Georgia Immigration Law Trips Up Doctors And Nurses
Excerpt:Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state. The law requires everyone — no matter where they were born — to prove their citizenship or legal residency to renew their professional licenses. With too few state workers to process the extra paperwork, licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are expiring. Lisa Durden with the secretary of state's office says renewing a license used to be a straightforward process and most applications whizzed through. Now, they crawl. Enactment of the law coincided with budget cuts that reduced the office staff by 40 percent. Kelly Farr, Georgia's deputy secretary of state, says 600 nurses alone have fallen through the cracks. "There's nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing...
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Lisa Durden
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| 0 | "We really don't have a way to do that," says Durden. |
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Kelly Farr
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| 0.339394 | "There's nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing ... she's being slowed down because we literally don't have enough people to click the approve button," Farr said. ... |
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LaSharn Hughes
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| -0.0798379 | "And by Monday, we'd burned up a fax machine," Hughes said. ... |
| -0.0798379 | "And by Monday, we'd burned up a fax machine," Hughes said. "We didn't have the staff. We didn't have the equipment." |
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D.A. King
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| -0.0338935 | "I am not only outraged, but sincerely disappointed and puzzled that our repair legislation was not allowed a vote," King says. ... |
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Donald Palmisano Jr.
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| 0.536288 | "We're not aware of any undocumented immigrants that are physicians," Palmisano said. ... |
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Gov. Nathan Deal
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Georgia Immigration Law Trips Up Doctors And Nurses
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A new immigration law in Georgia requires everyone licensed by the state to prove citizenship. But the law is having an unintended consequence: many health care workers, included doctors and nurses, are losing their licenses because of a paperwork backlog.
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