Filipino-American historian traces the history of Philippine nurses in the US

To Filipino-American historian Ren Capucao, hospitals smell like home.Growing up in Virginia Beach, Capucao would often visit his mother at Chesapeake Regional Medical Centre, where she worked as a nurse for three decades.“People find it weird,” he said with a laugh. “For me, visiting the hospital was a fun thing. I would see all these Filipino health care workers at the hospital, and most of them were nurses.”It did not seem unusual – in the Filipino family in which he was raised, it was…