hard time finding people to hire. I have a clinical concern for my own patients being able to get the care they need.”
Zallman and her colleagues used data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics to estimate how many immigrants work in all of the sectors of the U.S. health care industry.
They found that about 18% of all health care workers are immigrants, more than their 15.5% share of the nation’s population.
Immigrants also account for about 23% of employees in the long-term care sector.
About 27% of direct care workers — home health and personal care nurses and aides — are immigrants, and immigrants also account for
