International talent keeps American hospitals running

Hospital workers born abroad have been mainstays of the U.S. health care system for decades.

Source: Author's calculations based on American Community Survey microdata. Survey weights were used to compute the mean, or average, share. "Hospital workers” follows the ACS definition and includes both clinical and nonclinical staff employed by hospitals.
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