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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., pointed a finger at the state in its formal reply to allegations of understaffing at New Hampshire Hospital, the state's psychiatric hospital in Concord, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Healthcare jobs account for 9 percent of all U.S. jobs, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, with some communities relying even more heavily on the health sector to support the local economy.

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While the number of nursing jobs increased by 6 percent from 2012 to 2016, and is poised to increase an additional 7 percent from 3.6 million positions in 2017 to 3.9 million positions in 2021, the nursing skills gap is…

The healthcare industry added 19,500 jobs last month, contributing to the nation's overall 211,000 new jobs in April, according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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