Report estimates U.S. emergency care workforce

[CAL/AAEM News Service]

Report estimates U.S. emergency care workforce

Source: AHA News Now (http://www.ahanews.com)
Date: August 4, 2006


A new report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the State University of New
York in Albany provides estimates of the total number of workers in the emergency medical
care workforce, looking at various types of providers in both urban and rural settings.
According to the report, there were roughly 95,000 registered nurses and 4,500 advanced
practice nurses working in emergency departments nationwide in 2000; there were 25,500
self-identified emergency medicine physicians in the U.S. in 2002, although not all
worked in EDs. In 2003: an estimated 2,325 physician assistants were in the emergency
care workforce; there were a reported 757,000 people licensed as emergency medical
technicians or paramedics; and there were roughly 90,000 emergency medical dispatchers in
the U.S.


To view the report, please visit
http://www.albany.edu/news/pdf_files/EmergencyCare%20Workforce%20in%20the%20US%2008-2006A.pdf




Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

The CAL/AAEM Archives are available at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/calaaem/


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