NURSE Visa act would allow qualified nurses into US to alleviate shortages
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 24, 2024
The National Urgent Recruitment for Skilled Employees, or NURSE, Visa Act, introduced Monday, aims to allow some foreign nurses to work in the United States amid a labor shortage
Immigration policy could be boon for long-term care providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 21, 2024
A new federal policy on immigration could prove beneficial to long-term care providers,who have increasingly pointed to immigration reform as a vital step on the path toward long-awaited stability in the...
Immigration reform needed to solve caregiver shortage: Brookings
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 09, 2024
Immigration reform is necessary to expand the availability of caregivers, according to experts at the Brookings Institution.
Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
Fixing immigration system only 1 solution to workforce crisis: expert
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 27, 2024
The healthcare sector’s heavy reliance on immigrants underscores the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform, argues labor economist Ron Hetrick.
Support, data, immigration reform necessary to address caregiver workforce shortage
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 08, 2023
Supportive environments to increase retention, domestic and immigration policy reform, and solid data-gathering measures are among the recommendations coming out of a new report addressing the direct care...
Valuing workers more, ‘screaming about immigration reform’ are ways to address senior living labor...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 28, 2024
As senior living providers struggle to recruit and retain employees, industry veterans are looking at all options in their workforce recovery efforts.
Immigration a possible answer to ‘demographic drought’ draining state’s workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 19, 2023
A “demographic drought” brought about by an aging population, increasing retirements, declining fertility rates and lower immigration rates is threatening Minnesota’s workforce in general and in...
‘Unique’ senior living workforce challenges have 3 solutions, former Speaker Paul Ryan says
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 25, 2023
CHICAGO — Three keys to solving workforce shortages in senior living and skilled nursing are changes to the country’s social safety net, reforms to immigration policies, and the use of technology,...
Homeland Security says proposed rule for temporary foreign workers will help employers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security said that a proposed rule published Wednesday in the Federal Register will “modernize and improve” regulations related to the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker...