| Health Care: The Jobs Machine |
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Capital Area Michigan Works!, the regional workforce investment board, in cooperation with Ingham Regional Medical Center, Sparrow Health System, the Ingham County Medical Society, and Lansing Community College, retained PPA to conduct an analysis of the economic impact of the health care industry for the Lansing, Michigan metropolitan area. Among the topics included in this study was consideration of the impact of salaries and wages from each of the regions health systems as well as the faculty and staff of Michigan State University’s Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine. Additional data were compiled from a variety of sources that detail the overall financial impact of these institutions as well as the impact of long-term care, allied health professions, and other related activities. Salary and employment levels for several key industries in the region were prepared, and most significantly, comparisons of the long-term trends in employment for several of the larger and historically most significant industry sectors in the region clearly demonstrated the decline of manufacturing employment and the concurrent expansion of health care employment and the growth of health care-based earnings. Educational resources devoted to health careers education—including medicine, nursing, and a variety of allied health careers—were also highlighted in this analysis. |
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