Health care services

Health care services in Minnesota are world renowned. Health care employs 387,500 people in Minnesota with more than 115,000 of them working in hospitals and health care systems in our state. Hospitals and health care systems contribute $8.6 billion in salaries and benefits in Minnesota.

Given health care’s importance to our state, the Minnesota Dual-Training Pipeline works with the industry to determine workforce needs and create tools to address those needs as seen in the competency models for in-demand occupations that are well-suited to dual-training opportunities.

Validated occupational competency summaries

• Certified nursing assistant

• Chemical dependency and addiction technician

• Community health worker

• Community paramedic

• Critical care nurse

• Dental assistant

• Dental hygienist

• Dental therapist

• Dentist

• Electronic health records specialist

• Emergency room nurse

• EMT to paramedic pathway

• Health support specialist

• Histology technician/technologist

• Licensed alcohol and drug counselor

• Licensed independent clinical social worker

• Licensed practical nurse (LPN)

• Long-term care facility culinary manager

• Medical assistant

• Medical laboratory assistant

• Medical laboratory scientist

• Medical laboratory technician

• Occupational therapist

• Ophthalmic technician

• Pharmacy technician

• Phlebotomist

• Physical therapy assistant

• Positive support analyst

• Positive support specialist

• Psychiatric/mental health technician in-patient

• Psychiatric/mental health technician out-patient

• Radiologic technologist

• Registered nurse

• Respiratory therapist

• Surgical technologist

• Wound, ostomy, and continence nurse

Questions?

Contact us at PIPELINE.Program@state.mn.us.