The health care field added 21,500 new jobs in October 2017, according to a Labor Brief report from the Altarum Institute. These kinds of jobs in 2017 continue to grow at three-quarters the pace of 2015 and 2016, driven primarily by a slowdown in hospital job growth.
The report can be obtained at https://altarum.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-related-files/CSHS-Labor-Brief_November_2017.pdf.