International healthcare accreditation

US Senate introduces AAIHR-endorsed proposal to address nursing shortage

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

The Senate bill, which boasts an impressive 14 original cosponsors, would recapture 25,000 previously issued but unused immigrant visas for qualified registered nurses and another 15,000 for physicians.

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  • The Senate bill, which boasts an impressive 14 original cosponsors, would recapture 25,000 previously issued but unused immigrant visas for qualified registered nurses and another 15,000 for physicians.
  • "The HWRA is one of the most urgently needed healthcare proposals I've ever seen in thirty years of staffing patient bedsides.
  • The HWRA would address this catastrophic visa freeze by recapturing and reallocating unused green cards from fiscal years when employment-based immigration was lower.
  • This approach would not create any additional green cards, nor would the nurses whose lawful immigration it enables displace any American worker because the nursing shortage is so severe.

Kyiv to Host International Healthcare Summit on War Zone Medicine

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- (JANZ Corporation) -- As war rages in Ukraine and Gaza, a former U.S. Surgeon General will be among the medical professionals gathering in Kyiv next week to discuss the challenges of providing medical care in active war zones.

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  • Surgeon General will be among the medical professionals gathering in Kyiv next week to discuss the challenges of providing medical care in active war zones.
  • To learn more and/or register to attend physically or virtually for the International Healthcare Summit-Ukraine 2023, please visit www.internationalhealthcaresummit.org .
  • "The situation in Ukraine is absolutely catastrophic," said Dr. Andrii Strokan, chief clinical medical officer at Feofaniya Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  • Strokan, who led the team of surgeons visiting the Mayo Clinic, will be joined in Kyiv at the healthcare summit by former Surgeon General of the United States (Acting), Rear Admiral
    (ret.)

Medical Thought Leaders to Convene in Ukraine for Collaborative Summit

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

COLUMBUS, OH, July 18, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - An International Healthcare Summit has been scheduled in Kyiv, Ukraine for Nov. 7-9, 2023.

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  • COLUMBUS, OH, July 18, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - An International Healthcare Summit has been scheduled in Kyiv, Ukraine for Nov. 7-9, 2023.
  • August Mission, a humanitarian non-profit agency, and JANZ Corporation, a global medical equipment supplier, will be hosting the Summit through the approval of the Kyiv Regional State and Military Administration.
  • This three-day Summit will feature discussions on medical innovation, education, and medical expertise, in various fields and modalities with an emphasis on military-related injuries and rehabilitation.
  • Summit logo in top center
    Discussion Tracks will include Battlefield Trauma (Hemorrhagic Shock, Traumatic BrainInjuries, Transport and etc.

AAIHR responds to US State Dept. retrogression of international nurse green cards

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

WASHINGTON, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment responded today to the State Department's May Visa Bulletin, indicating a catastrophic green card freeze for international nurses.

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  • WASHINGTON, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment responded today to the State Department's May Visa Bulletin, indicating a catastrophic green card freeze for international nurses.
  • to throttle green cards for international nurses
    The freeze means that only those nurses with green card petitions filed earlier than June 2022 may proceed with their green card interviews.
  • American hospitals, particularly those serving rural populations, would have collapsed long ago without the contributions of international nurses," remarked AAIHR President Patty Jeffrey, R.N.
  • The HWRA would not create any new visas but recapture old ones that have mothballed under bureaucratic inefficiency, thereby solving the State Department's visa retrogression.

Medical Tourism Moonshot: Breaking the Barriers to Quality Healthcare

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Tourism Association in collaboration with Global Healthcare Resources and the International Healthcare Research Center have launched the first Medical Tourism Moonshot to break down the major barriers preventing access and growth in medical tourism.

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  • PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Tourism Association in collaboration with Global Healthcare Resources and the International Healthcare Research Center have launched the first Medical Tourism Moonshot to break down the major barriers preventing access and growth in medical tourism.
  • With a target to add 5 million new medical tourists to the industry in 2028, the Medical Tourism Moonshot is integrating data-driven solutions with the best of resources and expertise in the medical tourism industry to facilitate a seamless network between patients, health payers (referral organizations) and high-quality treatments around the world.
  • The Medical Tourism Moonshot leverages extraordinary solutions and collaborative results from major players to produce results as never been seen before.
  • The aim is simple: to build a more sustainable industry by eliminating the barriers and complexities of conventional medical tourism models, as well as creating transparent access to data.

Medical Tourism Moonshot: Breaking the Barriers to Quality Healthcare

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Tourism Association in collaboration with Global Healthcare Resources and the International Healthcare Research Center have launched the first Medical Tourism Moonshot to break down the major barriers preventing access and growth in medical tourism.

Key Points: 
  • PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medical Tourism Association in collaboration with Global Healthcare Resources and the International Healthcare Research Center have launched the first Medical Tourism Moonshot to break down the major barriers preventing access and growth in medical tourism.
  • With a target to add 5 million new medical tourists to the industry in 2028, the Medical Tourism Moonshot is integrating data-driven solutions with the best of resources and expertise in the medical tourism industry to facilitate a seamless network between patients, health payers (referral organizations) and high-quality treatments around the world.
  • The Medical Tourism Moonshot leverages extraordinary solutions and collaborative results from major players to produce results as never been seen before.
  • The aim is simple: to build a more sustainable industry by eliminating the barriers and complexities of conventional medical tourism models, as well as creating transparent access to data.

AmerisourceBergen Reports Fiscal 2023 First Quarter Results

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Operating income as a percentage of revenue was 1.01 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, a decline of 7 basis points when compared to the prior year quarter.

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  • Operating income as a percentage of revenue was 1.01 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, a decline of 7 basis points when compared to the prior year quarter.
  • Diluted Earnings Per Share: Diluted earnings per share was $2.33 in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, a 9.4 percent increase compared to $2.13 in the previous fiscal year’s first quarter.
  • Adjusted gross profit as a percentage of revenue was 3.38 percent in the fiscal 2023 first quarter, flat when compared to the prior year quarter.
  • Revenue in International Healthcare Solutions was $6.6 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, a decrease of 0.6 percent from the previous fiscal year’s first quarter.

AAIHR survey: Majority of nurses eyeing the exits if staffing shortage not corrected

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Friday, January 20, 2023

Now, 75 percent of practicing registered nurses say they might leave medicine if the shortage isn't finally corrected.

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  • Now, 75 percent of practicing registered nurses say they might leave medicine if the shortage isn't finally corrected.
  • Seventy-five percent of nurses say their long-term plans to remain in the practice of medicine will be negatively impacted if the staffing shortage is not corrected, up from just one-third of respondents in a 2021 AAIHR survey.
  • Ninety-three percent of nurses say their hospital is experiencing a shortage, up from 59 percent of respondents in a 2020 AAIHR survey.
  • The survey, conducted by the AAIHR, sampled the opinions of 500 registered nurses between December 1-31, 2022.

Health Carousel Earns Recertification as an Ethical Recruitment Firm

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

CINCINNATI and PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Carousel, LLC and the Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices , a division of CGFNS International, Inc. , are pleased to announce that Health Carousel received recertification as a Certified Ethical Recruitment Firm in the recruitment of foreign-educated healthcare professionals.

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  • CINCINNATI and PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Carousel, LLC and the Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices , a division of CGFNS International, Inc. , are pleased to announce that Health Carousel received recertification as a Certified Ethical Recruitment Firm in the recruitment of foreign-educated healthcare professionals.
  • This announcement marks Health Carousel's first recertification since it achieved this accolade of ethical recruitment practices in 2020.
  • The review findings must demonstrate the firm is committed to ethical, responsible, and transparent recruitment practices as defined by the Alliance's Health Care Code for Ethical International Recruitment Practices.
  • "We are proud of Health Carousel's business practices, policies, and procedures that have earned us recertification as a Certified Ethical Firm by the Alliance," said John Sebastian, CEO of Health Carousel.

Motient Facilitates Over 5,000 Patient Transfers for 120 Healthcare Providers in 2021

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Motient, a pioneer in patient movement solutions, announced today that its web-based patient movement platform facilitated more than 5,000 patient transfers from 122 hospitals to more than 209 destinations in 2021.

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  • TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Motient, a pioneer in patient movement solutions, announced today that its web-based patient movement platform facilitated more than 5,000 patient transfers from 122 hospitals to more than 209 destinations in 2021.
  • The platform is now averaging an accelerated rate of 20 to 30 patient transfers per day and, on many days, sees more than 40.
  • Interfacility transfers typically arise when one facility lacks the specialized resources needed to properly care for a patient and play a key role in the delivery of optimal patient care.
  • Motient, a pioneer in patient movement solutions, equips hospitals, hospital systems, healthcare networks, and ACOs with the tools and data required to ensure quality care and value in patient transfers.