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PERM sponsor, #718 of 70,985 by filings
SJ Medical Center LLC
- Main job
- Nursing Assistants · 98% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Houston, TX · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · NAICS 622110
Waiting on a case with SJ Medical Center LLC?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
This rate is level with the field
Over 55 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 6.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Filings
55
#718 of 70,985
Certified
55
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$36,400
offered, per year
Median days
419
47 faster than the field
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 7 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow SJ Medical Center LLC
An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.
Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 80,340 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 55 published
- 0 pending
- $36,400 median, n=55
- Prevailing wage requests
- 4 published
- 0 pending
- 4 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
Every case across these programs is in the search.
How these are counted
Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by SJ Medical Center LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-23313-492689 Medical Technologist $46,072 per year 2023-11-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23306-474441 Medical Technologist $46,072 per year 2023-11-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23221-252310 CT Technologist $48,942 per year 2023-08-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23144-050819 Patient Care Assistant $23,234 per year 2023-05-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23074-850633 Patient Care Assistant 2023-03-15 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM approval rate
100.0% of 55 decided PERM cases
Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.
Approval rate
100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more
Median days to decision
419 daysahead of 81%
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 51 and 58 filings.
- Their median wait
- 468 days
- This one
- 419 days
This one sits 49 days ahead of them.
Why no approval rate
A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 718 of 70,985 by volume: 717 filed at least as many filings, and 70,267 filed no more.
- Just above
- Hittle Landscaping, Inc 55 filings
- Just below
- MORELLI'S GOURMET ICE CREAM & DESSERTS 55 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #717 Hittle Landscaping, Inc 55 filings · none denied
- #719 MORELLI'S GOURMET ICE CREAM & DESSERTS 55 filings · none denied
- #716 RP Restaurant, LLC 55 filings · none denied
- #720 R PLANTS INC 55 filings · none denied
- #715 ERIVES ENTERPRISES INC 55 filings · none denied
- #721 Schreiber Foods, Inc. 55 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Nursing Assistants, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #3 Management Health Systems, LLC 2,849 filings · none denied
- #54 National Healthcare Corporation 598 filings · 213 denied
- #66 Skilled In Management Co LLC 522 filings · 20 denied
- #33 Management Health Systems, LLC DBA MedPro 869 filings · none denied
- #114 PruittHealth 321 filings · 12 denied
- #167 United Methodist Homes & Services 226 filings · none denied
What they file, and where
A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.
What the jobs are
SOC 31-1131.00 · 54 filings, 98% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists 29-2011.001
How this is counted
These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 55 of 55 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
The industry they declared
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
NAICS 622110 · 55 filings
How this is counted
The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 55
How this is counted
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. This state covers 55 of 55 filings.
Where the work is
- Houston, TX 55
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 55 of 55 filings.
Who files for them
- Jackson Lewis P.C. 55 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 55 of 55 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 7 cases
Houston Chronicle
How this is counted
The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.
Additional steps it used
- 1 cases
The employer's website
- 1 cases
Job search websites
- 1 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
How this is counted
The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 100%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
How this is counted
Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.
History
Year by year since 2023
58 PERM decisions from FY2023 to FY2025, busiest in FY2024 with 48.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 3. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-23131-40790 | 2023-08-14 | withdrawn | Patient Care Assistant, TX | $36,400 |
| A-23131-40633 | 2023-05-17 | withdrawn | Patient Care Assistant, TX | $36,400 |
| A-23130-40409 | 2023-05-17 | withdrawn | Patient Care Assistant, TX | $36,400 |
Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Nursing Assistants, 54 of 55. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Volume doesn’t change the wait
- DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 55 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 718. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
- A median over 55 decided cases
- The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
- Two sources, and they do not add up
- The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is TX. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 21, 2026 · daily
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.