This article in Healthleaders Media talks about some encouraging signs that could point to increased job growth at hospitals in 2010. Interestingly, it also illustrates how dismal of a year 2009 was.
Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary data show the healthcare sector created 267,000 new jobs in 2009. This is a significant drop from 2008 when healthcare created 363,600 new jobs.One thing we've learned is that healthcare was not completely recession-proof over the last year and a half as we've seen a number of large-scale layoffs across the board," says David Cherner, managing partner of Health Workforce Solutions, LLC, a San Francisco-based research firm. But, certainly, it is much stronger than any other segment of the economy.
Here's to hoping the healthcare segment stays strong and proves to be a good year for jobs.
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