HOSA

HOSA is a global student-led organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services and several federal and state agencies. HOSA’s mission is to empower HOSA-Future Health Professionals to become leaders in the global health community, through education, collaboration, and experience. HOSA actively promotes career opportunities in the health industry and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. HOSA’s goal is to encourage all health science instructors and students to affiliate and be actively involved in the HSE-HOSA Partnership.

It is difficult to realize that the initial idea for this national group began as “a gleam in the eyes” of a few caring and far‑sighted Health Occupations Education leaders in the 60’s and early 70’s and: 

• was first conceived by six (6) charter states at the organizing meeting in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in November 1975

• was officially organized at a Constitutional Convention held in Arlington, Texas, in November, 1976 

• attendees at the Constitutional Convention included state supervisors/advisors, teachers and over three hundred (300) student leaders 

• comprised only six (6) states with nearly 6000 student members 

• focused on limited supportive nursing, dental, medical and related occupations programs, as well as organized pre-technical programs in health careers approved by a State Department of Education.