HOSA is a national student organization endorsed by the U.S. Deparment of Education and the Health Science Technology Education Division of ACTE.  HOSA's two-fold is to promote career oppurtunities in the health care industry and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. HOSA's goal is to encourage all health occupations instructors and students to join and be actively involved in the HSTE-HOSA Partnership.

 HOSA provides a unique program of leadership development, motivation, and recognition exclusively for secondary, post secondary, adult, and collegiate students enrolled in HSTE programs. HOSA is 100% health care!

Since its inception in 1976, HOSA has grown steadily reaching nearly 90,000 members through 44 charted HOSA State Associations and approximately 2,600 secondary and post-secondary/collegiate chapters in 2007-2008.

HOSA is not a club to which a few students in school join. Rather, HOSA is a powerful intructional tool that works best when it is integrated into the HSTe curriculum and classroom.  HSTE instructors are committed to the development of the total person. THose who join the HSTE-HOSA Partnership recognize the importance of providing students with the health care field. The rapidly changing health care system needs dedicated workers who, in addition to their technical skills, are people-oriented and capable of playing a leadership or followership role as a member of a healthcare team.

HOSA's mission is especially critical when considering the acute shorage of qualified workers for the healthcare industry. It is essential that the HSTE-HOSA Partnership maintain its momentum and encourage all HSTE instructors to integrate HOSA into their curriculum and classrooms.
Sponsor Mrs. Brooke

 

HOSA Week November 2-8, 2008