Nurse Shortages Are Set to Get Even Worse With Mass US Visa Delays
- Visa backlog indefinitely postpones arrival of 10,000 nurses
- Hospitals were already reeling from labor gaps left by Covid
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Erica DeBoer, the chief nurse at America’s largest rural health network, thought she could finally offer some relief for her overworked staff and thousands of patients. More than 160 reinforcement nurses were supposed to arrive over the coming months across Sanford Health’s Midwest facilities from as far away as Manila and Lagos, Nigeria.
But now, only 36 are coming — if they’re lucky.