{"id":255687,"date":"2025-10-28T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255687\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:50:07","slug":"to-solve-n-js-healthcare-shortage-start-with-high-schoolers-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255687\/","title":{"rendered":"To solve N.J\u2019s healthcare shortage, start with high schoolers| Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/\" title=\"Navigate to Opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion<\/a>Updated: Oct. 27, 2025, 4:24 p.m.|Published: Oct. 27, 2025, 4:22 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Healthcare costs in N.J. are among the nation\u2019s highest. What\u2019s the state doing to help?\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OY7FHXXBXNE4ZPSR6OV4TBFQN4.jpg\"\/>Encouraging young people to pursue healthcare careers in New Jersey is among the most urgent issues facing the state.Canva Illustration for NJ.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E2XUEZYRHNC53GS5UDENMENQYA\">By Dustin Riccio<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4RIHHSDK75A5LIBNPTA6L6EDNI\">Every healthcare professional has their unique origin story: What fired their passion for the practice of medicine, galvanized, and sustained their commitment through arduous education and training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpinionUpdated: Oct. 27, 2025, 4:24 p.m.|Published: Oct. 27, 2025, 4:22 p.m.Encouraging young people to pursue healthcare careers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-255687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}