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Foreign Caregivers Recruited by National Nursing Home Firm
The Senior Journal
August 18, 2005
Foreign workers may provide the answer to the shortage of workers available to meet the mushrooming demand by skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. Beverly Healthcare, with 345 nursing homes, has hired 75 healthcare professionals from the Philippines and announced an agreement with a global healthcare staffing firm to increase this effort.
Beverly Healthcare announced an agreement with Universal Resources to recruit "quality, trained, frontline caregivers" to work in its nursing homes throughout the United States.
Beverly plans to utilize this recruiting source on an ongoing basis in combination with a "very aggressive" healthcare professional sourcing strategy in the United States.
According to the National Academy for an Aging Population, the number of Americans needing long term care services will reach 10 million by the year 2018 -- an increase from just 7 million in 1997. Coupled with a nationwide caregiver shortage, long-term care providers are seeking innovative ways to secure their workforce.
"Our partnership with Universal Resources is an example of how Beverly is addressing the critical workforce shortage faced by the entire long-term care industry and -- most importantly -- ensuring the delivery of quality care for the elderly men and women we serve," said Jim Scott, Beverly's Director of Corporate Recruitment.
"We are extremely impressed with Universal Resources' professionalism and capabilities, and with the large number of highly experienced and qualified healthcare professionals they are able to source on our behalf. We have found these individuals to be very well suited to Beverly and the company's commitment to delivering quality, compassionate healthcare to an aging population," added Scott.
The agreement names Universal Resources as Beverly's preferred recruitment partner in the Philippines. Universal Resources will provide comprehensive international staffing services through the targeted selection and placement of qualified, dedicated and experienced healthcare professionals into the Beverly Healthcare system.
Universal Resources will provide a full cycle of international staffing services to Beverly's nationwide network leveraging Universal's state-of-the-art technology, their strong cultural immersion protocols, as well as Universal's corporate strength and extensive history in placing quality healthcare professionals for providers in the acute care setting since 1990.
"Beverly has a set of high standards and expectations that we know we can meet and exceed in the course of our business relationship," said Mike Saegh, Vice Chairman of Universal Resources.
"We look forward to a long-term partnership with Beverly as their international staffing solutions provider. It is a core mission of our company to develop a long-term strategy for our clients guaranteeing the successful delivery of quality healthcare through the recruitment and placement of experienced and qualified healthcare professionals."
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