Mission: To enhance the delivery of compassionate, quality healthcare by providing opportunities for knowledge, skills, and leadership development of all Health Science education students, thereby helping the student meet the needs of the healthcare community. • HOSA–FutureHealthProfessionalsisthestudentleadershiporganizationforHealthScienceEducation.Foundedin1976,HOSAbroughttogetherstudents,teachers, and healthcare industry leaders to create an organization that is exclusively committed to healthcare.• Since1976,over1.5millionmembershavebenefittedfromthemissionofHOSAandthededicationofHOSAadvisors.HOSAistheonlyCTSOthathasshown 20 years’ continuous membership growth! • Today,HOSA–FutureHealthProfessionals remainscommitted tomakinga positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premiere leadership, personal growth, community service, academic scholar-ships, and unique internships.
DID YOU KNOW?UtahHOSAwasselectedasthe“MostProfessionalState”atthe2104HOSANationalLeadershipConference.Five Utah HOSA student members have served as National HOSA state officers—two as HOSA National President.FiveUtahHOSAadvisorshaveservedon variousNationalHOSAcommittees—twoasBoardChairs.HOSAmembersandadvisorshavethe opportunity to apply for internships with the National Surgeon General and the United StatesPublicHealthService.InUtah,CTSOsalignwiththeeightCTE AreasofStudy/ProgramsofStudyandmorethan60CareerPathways.
HOSA members participate in many activities to gain experi-ences to help them develop life skills, leadership, and technical knowlege related to health science and healthcare skills.
HOSA PROFILENationallyHOSA=165,822membersin3,785chaptersin48states.HOSAalsohasapresenceinItaly,Mexico,andCanada.
UtahHOSA=4,145membersin89chapters
20percentoftheHOSAnationalmember-ship is male.
Non-Caucasiansaccountfor46.5percentoftheHOSAnationalmembership.
UtahHOSAhasactivesecondaryandpost-secondary/collegiatechapters.
HOSAactivitiesleadtoover300career opportunities in healthcare.
Rachel Decker, Education SpecialistUtahStateOfficeofEducation801-538-7843rachel.decker@schools.utah.govHOSA.org|UTHOSA.org
Denise Abbott,[email protected]|UTHOSA.org
HOSA Membership 2012-2013 2013-2014
HOSA Chapters 2012-2013 2013-2014
National 150,270 165,822
Utah 3,967 4,145
National 3,541 3,785
Utah 80 89
HOSA: Future HeAltH PrOFeSSiOnAlS
Utah HOSA State Officer TeamBack row, left to right:SariahGridley,AJBull,Omar
Ramirez,JacobLambertsen,MadisonJohnsonFront row, left to right:BaileyBunch,ShiDouglas,Alex
Salimbene,NicoleChang,SamanthaVranes
Utah State Office of Education | Career and Technical Education 250 East 500 South P.O. Box 144200 Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4200
CTE REGION HOSA STATE OFFICERS
2014-2015
MEMBERS2013-2014
CHAPTERS2013-2014
NATIONAL COMPETITION 2014 WINNERS
Top TenBear River 441 4 7Central 108 6 1Mountainland 695 15 8Southeast 51 1 0Southwest 125 5 2Uintah Basin 0 0 0WasatchFrontNo. AlexSalimbene,SamanthaVranes,
BaileyBunch,MadisonJohnson943 14 7
WasatchFrontSo. AJBull,SariahGridley,NicoleChang 1611 37 8
Utah hOSa RegiOnal highlightS
SeRvice teachinggOalSUtah HOSA Goals for 2014-2015:1.SeamlessintregrationwithHealthScience EducationandHOSA.2. Increased opportunity for healthcare career exploration.3. Enhanced leadership development.4.Strengthenindustrypartnerships.
HOSAencouragesHealthSciencestudentsto provide community service through the adoption of goals and implementation of strategies related to the support of a national healthcareorganization.Thecurrentnationalservice project is the Leukemia and Lym-phomaSociety.HOSAmembersplanaware-ness, service and fundraising activities in support of the project.
HOSA brings relevance to the classroomthrough industry-based competitive events, HOSALeadershipUniversity,andcommunityservice.UtahHOSAmembersareengagedinawiderange of curricula (from foundation courses to specialty courses such as Emergency MedicalTechnician,Medical Forensics, and Biotechnology).
Utah HOSA Top Ten National Winners
natiOnal RecOgnitiOn
EachyearUtahHOSAstudentmemberscompeteattheHOSANationalLeadership Conferenceinmorethan58competitiveevents.
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