Pennsylvania Health Care Jobs, 1998

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Pennsylvania Health Care Jobs, 1998

• Dennis G. Shea, Ph.D.
• Department of Health Policy and Administration
• University Park, PA 16802
• Data for this presentation comes from Road to
  2000-II, Update on Pennsylvania T.Fuller, M.
  Shields, and S. Smith, College of Agricultural
  Sciences, Penn State

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Pennsylvania Job Growth

• Job growth overall in the health services
  industry in Pennsylvania has been quite rapid in
  the 1990s, rising by 19 percent since 1990 and
  rising 4.3 percent since 1996
• Nursing and personal care facilities have ADDED
  more than 6,200 jobs since 1996 and more than
  31,000 jobs since 1990
• The fastest growing health services industries
  from 1996 to 1998 were health and allied
  services, offices of health practitioners other
  than physicians and dentists, and physician
  offices
• The greatest number of new jobs in health
  services from 1996 to 1998 came from physician
  offices, nursing and personal care facilities,
  and hospitals
• The slowest job growth from 1996 to 1998 occurred
  in home health care, osteopathic physician
  offices, and medical and dental labs

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Pennsylvanias Top 10 Growing Industries

• Three of the fastest growing industries in
  Pennsylvania are in health care
• nursing homes
• home health care
• physician practices

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Employment Growth in Pennsylvania Health Services
Industries, 1990-98
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Employment Growth in Pennsylvania Health Services
Industries, 1996-98
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Total Employment

• Nursing homes are the fourth largest industry in
  PA, with more than 109,000 employees.
• Physician practices rank ninth, with almost
  74,000 employees
• Hospitals still employ more than one-quarter of a
  million people in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvanias Top 10 Industries

• Three of the ten largest industries in
  Pennsylvania are in health care
• hospitals
• nursing homes
• physician practices

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Total Employment in Pennsylvania Health Services
Industries, 1998