Northwest Houston growth spurs health care job boom
Health-care jobs are booming in northwest Houston. Health care is following population growth across the area, with new hospitals, specialists, emergency care facilities and nursing homes being built and expanding around the region. “Health care is the fastest growing sector in our area, and nurses are the fastest growing occupation,” said Linda Head, associate vice chancellor at the Lone Star College System, who oversees the college’s workforce education and corporate college partnerships. Across the Houston metro area, there were 105,000 job openings across all industries from Oct. 24 to Jan. 21, Head said, citing job numbers from Burning Glass Technologies’ Labor Insight Tool, a real-time labor market gauge. “And of those, the top industries with job postings were health care, hospitality, insurance, and higher education,” she said. Nursing topped the list, Head said.