RNs, Filipino Community Groups Charge Sutter Health/California Pacific with Hiring Ban on Filipino Nurses

By Henni Espinosa - ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
More than a hundred caregivers picketed government offices during a one-day protest action against budget cuts in San Mateo County.

By Steve Angeles- ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
New nursing graduates are advised to be more patient and flexible in order to find jobs in the US.

By Rodney Jaleco
The Maryland Department of Labor reversed an order that withheld unemployment benefits from one of three Filipina nurses who were fired from a Baltimore hospital for speaking Tagalog.

By Maricar Hampton
Nurse Edel Pimentel believes that Filipino health care providers will be especially able to deal with the demands of the 78 million aging boomers in the United States — plus their elderly parents — once they enter a healthcare facility, because Filipinos are “natural caregivers.”