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Healthcare added 50,200 jobs in December, making it the top month for industry job growth since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Employment Statistics survey began in 1990, according to a report from AMN Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company.

Seattle is the best city to find science, technology, engineering and math jobs, according to an analysis by personal finance website WalletHub.

Tucson, Ariz.-based Northwest Healthcare is building a new 70-bed hospital in Tucson that officials say is expected to add 595 healthcare jobs, according to an Arizona Daily Star report.

Perrysburg (Ohio) Hospital, part of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, will hold open interviews Jan. 16 for a variety of positions, according to CBS affiliate WTOL.

Healthcare added 50,200 jobs in December, an increase from the 32,100 healthcare jobs added the month prior, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on recruiting millennials and retaining new nurses as baby boomers retire.

In 2017, 1.7 million U.S. women healthcare workers and their children lived below the poverty line — accounting for nearly 5 percent of all people living in poverty nationwide, according to research published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Scottsdale, Ariz., is the best city to find a job this year, according to an analysis by personal finance website WalletHub.

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is taking steps to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health will host a Jan. 3 job fair to fill about 500 clinical, administrative and support service positions, hospital spokesperson Mary Ann Eckard told LancasterOnline.