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The report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that even after controlling for age, race, marital status and children in the home, males in nursing out-earned females by nearly $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals.

Providers find retirement, financial planning for women in healthcare has high importance.

Welander was first hired by St. Charles in 2009 as director of accounting before being promoted to director of finance in 2014.

Hospitals, ambulatory centers add most jobs as month sees smaller growth than previous ones.

17 companies on the Fortune list were either healthcare providers, healthcare services firms or biotech firms.

In addition to labor and benefits, hospitals pumped local economies with more than $782 million in expenditures on goods and services in 2013.

Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage of 12,500 to 31,100 primary care physicians, and 28,200 to 63,700 non-primary care physicians, most notably among surgical specialists.

Average signing bonuses have ranged from $20,000 to $25,000 over the past five years.

Conditions include keeping all the hospitals open 10 years -- with four of them as acute care facilities -- maintaining charity care and community benefit spending, participating in Medicaid and providing essential health and reproductive services.

The state needs to create and fill 13,568 residency positions to fully resolve the physician shortage by 2025.