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Charity Helps Immigrants Re-Enter Field of Health Care

By Nicole Wallace

Like any nurse, Maia Shur can start an IV and dress a wound. But she brought another important skill when she started working at the Brookline Health Care Center, a nursing home just outside of Boston: the ability to speak Russian.

For the sizable number of Russian-speaking residents at the center, it meant they had someone they...

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