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Immigrant Health-Care Workers in the United States

ARTICLE: Nearly 2.8 million immigrants worked in the U.S. health-care sector in 2021, representing disproportionately high shares of ...

Think Immigration: I Wish People Understood that the U.S. ...

Immigrants compose 25% of the health aid workforce. As care needs from Baby Boomers increase and Gen X ages, these physically demanding roles ...

Understanding the Role of Immigrants in the US Health Sector

According to the report, immigrants accounted for 18.2% of all health care workers in the United States in 2017, compared to 13.7% in the ...

Integrating Immigrant Health Professionals into the U.S. Healthcare ...

In 2018, 15.6% of healthcare practitioners and technical occupations and 22.4% of healthcare support workers were immigrants [2]. Relative to ...

Health and Health Care Experiences of Immigrants: The 2023 KFF ...

A large majority (84%) of immigrant adults report they have received or tried to receive medical care in the U.S., and most say they saw a ...

Immigrant Health-Care Workers in the United States

ARTICLE: Immigrants make up a disproportionately high number of U.S. health-care workers, from doctors and nurses to home health aides.

The Impact of Immigrants on Health Care in the United States

Immigrant workers have been particularly vital during the COVID-19 crisis. The huge role they play in the home health aide industry has kept many disabled and ...

Health Care Worker Certification | USCIS

Health Care Worker Certification · Education, training, licensing, and experience that: · The necessary level of competence in oral and written ...

The Growing Demand for Healthcare Workers

Although there is a growing need for healthcare workers, many immigrants who received specialized training abroad cannot practice in the state.

Immigration to address the caregiving shortfall - Brookings Institution

In sum, America's rapidly aging population, coupled with an acute shortage of direct care workers, threatens to exacerbate an ongoing crisis in ...

AHA Senate Statement on Flatlining Care: Why Immigrants Are ...

Recent studies show that 18.2% of U.S. health care workers were born outside of the U.S. For example, 29% of U.S. physicians are born in other ...

Improving the Experiences of Immigrant Women in the Health Care ...

Most immigrant health care workers in the United States have some type of lawful immigration status, but research by CAP in 2021 found that ...

Healthcare and Immigration - New American Economy

In many health occupations, from surgeons to home health aides, immigrants already make up a large share of active workers. As the U.S. population continues to ...

Immigrant health care workers are central to the system

Nearly 2.8 million immigrants were employed as health-care workers in 2021, accounting for more than 18 percent of the 15.2 million people in the United States ...

Trapped at work: Immigrant health care workers can face harsh ...

Nurses and other health care workers who have been brought to the U.S. from overseas to fill thousands of vacant jobs say in some instances ...

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Support for Immigrant Direct Care ...

Immigrants constitute at least 27% of the direct care workforce in the U.S., a sector critical for long-term care of older adults and people ...

Immigrant Health Care Workers by Occupation and State

Immigrants are overrepresented in health care in the United States overall and in most states. In 2018, immigrants were 16.3 percent of the U.S. ...

Immigrants in the Health Care Workforce: An Explainer

Many immigrant doctors and some nurses can obtain work authorization through the United States' temporary or permanent employment-based ...

Immigration Options and Professional Requirements for Foreign ...

Foreign health care workers who seek to work in the United States temporarily typically use the following nonimmigrant visa categories: H-1B, H- ...

Immigrant Health Care Providers in the United States - SpringerLink

Immigrants have played a significant role in the provision of health care to Americans. The experience of immigrant physicians, nurses, and other health ...