Two stories and photographs from UVA Hospital's Draw Sheet about internationally educated nurses from the Philippines and Thailand who work at UVA Hospital. The nurses work at the hospital under the auspices of the U.S. State Department's Exchange Visitor Program (EVP). Congress established the EVP in 1948. Participants of the EVP came to the U.S. for up to two years to work and study in sponsoring institutions, which provided them with a monthly stipend. The ANA and individual hospitals, including UVA Hospital and other Virginia hospitals, were among the several thousand sponsoring U.S. agencies and institutions. By the late 1960s, Filipino nurses constituted the overwhelming majority of internationally-educated nurses who entered the U.S.
1964 to 1967
Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia
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