HLG Blog: Retrogression Battle Continues
Read about HLG’s ongoing effort to work on Congress to have a Schedule A visa bill passed that ends retrogression. This month’s Blog entries include: how this summer’s immigration legislation battle impacts our effort to end Schedule A retrogression, information about our Coalition strategy, a look ahead at key dates this fall, and many other entries. Are you checking it regularly?
http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/

Symposium on the International Recruitment of Healthcare Workers
On October 12, HLG will hold its annual west coast Symposium on the International Recruitment of Healthcare Workers at the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The Symposium is free to all clients and friends of the firm. Please register early. This event is limited to the first 100 guests. We have a few spots left.
http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/hc_symposium_10_2007.htm

Immigration and the Elderly: Foreign-Born Workers in Long-Term Care
Walter N. Leutz for the Immigration Policy Center finds that “given the growing demand for immigrants to fill direct-care jobs, it is in the best interests of long-term care clients, providers, and workers if governments and private donors foster high-quality training and placement programs rather than leaving the future of the direct-care industry to chance.”
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/infocus_0708.pdf

WSJ Diagnosis: Critical
It's been reported that the dysfunctional U.S. immigration system contributes to labor shortages in agriculture. Less well-known is that low green card quotas have also left the United States with an undersupply of nurses that threatens patient care, says the Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118955908785924562.html

AOL and Business Week: A Critical Shortage of Nurses
The U.S. is facing a severe nursing shortage. Already, an estimated 8.5 percent of the nursing positions in the U.S. are unfilled -- and some expect that number to triple by 2020 as 80 million baby boomers retire and expand the ranks of those needing care.
http://jobs.aol.com/article/_a/a-critical-shortage-of-nurses/20070904105409990001

CGFNS Symposium on the Healthcare Immigration
On December 2, CGFNS will be hosting a “Building Global Alliances in a World of Healthcare Inequities” Symposium. The Symposium will bring together thought leaders, clinicians, researchers and policy makers to discuss new health system features and actions that address health inequity.
http://www.cgfns.org/files/pdf/news/10-02-07_newsrelease.pdf

2nd Annual National Data Use Conference
The American Nurses Association is hosting the second annual National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) conference January 30 - February 1, 2008 at Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, A Loews Hotel- Orlando, FL
http://www.nursingworld.org/HomepageCategory/UpcomingEvents/NDNQI2008.aspx

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