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Henry Ford Health System to recruit 500 nurses from the Philippines to fill labor gaps
Crain's Detroit Business ^

Posted on 09/22/2021 5:04:36 PM PDT by MNDude

Ford Health System is turning to immigration to solve its ongoing nursing shortage. The Detroit-based health system filed paperwork last week with international recruiting firms to hire 500 nurses from the Philippines over the next few years.

Henry Ford Health has about 1,000 open nursing positions across its five hospitals and outpatient centers and is struggling to keep up with its patient load, Bob Riney, COO and president of health care operations, told Crain's from the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.

(Excerpt) Read more at crainsdetroit.com ...


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To: MNDude

Catholic hospitals have been doing this for years.


21 posted on 09/22/2021 5:41:41 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: algore

Thanks for the info.


22 posted on 09/22/2021 5:43:38 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: MNDude

If Duerte will let them out...he had placed some curbs on letting trained nurses leave the Filopines as he felt they were needed back home!


23 posted on 09/22/2021 5:43:38 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: PGR88

An RN with 5-10 years of experience can EASILY earn over $100K here in state I live in. How much more incentive do Americans need to get off their collective duff and get degree in nursing?


24 posted on 09/22/2021 5:45:05 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: dadgum

Vaccinated?


25 posted on 09/22/2021 5:46:59 PM PDT by bella1 (Mean Tweets 2024!)
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To: dadgum

The are generally very bright with a tendency to be too rigidly by the book but that’s like a lot of new nurses. Later when their medical “gut” matures, they are simply unbeatable. Because of their Christian Catholic backgrounds, they integrate into our country generally well. I love working with Filipino nurses... and doctors, too! I’ve never encountered any bad ones, at least, the ones who work in the ICU’s I’ve worked in.


26 posted on 09/22/2021 5:50:53 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: dadgum

Agree. This is not so much about money. A lot of people who coudl be RN’s choose instead the various NP specialties. Even more money there. Hospitals are sprouting like mushrooms in my neck of Florida. Somebody has to staff them.


27 posted on 09/22/2021 5:51:35 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: escapefromboston

Henry Ford Hospital is based in Detroit with Hospitals and Clinics scattered throughout the suburbs.

Usually Canadian Nurses work in Detroit Hospitals.
Usually, some are full time, some on-call and can go through the border with ease.

But Biden continues to keep the Canadian border shut down.
If those border crossings open up, we wouldn’t need overseas employment.

Amazing the Philippians can enter this country but not Canadians??
Moronic.


28 posted on 09/22/2021 5:51:40 PM PDT by David Chase
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To: MNDude

Ummm???

How do you just go get medical personnel from anywhere?


29 posted on 09/22/2021 5:54:10 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: bella1

I don’t know of any healthcare system in the USA that is not requiring their employees to be vaccinated. The hospital my wife works in already was short of RNs before COVID-19; the vaccine mandates as a condition of employment has recently exacerbated the labor shortage severely.


30 posted on 09/22/2021 5:55:03 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: dadgum

Someone posted an article that said many Alabama hospitals were not requiring vaccination.


31 posted on 09/22/2021 5:57:59 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: dadgum

The hospital system my daughter works for just today mandated the vaccine with the end date in January.


32 posted on 09/22/2021 6:02:50 PM PDT by bella1 (Mean Tweets 2024!)
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To: MNDude

So they fire American nurses for refusing the experimental Vax and then complain that they don’t have enough nursing staff?

The H1B visas were not supposed to be used to replace American workers, but that’s exactly what’s happening.


33 posted on 09/22/2021 6:03:09 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

How difficult is to obtain a vaccine certificate in the Philippines without being vaccinated?


34 posted on 09/22/2021 6:05:21 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: MNDude
I am a vet and use the VA health care system. Two things that strike me as insane policy is the use of MD Residents (who rotate out every 6 months or so) and Muslims as a primary care provider.
35 posted on 09/22/2021 6:11:58 PM PDT by ex91B10 (Just because you can doesn't mean you should. )
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To: MNDude

Do they know how to make TikTok videos? I think that’s a pre-requisite.


36 posted on 09/22/2021 6:18:30 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: dadgum

Living in the Philippines must suck if its a step up to move to Detroit. They’ll move here and then wave their flag, cook ethnic food and switch to their language when they don’t want to be understood. Why not stay in the fabulous Philippines?

The mix of Asians and Detroit blacks will be funny tho.


37 posted on 09/22/2021 6:20:10 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: algore
They fired them because they refused to submit to being medical experiment test subjects?
38 posted on 09/22/2021 6:20:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: dadgum

A large hospital chain in Oklahoma does not have mandates.
My daughters is DNP for them.
The head of infectious diseases refuses to take the shot.
Can’t mandate a shot and loose your key people.


39 posted on 09/22/2021 6:32:06 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: ex91B10

“the use of MD Residents (who rotate out every 6 months or so) and Muslims as a primary care provider”.

Visiting Pasco County, Florida, I was asked to select my doctor from the hospital’s photographic lineup.

Nearly half were wearing turbans!


40 posted on 09/22/2021 6:35:53 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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