High Schools Help Develop Future Health Workers
Axios
A fix to chronic health care worker shortages could be taking shape in some high schools across the country.
…Technical education programs focused on health care have been around in the United States since at least the 1950s. But interest and investment tend to ebb and flow with workforce shortages, said Jean Moore, director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the State University of New York at Albany.
“When shortages are extreme, people begin to say, ‘Maybe we should start letting people know about opportunities early on.'”
“By 2036, the U.S. will be short more than 337,000 nurses, 88,000 addiction counselors, 62,000 physicians, and 5,000 pharmacists, according to the federal government.