Immigration reform increasingly urgent to addressing LTC workforce crisis: experts
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Josh Henreckson
Mar 28, 2024
As workforce challenges continue to hound long-term care providers, sector experts increasingly point to immigration reform as a vital step on the path toward long-awaited stability.
Researchers dissect LTC’s immigrant workforce, push for even more
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 09, 2024
Immigrant care workers make up an increasingly large share of the nursing home workforce — largely because US-born certified nursing assistants have fled the sector, a new study in Health Affairs confirmed...
Exploitation concerns persist as push for immigrant workers grows
By
Josh Henreckson
Dec 13, 2023
Immigrant nurses are already a key demographic in long-term care, and are likely to become more vital in the future. But allegations of coercive labor practices by some providers and staffing agencies...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, July 5
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 05, 2022
Providers: Fix would speed immigrant nurse validation by months … Long COVID more common in women, adults aged 50 to 60 years, study finds … Late-stage MS drug trial put on hold to examine cases...
Providers: Fix would speed immigrant nurse validation by months
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 01, 2022
A long-term care coalition is calling on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to address an ongoing issue at its Texas premium processing unit that’s causing “significant delays” in tapping...
This ‘less costly’ staffing fix can’t get past the border
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2022
A larger pool of immigrants in the U.S. could both improve nursing homes’ ability to hire for frontline positions and reduce dependency on institutional care in the long-term, speakers at a healthcare...
Untracked COVID: Nursing home workers have died at twice the rate of hospital workers
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 09, 2021
Nursing home care providers have the sad distinction of accounting for a large proportion of healthcare workers’ COVID deaths, according to new 2020 data that was not tracked by the U.S. government....
Also in the News for Tuesday, Feb. 6
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 06, 2018
NY Times draws new attention to role immigrants play in elder care … Federal watchdog says patchwork of regulation jeopardizing assisted living residents … Facing lawsuit, VA extends home healthcare...
Colorado businessman found guilty of forcing foreign nurses to work in U.S. nursing homes
By
Ashley Carman
Jul 03, 2013
Kizzy Kalu, the Colorado businessman on trial for luring nurses to the U.S. under false pretenses, was found guilty on 89 criminal counts Monday, including trafficking in forced labor.