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Health care field needs employees other than nurses

According to the U.S. Labor Department, 13 of the 20 fastest-growing occupations between 2004 and 2014 are related to health care, with home health aides, medical assistants and physician assistants in the top five.

The job market in the medical field has remained strong despite the recession. Many health care workers can benefit from a high salary as well as easy access to upward mobility in a few years’ time, according to healthdegrees.com.

Frederick Memorial Hospital’s marketing and public affairs specialist, Amanda Changuris, said she agrees overall with the assertion the medical field is ripe for careers.

“We’ve certainly been hiring—in the range of about 50 nursing positions in the last three or four months,” Changuris said.

But the need for health care workers is not limited to nurses.

Including turnover, Frederick Memorial hires on average 500 to 700 people of different specialties in a year, said Donna Hagedorn, the hospital’s director of employment services.

“I think with the changes occurring in health care with regard to the aging population, increased cost, demand for diagnostic tests in the U.S. and with government changes to Medicare and Medicaid—all of this leads to a need for people to better manage what’s taking place,” Hagedorn said.
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