Bring a formal valid driverâs license and a social security card to provide at time of hire. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For days after Gov. Salary rates for most of the health care professionals being hired for this emergency are listed in the California Health Corps are currently only accepting applications for the healthcare professions listed on the website. The staggering total included tents, shuttered state facilities and places like Sleep Train Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center.But California’s early and aggressive social distancing helped limit hospitalizations. And the ranks of those in line to join the corps have fallen precipitously.The state’s initial vetting revealed two-thirds — 60,000 volunteers — didn’t have the most basic requirement: a valid license to practice their specialty. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, Pool, File) They are also continuing to vet processes and standardize operations,” California Health and Human Services Agency spokesman Rodger Butler said in an email Thursday.“We fortunately, to this day, haven’t needed them,” Newsom said Friday. California Health Corps site scored 25,000 sign-ups in its first day, Governor Newsom says. "“But it’s kind of a good thing there is no prom date,” said Spetz, whose center researches issues related to Stephanie Roberson, California Nurses Association government relations director said it's more important the governor ensure all existing Even so, Roberson agreed that it's wise for California to have the medical workers ready to go if there is a second pandemic wave.
And about 20,000 of those remaining have not filled out an application, despite being sent a reminder.State data requested by The Associated Press shows about 10,500 people are in a final review and of those, 4,900 or about 5% of those who initially volunteered are cleared to participate.With hospitals able to handle their caseload, there isn’t a clearly defined role for the corps, but that hasn’t stopped the first deployment — 233 doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists and support staff have been working for more than a week at the emergency hospital at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento.They are being paid even though there are no patients.“Staff are standing by to support patients if needed. This is the system weâll use to verify your medical license (if you have one) and identify your deployment preferences. Nurse Corps awards scholarships and loan repayment to nurses, nursing students, and nurse facility. To care for Californians who need your help, please sign up.To be eligible for COVID-19 emergency medical staffing roles, you must:Both licensed professionals and students will have to register. To meet this moment, weâre opening additional health care sites to treat people affected by COVID-19 and to relieve the pressure on our health care system by providing care for non-COVID-19 cases.You will be paid and will be given malpractice insurance coverage. The volunteers are expected to work at places like the San Mateo County Event Center south of San Francisco, where hundreds of narrow beds have been set up six feet apart, the minimum health officials say is needed to avoid spreading the virus through a sneeze or cough. 265 Nurse Corps jobs available in California on Indeed.com. In response to coronavirus / COVID-19, we need healthcare providers, behavioral health professionals, and health care administrators to work in healthcare sites throughout California. About one-third of the state’s roughly 2,000 coronavirus deaths are nursing home patients.Patricia McGinnis, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform executive director, wouldn’t object to using the facilities to ease the crisis at nursing homes.The problem, she said, is that given their vulnerability, “I don’t know what a low acuity nursing home patient who has COVID looks like.”Associated Press writer Marina Villeneuve contributed to this story from Albany, N.Y.Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?