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.
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Where are they being well educated? US based nursing colleges?
Many, perhaps a majority, are natural born Americans. Thus it makes sense to recruit from the Phillipines as there are no visa issues, just the expenses of relocating. They grow up fluent in English, and for many of these English is there first language.
So, you are a-okay with existing American citizen’s being denied their job and livelihood, over an unconstitutional jab mandate....being replaced with imported nurses?
Just clarifying.
I have an idea.
Why don’t we let the UNJABBED nurses take care of the supposed flood of UNJABBED patients?
I LIKE your idea 😽
There’s no shortage of nurses in America. There’s a shortage of nurses still working as nurses in America. And its been that way for a long time.
And who couldn’t see that one coming either?
My daughter works at Troy Beaumont, Troy, Michigan. No mandate.
She lives in Canada and commutes to her job in Detroit. Yes, the border is open for some people.
Estimates are that up to 25% of Henry Ford employees are Canadian. There is obviously a huge shortage of nurses in the US. Henry Ford likes to hire Canadian RNs because they are well trained, well educated, and speak very good English. I guess they ran out of Canadians.
2-4 years for a nursing degree.
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