR, L&D, Med-Surg, etc.), years of experience, and whether you want Baltimore/DC/suburbs/anywhere in Maryland, I can compare the agencies and current Maryland travel contracts/pay ranges for your situation.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency

If by “fastest” you mean agencies that explicitly advertise same-day, emergency, or sub-24/48-hour shift coverage in Maryland, these stand out. There isn't a reliable public dataset ranking agencies by actual average fill time, so I’d treat the times below as agency-reported, not independently verified.

• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — 2–4 hour deployment for substitute nurses after an emergency request; 24/7 on-call availability. It serves Maryland and has a headquarters in Owings Mills.
• Healora Staffing — advertises <24-hour average dispatch, a 98% fill rate, 24-hour dispatch, and same-day call-out coverage. Its Maryland focus is particularly Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
• Priority Healthcare Staffing Solutions — advertises 12–24 hours for emergency/crisis coverage and 24–48 hours for standard requests, with a response within hours after submitting a facility request.
• Corvana Med Staffing — reports a typical fill time under 24 hours, including per-diem nursing and allied-health shifts, with a same-business-day recruiter response.
• SafeCare Healthcare Staffing — maintains a bench of vetted professionals for short-notice coverage and specifically advertises 24-hour call-out coverage.
• American Medical Staffing — a larger Maryland-based staffing firm with 24/7 operations and facility staffing across multiple healthcare settings.
• ShiftMed — its Maryland workforce platform is designed for real-time filling of nursing vacancies, using credentialed per-diem nurses.

If you're a clinician looking for shifts

For picking up shifts quickly, I'd particularly investigate ShiftMed, Eaglewings, Healora, American Medical Staffing, and PRN Healthcare. The important distinction is that an agency can have a very fast facility fill time without necessarily having lots of immediately available shifts for a particular CNA, GNA, LPN, or RN.

If you tell me your license (CNA/GNA, LPN, RN, etc.) and Maryland area (Baltimore, PG County, Montgomery County, Eastern Shore, etc.), I can narrow this to agencies that are currently posting per-diem shifts and compare their pay, shift availability, and onboarding speed.

Places ChatGPT showed

• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• Access Nursing Services · 4.2★ · Home health care service
• Maxim Healthcare Baltimore, MD Regional Office · 4.0★ · Home health care service
• BrightStar Care · 3.7★ · Home health care service
• Aya Healthcare · 4.7★ · Recruiter

If by “reliable” you mean agencies with a meaningful Baltimore-area presence, established healthcare staffing operations, and reasonably strong public review/credentialing signals, I’d look at these first:

• American Medical Staffing — Hunt Valley. Nurse-founded and nurse-led, with staffing across acute care, allied health, schools, correctional facilities, and home health. Its local office has 4.8/5 from 105 reviews in the business listing. This is particularly worth considering for nurses and allied-health professionals.
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — Owings Mills. A Maryland-based agency specializing in allied health and nursing, including school and government/correctional staffing. It reports Joint Commission accreditation for Healthcare Staffing Services and has 4.9/5 from 27 reviews in the local listing.
• Access Nursing Services — Lutherville. A family-owned Maryland agency that places CNAs, GNAs, LPNs, RNs and NPs, including supplemental staffing for hospitals and long-term-care facilities. It has a long-standing local presence, although its public review volume is relatively small.
• Maxim Healthcare Baltimore, MD Regional Office — Timonium. A large national organization with a local Baltimore office, offering private-duty nursing, home health, school nursing and other healthcare staffing. The local listing has 4.0/5 from 13 reviews, so I'd investigate the specific recruiter/office experience before committing.
• BrightStar Care — Cockeysville/Baltimore County. Provides both in-home clinical care and staffing for healthcare organizations on per-diem, temporary, contract and permanent bases. Its Baltimore-area office is locally established, though reviews are more reflective of its home-care operation than purely staffing.
• Aya Healthcare — national agency rather than Baltimore-based. A major option if you're looking for travel nursing, allied health, PRN, or permanent placement. Its large national operation gives you access to many assignments, but reviews indicate that recruiter responsiveness can vary considerably by team.

For context, independent staffing-review data currently identifies 2026 Best of Staffing winners in Maryland, but the Baltimore-specific healthcare list is relatively limited; that's one reason I wouldn't rely solely on generic “top agency” lists.

If you're a healthcare professional

I'd narrow the list based on your role:

• RN/LPN/CNA: American Medical Staffing, Access Nursing, Maxim
• Allied health/therapy: American Medical Staffing, Eaglewings, Aya
• Travel nursing: Aya, AMN, and other national travel agencies
• School nursing: Eaglewings, Maxim, American Medical Staffing
• Locum physician/NP/PA work: CompHealth or Aya Locums; CompHealth specifically handles locum tenens plus permanent placements and credentialing/licensing support.

One important caveat: agency reliability can vary dramatically by recruiter and assignment, so I would compare the actual pay package, cancellation policy, guaranteed hours, benefits, credentialing timeline, and who handles problems after you start—not just the agency's overall rating.

If you tell me your profession (RN, LPN, CNA, NP, physician, therapist, etc.) and whether you're looking for per-diem, local contract, permanent, or travel work, I can narrow this to the 3–5 most relevant Baltimore agencies and compare pay, benefits, specialties, and current openings.

Places ChatGPT showed

• CNE Medical Staffing · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• Harmony & Hope Health Care · 5.0★ · Home health care service
• BrightStar Care · 4.9★ · Home health care service
• Infinity Healthcare Staffing LLC · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency

If by “best” you mean strongest options to contact for healthcare staffing in Western Maryland, I’d focus on agencies with a local presence and a demonstrated healthcare/nursing focus rather than general temp agencies.

Healthcare staffing agencies worth considering

• CNE Medical Staffing — Frederick. A locally based nursing/healthcare staffing agency supporting RNs, LPNs and allied-health professionals. Its local presence makes it particularly relevant for Frederick and surrounding Western Maryland.
• Harmony & Hope Health Care — Frederick. Provides supplemental/contract medical staffing as well as home-health services, with staffing coordination advertised around the clock.
• BrightStar Care — Frederick. Nurse-led organization offering medical staffing alongside home-care services; useful if you're looking for both clinical staffing and in-home-care capabilities.
• Infinity Healthcare Staffing LLC — Meyersdale, PA, serving Western Pennsylvania and Maryland. Particularly relevant if you need nurses or nursing assistants for hospitals or long-term-care facilities.
• American Medical Staffing — Hunt Valley. A larger Maryland healthcare staffing firm offering travel/contract staffing, contract-to-hire and permanent placement. Its geographic reach makes it worth considering for Western Maryland even though it isn't locally headquartered there.
• Compassion Nursing Care — Hagerstown. Offers hospital, long-term-care, home-health, travel-nursing, therapy and per-diem staffing, and specifically lists a Hagerstown address.
• Eclat Healthcare Staffing — Shippensburg, PA. BBB lists it as an accredited healthcare/medical staffing company serving the Hagerstown area.

If you're hiring for a facility

For RNs/LPNs/CNAs/GNAs and filling open shifts, I'd start by comparing CNE Medical Staffing, Compassion Nursing Care, Harmony & Hope, and Infinity Healthcare Staffing. Maryland has also previously contracted agencies including Royal Homecare and Staffing, Delta-T Group and Favorite Healthcare for supplemental nursing coverage at Western Maryland Hospital Center, demonstrating that those firms have participated in Maryland public-sector healthcare staffing.

If you're a healthcare professional looking for agency work, the comparison changes somewhat—pay packages, local per-diem availability, travel assignments, benefits, credentialing speed, and guaranteed hours become much more important.

If you tell me whether you're a healthcare facility looking to hire staff or a nurse/CNA/other clinician looking for work, I can narrow this down to the most relevant agencies and compare pay, specialties, locations served, reviews, and contact information.

Places ChatGPT showed

• American Medical Staffing · 4.8★ · Employment agency
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• PRN Healthcare · 4.9★ · Employment agency
• Critical Connection, Inc. · 4.7★ · Employment agency
• CNE Medical Staffing · 5.0★ · Nursing agency

If by “best-credentialed clinicians” you mean agencies with strong systems for verifying licensure, specialty certifications, education, experience, and competency—not simply agencies with the highest-rated recruiters—there are several Maryland options worth examining.

The strongest publicly documented signals I found are:

• American Medical Staffing — Hunt Valley. A Maryland-based, nurse-founded staffing firm offering travel, contract, per-diem and permanent staffing. Its Maryland presence and focus on clinical staffing make it a natural agency to vet for hospital-level clinicians.
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — Owings Mills. This is particularly notable for Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services certification and its stated full credentialing/background-check process for nurses, aides and paraprofessionals.
• PRN Healthcare — Bethesda. A national agency with Maryland operations and staffing across nursing and allied-health specialties.
• Critical Connection, Inc. — Rockville. Particularly relevant if you need therapy/allied-health clinicians in addition to nurses.
• CNE Medical Staffing — Frederick. A smaller Maryland agency covering RN/LPN and allied-health staffing, including temporary, travel, per-diem and permanent placement.

A useful credentialing benchmark

I would put substantially more weight on Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services certification than on online reviews. The Joint Commission says certified staffing firms must credential clinical staff assigned in the field, and its current 2026 standards require documentation of current, job-appropriate licensure/certification/registration and education, verified against primary sources.

Maryland's own health department says it oversees health-care staffing agencies through licensing and complaint investigation.

For comparison, large national firms can have particularly strong credentialing infrastructure. Aya Healthcare reports an average clinician experience of 8 years, 77% of its nurses/allied clinicians having a bachelor's degree or higher, and a 95% on-time-start rate attributed partly to its credentialing process. AMN Healthcare reports a 98.99% compliance score, with 71% of its RNs holding a BSN and 7% holding advanced degrees.

So, rather than calling one agency “best,” I'd distinguish them this way:

One caveat: an agency's credentialing process doesn't prove that every clinician it supplies has unusually strong credentials. If you're evaluating agencies as a hospital, SNF, school system, or other facility, I'd ask each one for its credentialing checklist and audit process, including primary-source license verification, expiration monitoring, specialty certification verification, employment/reference verification, competency testing, skills validation, background checks, and clinician-specific experience by specialty.

If you tell me what type of clinicians you need (RNs, CRNAs, physicians, PT/OT/SLP, CNAs, etc.) and what setting (hospital, SNF, behavioral health, school, home health), I can narrow this to the Maryland agencies with the strongest documented credentials for that particular workforce.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Access Nursing Services · 4.2★ · Recruiter
• All Staffing, Inc · 3.9★ · Nursing agency
• Trustworthy Staffing Solutions, LLC · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• CNE Medical Staffing · 5.0★ · Nursing agency
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland · 4.9★ · Employment agency

If by “trusted” you mean Maryland-based/family- or privately owned agencies with evidence of facility relationships, licensing/accreditation, longevity, or strong local reputation, I’d put these on your research list. I’m not treating online ratings alone as proof that hospitals or facilities “trust” an agency.

Maryland agencies worth evaluating

• Access Nursing Services — Lutherville
• Explicitly describes itself as family owned and operated and says it has provided nursing and staffing services in Maryland for 30+ years.
• Joint Commission accredited and licensed by Maryland’s Office of Health Care Quality as a Healthcare Staffing Agency.
• Provides supplemental staffing to hospitals, long-term-care facilities, insurance companies, and other healthcare organizations.
• This is probably the clearest match to your family-owned + established facility staffing criteria.
• All Staffing, Inc — Owings Mills
• A Maryland nursing-staffing agency with a local office.
• Worth investigating if you're specifically looking for a smaller local provider rather than a national staffing company.
• Trustworthy Staffing Solutions, LLC — Pikesville
• Maryland-based nursing agency; Maryland Department of Health's active provider listings also include Trustworthy Staffing Solutions.
• Its local business profile currently shows a 5.0 rating from 14 reviews, although that should be treated as one reputation signal rather than proof of facility contracts.
• B&E Nurse Staffing Agency
• Small Maryland nursing agency with a 5.0 Google business rating from 21 reviews in the current search results.
• I'd verify its ownership structure, Maryland staffing license, and facility references before putting it on an approved-vendor list.
• CNE Medical Staffing — Frederick
• Local nursing agency with a 5.0 rating from 11 reviews in the current business results.
• Particularly worth considering if your facilities are in Frederick/Montgomery/Washington County.
• Eaglewings Allied Health Staffing Agency - Maryland — Owings Mills
• Local allied-health staffing provider with a 4.9 rating from 27 reviews in the current results.
• I'd verify whether its ownership structure meets your specific definition of “family-owned.”

Another particularly relevant private/local operator

Medical Staffing Services (MSS) in Catonsville says it is a privately owned, nurse-managed agency with more than 40 years of experience. It provides pediatric/adult private-duty nursing and says it has built partnerships with physicians and hospitals.

That makes MSS particularly interesting if your definition of “locally owned” includes privately owned Maryland companies, even though it isn't described specifically as family-owned.

What I'd verify before calling an agency “trusted”

For a healthcare facility doing vendor due diligence, I'd ask each agency for:

1. Maryland Healthcare Staffing Agency license number
2. Joint Commission or other accreditation, if applicable
3. 3–5 current Maryland facility references
4. Types of facilities currently served — hospitals, SNFs, assisted living, behavioral health, etc.
5. Average fill rate and cancellation/no-show rate
6. Credentialing process for RN/LPN/CNA/GNA staff
7. Background checks, drug screening, license verification and competency testing
8. Workers' compensation and professional/general liability coverage
9. 24/7 staffing coverage and replacement procedures
10. Whether they can provide local references from facilities similar to yours

One important distinction: “family-owned/local” doesn't necessarily mean facilities trust them, and online star ratings don't establish institutional trust. The strongest evidence is a combination of Maryland licensure, accreditation where applicable, longevity, and verifiable references from healthcare facilities.

If you tell me what type of facility you operate (hospital, SNF, assisted living, behavioral health, home health, etc.) and which part of Maryland, I can narrow this to 5–10 locally/family-owned agencies that specifically staff that type of facility, including ownership, licenses/accreditations, service area, reviews, and contact information.