By: Reginald L., Sr. Prior Authorization Specialist
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 24th 2024
Nevada Healthcare Career News
Nevada Career Institute reports that the healthcare sector added over 23,000 jobs last month,seasonally adjusted. Those numbers are behind the trailing 12-month average for job creation.
Nevada Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers are the biggest employer in healthcare. Nationally, the U.S. added a seasonally adjusted 8,000 plis jobs in August, up from just 1,600 new jobs in July.
Next to Hospitals, Nevada Healthcare Careers grew in ambulatory services for the biggest job gains followed by Nevada Healthcare Careers in Nursing care facilities, residential mental health facilities and offices of non-physician healthcare practitioners experienced seasonally adjusted drop-offs as the school year began for colleges and returning high-school students.
As more Urgent Care Center providers are developed throughout Las Vegas, NV and surrounding cities, there will be a need for Medical Assistants, Medical Billing, and more healthcare related jobs.
Overall, the U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in August, allaying some anxieties about a potential recession, though there are still signs of an upcoming slowdown.
Nevada HealthCare Careers Growth Indexes
The Office of Statewide Initiatives and Nevada Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program based at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine presents an annual edition of the Health Care Careers in Nevada.
The 2018-2019 edition of Nevada Health Care Careers in Nevada contains information on over 70 health care occupations in Nevada, including an overview of job requirements, Nevada employment outlook, and average salary in Nevada for each occupation.
Over the past decade, HealthCare Careers in Nevada – hospitals, clinics, medical and dental practices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and other health providers – has been an economic mainstay and steady source of employment growth in Nevada and the United States.
For example, in 2017, the health care industry created an estimated 375,000 jobs in the U.S.
Nevada HealthCare Careers: Annual Income
Currently, 125,727 Nevadans – one in ten workers – are employed in the health services sector, as reported by the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Moreover, twenty of the fastest growing health care occupations in Nevada possess an average annual salary that exceeds the average of $54,620 for all occupations in Nevada.