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The United States-based healthcare provider Banner Healthcare on Monday announced a tie-up with K K Modi Group company Healthcare Placements India Pvt Ltd for recruiting nursing professionals from India and said it has recruited about 150 nurses so far for its hospitals in the US.
"We have recruited about 150 nurses so far from India and would recruit about 50-100 nurses every six months," Paula Bradney, regional director, Banner Staffing Services, said in Mumbai.
The nurses would work for three days a week on a 12-hour shift and earn Rs 38 lakh during the two-year contract period with Banner, she said, adding the nursing professionals would go to the US on E3 immigrant visas which allow them to stay in US permanently.
Selected candidates would have to pass CGFNS and IELTS tests besides US Nursing board examination for working in that country.
She said the group was not looking for 'cheap labour' and the nurses would be paid equivalent to their American counterparts.
The recruitment and training of nurses for the tests would be done through HPIPL, she said, adding there was a need of four lakh nurses in hospitals in the US.
Banner Healthcare, one of the largest non-profit health care service in US with 20 hospitals, six long-term care centres and several family clinics, had earlier recruited about 100 nurses from the Philippines.