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Archived 4 mistakes made when healthcare background screening and how to avoid them
Archived 4 mistakes made when healthcare background screening and how to avoid them

Hiring & Background Checks

Archived 4 mistakes made when healthcare background screening and how to avoid them

October 22, 2022

When hiring healthcare workers, you have a responsibility to your organization and the patients you serve to conduct appropriate and thorough [url="https://karmacheck.com/healthcare-industry-background-checks/"]healthcare background screenings[/url]. The medical industry holds a trusted position in society because human lives are at stake, and professionalism is the watchword at all levels of employment in this sector.

Whether you are the owner, CEO, or HR manager at your organization, you have a vested interest in maintaining the highest possible standards for the recruitment screening process. After all, the health and welfare of individuals under your care depends to a large extent on the quality of the people that you employ.

Indeed, criminal background checks for nurses and physicians are important processes that no healthcare organization would consider skipping. For example, you have to stay on top of healthcare sanctions screening, to avoid bringing onboard a worker who has been found to be in violation of the law or administrative regulations.

Due to the complex nature of completing background checks for hospital employment, most organizations use third-party companies to help them in this regard, to make sure they are operating in a “legally permissible way,” as noted by the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine’s report on [url="https://familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/11/Background-Checks-FR-2021.pdf"]Background Checks and the Health Workforce[/url].

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