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Originally Posted by Inexes@aol.com
I have no idea where you get your information but as a Home Health Nurse, for 40+ years in Florida, YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. 20 years in St Pete, 20 years here in The Villages. Employed by 5 of the major HH Agencies in the state.
At not one of those agencies was the majority of employees anything but white American born males & females....... And those who were not white American born were treated no differently than those of us who were white. The only exception I will make, and it didn't matter if we were white or "other", most did not want to work in TV because most often we were treated as less than equal. I never encountered the discrimination anywhere in HHC as I did here in TV. If I decided to let them know that I was a resident, ie, "one of them", then the "attitude" adjusted.
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I mis-wrote, and corrected my post. I should have said home health aides, not home health nurses. I apologize for that.
There's been a few neighbors who've had home health aides - none of them were white, or male. The ones I've spoken to were either Haitian or Jamaican, except for one from Barbados.
My mom has gone through over a dozen of them - she has to have 24/7 care at home. Not a single one of them was white. She has three currently - one every night, one weekdays, and one for the weekend days. Two are from Haiti. One is Jamaican.
On the east coast of southern Florida, it's mostly Haitians and Jamaicans who care for folks who needs 24/7 care at home. I have no idea why that is so, but - it's so.