Foreign Nurses Fault Philadelphia Acting Company as Gatekeeper into U.S.
Pam Ladds is livid. The British nurse has been trying for years to get a job in the United States, which faces a persistent shortage of nurses.Instead, a little-known screening company rejected Ladds’ credentials because her nursing-school credits were not tallied up. And it told her three times that she had to pay for a test to prove proficiency in English.
“They must be joking! I speak better English than you do,” said Ladds, a Yorkshire native now living in Catskill, NY, and looking for work.
The demands emanated from a nonprofit company in University City that serves as the nation’s gatekeeper for immigrant nurses - with no competition and little government oversight.
The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools expects to take in $ 15 million this year from more than 56000 nurses worldwide. That’s over three times more than in 1996, when it was granted sole authority to screen foreigners seeking a U.S. visa or nursing license.
But some nurses, nurse recruiters, immigration experts and hospitals say the company has delayed or fumbled the applications of an unknown number of qualified immigrants. They say it functions as a monopoly with forbidding, sometimes inaccessible, customer service.
At the same time, the nonprofit corporation since 1995 has spent $ 1.5 million on lobbying, litigation and legal advice in Washington and abroad to secure and expand its business, according to IRS filings.
The company’s “grip” over nurse credentialing, in one recruiter’s words, is colliding with the labor shortage that has left one in 10 nursing jobs vacant.
With immigrants now accounting for a third of new U.S. nurses each year, some hospitals, recruiters and regulators are demanding alternatives or improvements to the company’s screening process, which can take six months to two years.
Some experts fear that the waiting times may worsen in July, when the company starts screening thousands of Canadian nurses, whose current NAFTA-based exemption will end under a new federal rule.
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