Promoting Safety and Integrity in Senior Care
When working with vulnerable populations, in-depth background checks aren’t just a good idea — they’re a requirement. Besides meeting industry and state regulations, screening your senior caregivers helps minimize your legal and financial risk, reassures your patients’ families that you’re performing due diligence and most importantly, helps keep your patients safe.
Below, we’ll describe what can be considered in a senior care employment background check, and how to perform them as quickly and easily as possible.
What kind of background checks do nursing homes do?
Accurate’s background checks give you the information you need to make the right hire the first time, regardless of where you’re hiring and the type of care setting. From basic criminal history to a comprehensive work history, we give you the data you need to make important hiring decisions.
Accurate’s nursing home caregiver background checks cover:
Criminal background checks
Comprehensive check of criminal history in the candidate’s home location, as well as relevant local, state and provincial courts, to identify potentially disqualifying convictions.
At Accurate, criminal background checks are supported by a compliance team that can provide education and help you stay compliant with relevant national, regional and local laws. This includes Fair Chance and Clean Slate laws that restrict how employers can use a candidate’s criminal information to make hiring decisions.
License and sanctions checks and monitoring
Accurate’s license and sanctions checks inform you of licensing violations, upcoming expirations, and new sanctions via email in near real-time. Accurate helps organizations maintain compliance and prevention of sanctions by leveraging Verisys FACIS® solutions to screen and monitor healthcare providers for exclusions, debarments and disciplinary actions across all jurisdictions
Abuse and regulatory compliance checks
A comprehensive check for any past violations or penalties from regulatory bodies like the FDA, as well as sex offender status and abuse registry checks.
Drug and/or occupational health testing
With Accurate, candidates can self-schedule these tests while submitting their background check information, all in one platform, and typically receive results in one day.
Education and employment verification
Accurate checks candidates’ education history to ensure they meet minimum qualifications, with most verifications taking less than two days on average.
Work history
Thorough search of past employment, including reference checks if requested.
The critical importance of senior care background checks
Senior caregiver background checks are critical for several reasons, including:
- Protect vulnerable individuals: Background checks help ensure that caregivers do not have a history of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and minimize your risk of workplace incidents, accidents and/or negligent hiring lawsuits.
- Build trust and provide peace of mind: Families need to trust the person who is caring for their loved one.
- Prevent theft or financial abuse: Seniors are often targets for financial scams or theft. Checking for prior convictions related to fraud or theft helps reduce the risk of financial exploitation.
- Maintain legal and regulatory compliance: Many states and agencies require background checks for caregivers by law.
- Provide the highest quality of care: A background check can also reveal the caregiver’s employment history and credentials, ensuring that they have the necessary experience and training.
- Make better hiring decisions: Accurate background checks help you hire the right technicians without sacrificing speed or efficiency. Hire with confidence knowing that you can trust the knowledge, experience, and character of all your candidates.
Hire senior caregivers you can count on
It’s hard enough to find caregivers you can trust. You can’t afford to lose them to slow, inaccurate or clunky background checks. The right background screening partner will help you expedite screening, spot the red flags that matter, and get your caregivers in the field quickly enough to make an impact.
That’s where Accurate comes in: We combine a mobile-optimized self-service interface with easy document upload, 24/7/363 customer service and support in 40+ languages, so your new hires can easily submit their information and check their status, and ask questions, no matter where they are.
Contact Accurate to learn more about our global background checks for senior caregivers.
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Disclaimer
The commentary above is not offered as legal advice but is instead offered for informational purposes. Accurate Background is not a law firm and does not offer legal advice. The above commentary is therefore not intended as a substitute for the legal advice of an attorney knowledgeable of the user’s individual circumstances or to provide legal advice. Accurate Background makes no assurances regarding the accuracy, completeness, currency, or utility of the preceding information.
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