LifeCare Hosting Community Meet and Greet for Filipino Employees

by Ryan Honl

The table at the executive board meeting room at LifeCare hospital last week was full of sketches and diagrams for an unique free event coming to Roseau on August 8 from 3-6 p.m.

The Filipino community has grown in the area and especially so with LifeCare hiring many of them to fill difficult to hire positions such as lab work, nursing, and nursing assistants. Currently there are many of them at the hospital and clinics. Thirteen more are soon on the way.

"We've had to recruit a lot of foreign staff since COVID," said Human Resources Director Lois Slick. "Our lab would be bare wit...