Figure 10. Density of Hospital and Health Services Businesses

Figure 10. Density of Hospital and Health Services Businesses

• Prince George’s County should consider how physicians, surgeons, nurses, as well as other healthcare occupations from both its resident population and its workforce are integrating into increased value-added networking opportunities around innovation and entrepreneurship.

• Jobs in the hospitals and healthcare services sector may be a good fit for several of the strategies within the second strategic action, such as pursuing a consortium around the industry’s targeted critical skills, and also fostering the presence of nonprofit skill development providers.

• Hospitals and health services can be connected to the

County’s efforts to increase transit-oriented development.

It is important that these anchors are accessible to all individuals, and one component of this is accessibility for both transit and walkability. As Prince George’s

County considers new uses for underperforming commercial and retail developments as well as its transitoriented future, connections with hospitals and health services should be explored.

Information Technology Services

Build on Strengths and Opportunities

• Key technology niches in areas such as cybersecurity, data sciences (including artificial intelligence and machine learning), and quantum computing. • Frameworks in place to grow datacenters and other IT employment • Federal government helping drive IT growth, but opportunities to diversify this base

Address Weaknesses and Gaps

• High level of intra-regional competition (less specialized than regional peers) • Opportunities to better network the County’s IT workers • County employers struggle to attract top-tier talent

Information Technology Services, a cluster comprised of 739 establishments engaged in software development, communications, and computer services, employs 10,077 workers in the County. This cluster has an LQ of 1.38, signifying a concentration of employment 38 percent higher than the national average. While the County is specialized in this cluster, the County’s concentration of employment in this cluster is half the highly specialized regional concentration (Washington DC Metropolitan Area LQ of 2.78). Furthermore, although the County’s employment in IT services declined from 2013-2019, the JFI-TEConomy Team projects that this sector can return to growth and experience projected growth of 10% from 2019 to 2028.102 As a result, given the very high