Thousands Of Nurses Overseas Awaiting Visa Processing As Hospitals Struggle To Staff Beds Immigrant nurses have been essential to healthcare delivery in the United States for more than 70 years, helping to maintain a delicate staffing balance in the face...

“Our caregivers are exhausted. They’re fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually,” Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators this week.  VanOsdol and other hospital administrators were in Tallahassee to brief lawmakers...

The frontline in the fight against the coronavirus is crumbling, and Washington is unfazed. Traumatized and overburdened nurses in every corner of the country are eying the exits. Many have already vacated the bedside for early retirement or careers outside...

The Department of State last week updated its visa processing protocols to provide a possible pathway for emergency visa processing of foreign healthcare workers. The move comes as American hospitals are being crushed and the weight of the delta variant. At the...