Information Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
Medical And Clinical Laboratory Technologists
Rapid employment growth is projected; job opportunities will be especially good in offices of health practitioners, general medical and surgical hospitals, home health care services, and outpatient care centers. Applicants with work experience in health care and strong business and management skills likely will have the best opportunities. Earnings are high, but long work hours are common. A masters degree is the standard credential for most positions, although a bachelors degree is adequate for some entry-level positions in smaller facilities and in health information management.
On average, Medical and Health Services Managers
earn $ 73,340 per year.
Job Opportunities for Health Care Careers are
expected to:
Increase faster than average.
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Health and Medical Administrative Services
Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator
Health Services Administration
Health Unit Manager/Ward Supervisor
Insurance Underwriters
Health care is a business and, like every business, it needs good management to keep it running smoothly. Medical and health services managers, also referred to as health care executives or health care administrators, plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise the delivery of health care. These workers are either specialists in charge of a specific clinical department or generalists who manage an entire facility or system.
Medical and health services managers must be familiar with management principles and practices. A masters degree in health services administration, long-term care administration, health sciences, public health, public administration, or business administration is the standard credential for most generalist positions in this field. However, a bachelors degree is adequate for some entry-level positions in smaller facilities, at the departmental level within health care organizations, and in health information management.
Medical and health services managers held about 262,000 jobs in 2006. About 37 percent worked in hospitals, and another 22 percent worked in offices of physicians or in nursing and residential care facilities. Most of the remainder worked in home health care services, Federal Government health care facilities, outpatient care centers, insurance carriers, and community care facilities for the elderly.
American College of Health Care Administrators
American College of Healthcare Executives
American Health Information Management Association
Association of University Programs in Health Administration
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education
Medical Group Management Association
