Ohio A Leader In Healthcare
and Medical Laboratory Growth The
U.S. healthcare industry is now the largest employer among
the twenty (20) major U.S. industrial categories. The industry’s
growth is accelerating in response to an explosion of research
and technology driven opportunities to provide quality medical
products and services. BFPC, an Atlanta-based consulting
group, analyzed the rapid growth in the Medical and Diagnostic
Laboratory sector. Employment increased by 46 percent between
2000 and 2005. Nationwide, jobs in the Medical and Diagnostic
Laboratory sector pay an average of about $52,000 a year
(35 percent higher than the national average). Looking at
the top five (5) states in the country, Ohio is ranked No.
4 and is the only non-sunbelt state among the top five. BFPC
believes that Ohio’s ranking reflects an especially effective
technology-oriented economic development effort. Ohio has
lost traditional industrial plants, but the Ohio leadership
recognized that the state had the resources to excel in another
discipline. Ohio’s Third Frontier Program, which is a $1.6
billion effort to promote advanced technology, has spun off
related activity in the medical and healthcare sectors. BFPC
also ranked states on the growth of Medical and Diagnostic
Centers in relation to the growth of their population. Ohio
again ranked in the top five states nationally (only state
to achieve the top five in both rankings). To read the entire
article, please click
here.
State of Ohio Awards Stark County Collaboration Over
a decade ago, based on an idea from W.R. Timken Jr., the
education and business communities collaborated on a program
called SAMM (Science and Math on the Move). SAMM is a highly
mobile common inventory of high tech science and math equipment
that can be delivered to any of the county’s high schools
as needed. The program has been supported by the 17 school
districts, five colleges, seven Stark County foundations,
and the Canton Joint Engineering Council. This past month
the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subcommittee
of the Ohio Partnership for Continued Learning (State P-16
Council) announced that Stark was the recipient of a grant
under the K-8 STEM Program of Excellence established by the
Ohio Legislature. The grant furthers development of a core
curriculum in math and science for grades 3-5 in all 69 elementary
schools in Stark County. Also the grant will support a new
interdisciplinary program, Engineering is Elementary (EiE),
developed by the Museum of Science in Boston. Our proven
track record of collaboration between the education and business
communities was instrumental in being awarded this grant.
To read more about the program, click
on the article from
the Stark Education Partnership.
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