Nurses recruited to bridge staffing gap in Maryland

LifeBridge Health launched a major recruitment campaign for experienced nurses to help bridge a gap in staffing. A myriad of issues that include the COVID-19 pandemic, rising patient acuity and early retirement of nurses, among other reasons, contributed to a shortage of nurses. Sinai Hospital will eventually have 200 nurses from countries around the world. The hospital in northwest Baltimore is using its simulation lab to train newly recruited nurses who are coming from Kenya, Taiwan, Jamaica, the Philippines, Korea and Nigeria, to name a few.