Healthcare Workers Moving to Canada

[GardenGnome]

This article recently appeared in a web newsletter that serves the Cowichan, Nanaimo and Comox Valley regions on Vancouver Island, B.C. It refers to Todd Maffin, who created the Nanaimo Infusion event, inviting Americans to visit Nanaimo this past April, who has altered his website "to add resources for people interested in moving to Vancouver Island and working in the health-care system." There's a link to his site in the article.

U.S. health-care workers are flocking to Nanaimo, and at least one told The Discourse their move is a direct spin-off from the Nanaimo Infusion event that welcomed hundreds of American visitors to the city this spring.

Brandy Frye is a registered nurse from Califorina who was in Nanaimo this week with her 13-year-old son Bruce to meet her new boss at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital — where she’ll be working in the emergency department.

Frye said the reason she’s moving to Nanaimo is because she doesn’t see a future for her son in the U.S. under the Trump administration.

“I’m not proud to be American anymore,” she said. “I just can’t believe this is happening. But it is, so I’m making calculated steps to ensure that my son has a future, because I really don’t see a future there.”

https://thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/meet-one-of-the-u-s-health-care-workers-moving-to-nanaimo

[Vogon_Glory]

1. It's when health practitioners from Idaho and Utah pack up and leave

that red-state politicos ought to start sweating—but they won’t. They’ve had their booster shots from facing reality.

[GardenGnome]

3. If I were a healthcare professional

and I'm not, those are the areas I would want to leave as fast as possible. But feeling that way, I would probably never have gone there in the first place.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. I live in Nanaimo and love it here

The island has the mildest weather in all of Canada, both winter and summer.

It’s beautiful here, and political insanity is kept pretty well in check by the voters, at least at the present.

[KT2000]

4. As I understand it

healthcare workers can usually get into Canada. It is really difficult for others though.

[GardenGnome]

5. Even for healthcare workers it's apparently a ten-step process

The website mentioned puts the steps involved for healthcare workers in one place to help them work out what they have to do. Here's a more general site on Canadian immigration.

https://www.globalopp.ca/questions-about-canadian-immigration-processes

[carpetbagger]

6. The Western provinces need to fast-track GP licensure for U.S. docs.

B.C. is trying to recruit, but an American family physician can't fast-track into practice like in Ontario and Nova Scotia.