Health Care Labor Force Growth (& Competition) In Surprising Places

Recruiting is usually on the list of strategic issues for managers of health care provider organizations. And for good reason. Between 2000 and 2016, while overall private sector employment grew by 9.8%, health care employment grew by 42.0%. This caused health care services’ share of total private sector employment to rise from 9.8 percent in 2000 to 12.6% in 2016 as reported in a report by Deloitte, Driving Healthy Employment Growth: A Look at Occupations in Health Care. In raw numbers, U.S. health care employment rose by 4.6 million jobs.

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