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Allied Health professionals are healthcare practitioners with formal education and clinical training who are credentialed through certification, registration and/or licensure.
Allied Health Careers Include:
Diagnostic Medical Imaging
A wide range of imaging procedures is available, from plain film radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds and nuclear medicine, to complex computer generated images such as computed tomography scans (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Medical Laboratory Technology
As vital members of the health care team, medical laboratory professionals play a critical role in collecting information needed to detect, diagnose and treat disease.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy is a health discipline that provides services to people whose lives have been disrupted by physical injury, illness, developmental, psychosocial, or aging-related problems. Occupational in this sense does not necessarily refer to a person's employment; it means therapy that enables a person to gain the function necessary to perform day-to-day work, self-care, and leisure activities as related to one's roles.
Pharmacy
Pharmacists are the health professionals specifically trained in dispensing prescription medications and providing a growing number and range of pharmaceutical care services that are critical to high quality health care and medication use. Pharmacy Technicians assist pharmacists in providing medication and other health care products to patients.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapists and physical therapy assistants provide services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients suffering from injuries or disease.
Respiratory Therapy
Respiratory therapists and respiratory therapy technicians (also known as respiratory care practitioners) evaluate, treat, and care for patients of all ages with breathing or other cardiopulmonary disorders.
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