Tuesday, June 11, 2013

As Hospital Hiring Slips, Robot Workers Lurk

As Hospital Hiring Slips, Robot Workers Lurk


he government's healthcare cost reduction focus is having an effect on jobs:
  • Ambulatory care services (making up for hospitals' slowdown in job creation) created 15,300 additional jobs, more than 12% increase since last month.
  • Outpatient care services grew almost four times as quickly in May than April, creating 3,500 additional jobs.
  • Physician's offices created 13% less jobs.
  • Home health care services stayed approximately the same since April.
  • Nursing and residential care services also slowed down, by 52% since last month. 
  • Healthcare as a whole added 11,000 additional jobs from April to May.