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Sanctioned Nurses Exploit Background Checking Loopholes
Health care organizations are unknowingly hiring sanctioned or disciplined nurses with a history of endangering patients, drug theft and abuse as a result of insufficient background checking processes...
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5 Hidden Gaps in Health Care Pre-Employment Screening Programs
When you take the subway in London, each time the train doors open and close an announcer says, “Mind the gap,” to prevent passengers from falling on their way out. Many health care employers also need...
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3 Strategies for Meeting Center for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) State...
It has been a longstanding CMS policy that if a party is excluded or sanctioned in one state, they are to be excluded from working in health care in all states. In the past, health care organizations...
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5 Best Practices for Health Care Temporary Staff and Vendor Screening
Every new hire in the health care industry carries potential risk. The risk remains the same whether that new hire is a direct employee of the health care organization or an indirect employee such as a...
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3 Trends Point to Increased Temporary Hiring in Health Care and Inherent Risk
In a few years, the health care industry will experience an explosive increase in the need for temporary workers driven by changes in population, demographics, economics and policy. Below we’ll...
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Overcoming the 4 Main Challenges of Health Care Contingent Worker Background...
Any worker hired on a temporary basis by a health care organization is known as a contingent worker or non-employee. Contingent workers can be directly hired by an organization’s human resources...
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4 Best Practices for Closing the Health Care Temporary Worker Screening Gap
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the number of temporary workers has dramatically increased over previous years. After the economic downturn in 2004, temporary workers accounted...
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Top 3 Best Practices to Help Overcome Background Screening and Hiring...
In addition to identifying the common background screening best practices of leading health care providers, the HireRight Health Care Spotlight also summarizes the key challenges that those...
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5 Best Practices for Health Care Employment Drug & Alcohol Screening
Although employment screening in the health care industry is highly regulated, drug and alcohol testing is often not required by law. Drug and alcohol screening is vital because an individual with...
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Types of Background Checks that Mitigate the Risk of Health Care Data...
Over 16 years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted provisions to protect health care data privacy and security and there have been other regulations and...
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Smokers May Be Making Your Organization Sick
Part 2 in the Series on a Smoking Ban for New Hires In HireRight’s Part 1 article, we discussed certain issues you should take into consideration before implementing a smoking ban on new hires in your...
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Red Flags without Due Diligence
We understand how difficult it can be to keep up with all the changes occurring with the EEOC and the other regulatory bodies in the healthcare world. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just schedule a...
View ArticleHealth Care Best Practices
Health care providers need to meet several federal and state compliance requirements in order to reduce fraud and protect their patients. This includes verifying licenses and conducting a comprehensive...
View ArticlePros and Cons of Various Drug Testing Specimens
What is the preferred specimen (urine, saliva, hair) for use in a workplace drug testing program? Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut answer. The choice depends on a variety of factors including:...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana: The Surprising New Challenge for Employers
Marijuana laws are changing across the country, and having a surprisingly profound impact on employers – not just in Colorado. In addition to the existing 24 states and District of Columbia that have...
View ArticleNew Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has revised the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs for urine testing (73 FR 71858). The post New Guidelines for Federal...
View ArticleHiring Managers: Fasten Your Seat Belts!
2017 is shaping up to be a year unlike any other. The changes that may affect the way you do your job are varied and significant. And we’re not only talking politics here; there’s a sea change in the...
View ArticleThe Unsung Healthcare Heroes [Podcast] – Health Care HR Week
HireRight would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Health Care Human Resources Professionals for their hard work and dedication in making our communities a better place to live by bringing...
View ArticleHow to Promote Breast Cancer Awareness in the Workplace
Early detection can prove critical in the treatment of breast cancer. And organizations – as well as their valued employees – can significantly benefit from company-sponsored health and wellness...
View ArticleTypes of Background Checks that Mitigate the Risk of Health Care Data...
Over 16 years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted provisions to protect health care data privacy and security and there have been other regulations and...
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