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How Green Card Freeze Could Impact US Hospitals; Ochsner Gets Blowback for Nurse Layoffs · Becker’s Healthcare - Clinical Leadership Podcast

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
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  Here's your industry news brief for Wednesday, May 17th. First,
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  nurses overseas who want to work in the US will need to wait until next year.
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  Only nurses who submitted applications by last June will be considered for
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  visas. The application usually takes around 10 months.
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  Hospitals are now waiting to hear more international nurses who have moved,
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  earned their US nursing license and passed English fluency tests.
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  Also must wait.
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  Sanford Health is trying to hire 800 international nurses.
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  It says this will definitely affect its workforce.
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  Stanford has already onboarded 270 international nurses.
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  Another 400 were expected this year. However,
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  they now aren't expected for another six to eight months.
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  The federal government says hospitals shouldn't expect to see more immigrant
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  nurses until 2025.
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  This is assuming the application process reopens in
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  October 2nd. In the last year,
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  10 hospitals faced a possible loss of Medicare or Medicaid funding from CMS
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  eight regained their compliance. However,
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  these hospitals aren't always graded poorly in other methodologies.
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  The Leap Frog Groups annual hospital rankings this year includes five hospitals
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  at risk for losing funding aid. They're St.
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  Michael Medical Center in Washington,
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  new Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina,
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  university of North Carolina Medical Center,
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  Wilson Medical Center in North Carolina,
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  and John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center in California.
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  All of these hospitals received a seat or higher.
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  Third,
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  Texas health officials are warning clinicians about cases of suspected fungal
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  meningitis among Texas residents who had surgery in Mexico.
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  One person has died and four people are currently hospitalized.
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  All five individuals recently traveled to Montes, Mexico.
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  Their surgeries,
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  all included in epidural health officials are still investigating the source
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  whether cases are related and if there may be more cases for
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  patients with symptoms of nervous system infection.
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  The Health Department says this infection.
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  Fourth disability advocates and community members are criticizing Mass General
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  Bringham for its masking policy.
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  Many immunocompromised people are worried about staying safe with mass
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  requirements dropping.
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  Some hospitals are dropping mass in specific departments like oncology. However,
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  mass General is one that's dropping it entirely.
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  It changed his policies twice this month. In its first rendition.
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  It noted that patients could not ask staff to mask because it's no longer
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  required.
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  Following a complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department
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  and HHS Mass.
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  General removed this from its website and now says,
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  patients may ask providers determine if is
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  necessary.
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  It's
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  fifth.
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  A Louisiana Senator is questioning O Health's C and c o about
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  its recent nurse layoff. Last week,
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  Ossner eliminated 770 positions.
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  This is about 2% of its workforce and a memo to employees,
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  CEO Pete November says,
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  effective positions were in management and primarily non-direct patient care
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  roles. It notes that no physicians were affected, however,
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  the memo did not contain any language about nurses. Specifically,
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  the next day, Louisiana Senator Gregory Tarver issued a letter to Mr.
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  November and c Ofield.
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  He expressed concern about nurses inclusion in the layoffs. Mr.
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  Carver claims RNs, LPNs, and family nps are being laid off.
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  He notes this is confusing given that NER has complained about nursing shortages
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  and Ochsner's spokesperson told Becker's.
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  It's working with more than 40 employees who have expressed interest in
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  continuing employment at the system.
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  It says this includes moving people in management positions to frontline nursing
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  positions. Thanks, Philistine.
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