Today, it is expected that the Arizona health care job vacancy rate could be as high as 25% in some areas by the year 2010. With the vacancy number rate on an increase, jobs within the health care industry are very secure careers to be pursuing at this time. Nursing shortage rates are expected to be at 35% by the year 2015, with this number not including all other areas of the health care industry that have necessary jobs to fill.
With Arizona’s high level of retirement population guaranteed, it is logical to believe that as long as the baby-boomer generation is retiring that Arizona will have a higher amount of health care industry jobs to fill than are seen in other parts of the United States.
Currently, local and federal governments are preparing and implementing programs that are designed to draw people into careers in the health care industry, but even when these perks go into place, the health care job situation in Arizona may stay precarious for many years to come with any high senior care demand for services that results from America’s current retirement situations.