Home health aides, medical assistants and other workers with less than a four-year college degree account for nearly half of the health care workforce in Florida and across the country, a new Brookings Institute analysis reports.
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Between 2009 and 2011, a total of 3.8 million people in 10 different “pre-baccalaureate” fields worked in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, including eight regions in Florida, said Martha Ross, a Brookings fellow and author of the report released today.
In Florida, the 280,000 workers identified in those fields accounted for more than half of the health care workforce, providing medical treatment in hospitals, doctors’ offices, other medical facilities and homes.
