Our Advantage in Healthcare
We have seen a consistent growth in the cluster of healthcare industries in Carthage.
Our strength in healthcare can be seen below. Here is a sampling of our labor compared to the national average and growth over the past 5 years:
- 3 times more employed in Child and Youth Services
- 52% growth in Emergency and Other Relief Services
- 2 times more employed in Specialty Hospitals
Our Healthcare Assets
2 X
more employed in general medical and surgical hospitals
29%
growth in Child and Youth Services
2 X
more employed in General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
*compared to the national average
Workforce Data
3 X more employed in Child and Youth Services
3 X more employed in Blood and Organ Banks
2 X more employed in Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners
2 X more employed in Specialty Hospitals
2 X more employed in Kidney Dialysis Centers
2 X more employed in General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
2 X more employed in Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities)
2 X more employed in Community Food Services
Above the US average employment in Home Health Care Services
Above the US average employment in Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers
Above the US average employment in All Other Outpatient Care Centers
Subindustries | % Growth |
Emergency and Other Relief Services | 52% |
Child and Youth Services | 29% |
Blood and Organ Banks | 26% |
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists | 18% |
Ambulance Services | 14% |
Community Food Services | 12% |
Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly | 12% |
Child and Youth Services | $58,854 |
Specialty Hospitals | $58,137 |
Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers | $56,200 |
Emergency and Other Relief Services | $53,507 |
Other Individual and Family Services | $43,765 |
Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners | $43,075 |
Ambulance Services | $41,509 |
Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) | $40,807 |
All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services | $40,703 |
Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities | $40,470 |
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers | $40,292 |
Offices of Chiropractors | $37,841 |
Other Residential Care Facilities | $35,876 |
Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) | $35,657 |
Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities | $34,859 |
Continuing Care Retirement Communities | $33,992 |
Vocational Rehabilitation Services | $29,999 |
One of the goals of Panola College School of Nursing and Health Sciences is to promote community engagement through mutually beneficial collaboration with our partners in health care. Through these projects, faculty members and students engage in education to enable learning beyond the campus walls while providing direct benefit and service to the community. Our Simulation Labs provide state-of-the art learning opportunities for students. Scenarios enhance critical thinking skills and clinical judgment with facilitators to guide the learning experience and ensure students achieve learning objectives.
Clinical and fieldwork experiences are provided for students in partner facilities to ensure graduates are as prepared as possible for real-world practice in their chosen profession.
LSU Health Shreveport is located just northeast of Carthage. It includes three professional schools:
- The School of Medicine
- The School of Allied Health Professionals
- The School of Graduate Studies
LSU Health Shreveport currently offers 43 fully accredited residency and fellowship programs and more than 5,000 residents and fellows have trained at the institution.
Located in Shreveport and Monroe, their Primary hospitals are managed by the Ochsner LSU Health System of North Louisiana. The remaining teaching sites include the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, Shriner’s Hospital for Children, Willis-Knighton Medical Center, CHRISTUS Health and Rapides Medical Center.
In Carthage You Are Among Champions
Carthage has a “Champions Mindset” and that is plainly reflected in the Carthage High School football team recently winning their 8th State Title
Unmatched Higher Education
Panola College’s a wide range of curriculum, from Nursing and Health Sciences, Professional and Technical, to Liberal Arts and Sciences programs. The wide-ranging curriculum offers two-year associate degrees, certificate programs for trade and technical careers, a nursing school, adult and continuing education classes, as well as ever-growing distance learning opportunities.
Home of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
Carthage is home of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum, which joins the Jim Reeves Memorial as popular tourist destinations for country music fans. The Country Music Hall of Fame show is held each August to honor country musicians who have their roots in Texas music
