When Felice Abad arrived at Henry Ford hospital in 2001 it was an entire new world. New language, new office, new nation.
As a nurse, she had been recruited from the Philippines as a result of a extreme nursing scarcity in Michigan. The method took months with paperwork and visas earlier than she bought to Detroit in November 2001 along with her husband, Leo, and their 3-year-old son.
“We have been all immigrants, we needed to apply for Social Safety numbers, Secretary of State,’’ Abad mentioned. Her husband didn’t have a job lined up. He stayed house for just a few years to maintain their son.
She was within the first batch of 300 nurses introduced from the Philippines to Henry Ford on the time. When the others got here in, she was there to welcome them with open arms.
“It was similar to a pleasant factor for us as a result of we understood what it’s, we simply volunteered. We have been those serving to out a lot in order that the subsequent yr, the company employed my husband to do this, to be the hospitality individual, meet them on the airport, cater to their wants, deliver them to the hospital every single day till they’re able to get their very own license,’’ Abad mentioned.
Twenty-one years later, Abad continues to be a nurse at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and she or he’s prepared to assist welcome one other new batch of nurses from the Philippines beginning as early as mid-summer.
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