January 30, 2006 10:29 AM

Mass. hospitals continue hiring at healthy clip
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 10:29 AM

If you're in the healthcare field in Massachusetts you're in the right place at the right time:

Roughly 161,400 people worked in the state's hospitals at the end of 2005. That's a 1.9 percent jump from the 158,400 people who worked in the sector at the end 2004, a year in which hospital employment grew 2.4 percent and the sector added nearly 4,000 jobs. Overall hospital employment has grown by more than 10 percent since the beginning of 2002.