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Despite sluggish hospital hiring, healthcare reports job growth - According to Modern Healthcare, on May 2, healthcare continued to add jobs last month, but the industry's employment growth occurred largely outside of hospitals, which until recently were a steady source of payroll gains. TO READ MORE click here Nursing Job Outlook Sunny as Experts Project Need for More Than One Million New Nurses by 2022 - According to RWJF.org, on May 19, more than half a million positions for registered nurses (RNs) are projected to open up between 2012 and 2022, according to data released in January by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). TO READ MORE click here State Variability in Supply of Office-based Primary Care Providers: United States 2012 - According to NCHS Data Brief, May 2014, this report presents state estimates of the supply of primary care physicians per capita, as well as the availability of physician assistants or nurse practitioners in primary care physicians’ practices. Estimates are based on data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), Electronic Health Records (EHR) Survey, a nationally representative survey of office-based physicians. TO READ MORE click here