Dive Brief:
- Last month, the healthcare industry added more than 45,000 jobs; more than 25% of those jobs were in hospitals.
- Hospital employment rose by almost 12,000 in April, a 1.8% increase from April of last year.
- There have also been fewer mass layoffs this year than in previous years.
Dive Insight:
Nursing homes and residential-care facilities are also faring better on the job front, adding a total of 8,100 employees in April after cutting around $8,000 jobs over the two previous months. Jobs in ambulatory care settings are up around 4% from April of last year, with physician offices adding 9,300 employees, outpatient centers added 3,400 and home-health agencies adding 2,700.
Hospitals basically went 30 months with zero jobs growth. But in the past 9 months, they’ve added 82k jobs. pic.twitter.com/6Iy4VjoEF4
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 8, 2015