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Women-owned businesses are creating Connecticut healthcare jobs. They are also responsible for creating jobs in many other states.

The number of U.S. businesses increased by 34 percent from 1997 to 2011, when women-owned firms grew by 50 percent – a rate 1½ times the national average. It’s clear that health care and social service fields have the highest concentration of women-owned firms, with 52 percent owned by women, according to the American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, a Summary of Important Trends, 1997–2011.

An example of such a business is the Home Instead Senior Care network.

More than half of Home Instead Senior Care® franchises are owned all, or in part, by women, including the top five U.S. franchises.

Tim Connelly, director of Franchise Development for Home Instead, Inc., said he believes that women bring many valuable skills to home care franchising, including caring, compassion, organization and the ability to get people to work together. “What’s more, women are often viewed as the family caregivers, so they understand the needs and challenges of caring for others.”

Barton Associates said this week it fully expects to be expanding and hiring for Connecticut healthcare jobs in the coming year.

The company said it experienced significant growth in the locum tenens Hospitalist staffing market in 2011. (more…)

Nursing jobs in Connecticut have become the spotlight of a recent The National Labor Relations Board.

The National Labor Relations Board is sending a powerful message to the nursing home operator HealthBridge Management that it unfairly fired then rehired 700 nursing home employees. The NLRB is pushing to make HealthBridge pay back wages to the workers and restore their seniority. A hearing on the wrongdoing is scheduled for the middle of July.

The 700 workers did laundry and housekeeping services throughout six Connecticut nursing homes under the subcontractor Healthcare Services Group. Days after they were fired, they were rehired for lower pay and a lesser title. The subcontractor honored all of the provisions of the contract between HealthBridge Management and New England Health Care Workers District 1199, the NLRB decision states. (more…)

Achieve Beyond, a nationally recognized health care provider that specializes in pediatric therapy and educational services for children in need nationwide, said this week in response a growing number of reported cases of autism, it is looking to hire for therapist jobs in Connecticut, among other places.

Expressly, Achieve Beyond is offering more Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services for children and families nationwide and is looking to hire more qualified BCBA therapists to implement these new programs.

In addition to jobs in Connecticut, Achieve Beyond is hiring for healthcare jobs in Illinois and other states.
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Healthcare jobs are expected to increase over the next year in many regions, but hospitals are actually eliminating nursing jobs in Connecticut.
Many hospitals are still operating in the red and continue to restructure to account for loss of patients and funds.

Patient volume is declining and funding has been cut all around. Mass layoffs are still commonplace at hospitals around the country.
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The House of Representatives have approved a plan to bail out the financially troubled University of Connecticut Healthcare Center, a bill that could potentially create or save hundreds of healthcare jobs in Connecticut (click here).

The new plan could improve the center’s 35-year-old John Dempsey Hospital.

According to the Hartford Courant.com, after three hours of debate that ended shortly before 9 p.m., the House voted 109-34 for the measure. There was bipartisan support, though some Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats voted against the plan after questioning whether an expensive new patient tower is needed at the hospital campus in Farmington.

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Apria Healthcare, a company that distributes diabetic and respiratory supplies to patients in Connecticut and across the nation, has said that it will lay off 15 workers by the end of April, thereby eliminating several healthcare jobs in CT.

The reason is unclear, according to HartfordBusiness.com.

The announcement comes at a time when Connecticut jobs are on the decline.

Apria employs more than 11,000 people in 504 branch offices in the United States. It serves more than 1 million patients a year, the Web site says. The Blackstone Group, a big New York-based private equity investment firm, bought Apria in 2008.

According to Tampa Bay Online.com, the company has been “restructuring its operations and outsourcing some work overseas.”

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Although the medical industry is one that usually continues to grow, despite the economy, CT healthcare jobs are on the decline.

The State of Connecticut saw its first round of significant job losses in the healthcare industry in more than 10 years during Q2 of this year, according to the state Department of Labor. Since March, the state has lost 1,800 healthcare jobs, a decrease of almost .75 percent.

Even though Connecticut’s healthcare industry has added 3,000 jobs since June 2008, the industry has been seeing a month-to-month decline in positions. During June, the state lost 1,200 healthcare jobs, with losses spread among various sub-sectors.

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