![]() Nursing care facilities have seen an 11.1% drop in employment since February of 2020. However, these facilities had 976,500 employees nationwide in February 2020, but only 946,000 in June of 2023 – a 3.1% decrease. Employment in community and assisted living elder care facilities reached a low of 870,000 in January of 2022 and has been growing slightly since. The number of workers employed at skilled nursing care and elder care facilities continues to remain significantly below pre-pandemic levels. ![]() However, as we show in the following charts , employment in these industries is still below expected levels, given pre-pandemic trends. By June 2023, physicians’ offices, outpatient care centers, home health services and hospitals employed more people than they had in February 2020. While all health service industries had sharp drops in employment at the beginning of the pandemic, most had seen an upturn in jobs by the summer of 2020 – an upward trajectory that has largely continued to the present. Jobs in the health sector are 2.2% higher than in February 2020 (the previous peak), compared to 2.6% in all other sectors. The health industry had reported 95% of pre-pandemic job numbers by July of 2020, but non-healthcare jobs did not return to 95% of pre-pandemic levels until almost a year later in June 2021.Īs of June 2023, the health sector added 41,100 jobs over the previous month. While the pandemic recession is over, recovery was incomplete. Employment had begun to rise in both sectors by May 2020. ![]() Total health employment in February 2020 was 16.5 million.Īfter this unprecedented drop at the beginning of the pandemic, jobs in both the health and non-health sectors sharply rebounded. In April of 2020, health employment fell to 14.9 million from 16.2 million in 2019 (by -8.2%), while non-health employment fell by -14.0%. Even so, health sector employment did not fall quite as steeply as jobs in the rest of the economy. The COVID-19 recession was markedly different – as lockdowns spread across the country, health sector jobs fell sharply along with jobs in other sectors. During the Great Recession (from December 2007 through June 2009) for example, health sector employment continued to increase – from 13.1 million in December 2007 to 13.4 million in December 2008, and then 13.7 million in December 2009 – even as most other sectors saw significant declines. In the past, health sector jobs have been relatively recession-proof.
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