New Policies have “Chilling Effect” on Immigrants Employed in Long Term Care

The Trump administration’s immigration policies are reportedly impacting immigrants who are involved in the long-term care (“LTC”) workforce.  Specifically, the policies could make it harder to find workers for these jobs.  According to a study published by Health Affairs, immigrants make up nearly one quarter of the LTC workforce, in a profession which struggles to retain labor.  Immigrants make up 23.5 percent of the long-term care workforce, which includes family caregivers. Twelve percent of these immigrants are naturalized citizens, eight percent are legal non-citizens, and …

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Sexual Assault in Nursing Homes

On December 29, 2018, a 29-year-old woman in a vegetative and uncommunicative state gave birth to a baby boy.  The woman had been in a vegetative state for at least a decade after a near-drowning incident which caused brain drainage.  She had been a longtime resident of a healthcare facility in Phoenix.  The employees of the nursing home only became aware that the resident was pregnant when she was found moaning and it was discovered that the resident was in active labor.  Several news reports …

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