Some complain that the healthcare system in this country is a mess. This can be argued in a dozen different ways, but one thing that stands out is the shoddy oversight involving the employment screening of healthcare workers. In many places, responsible agencies do not conduct background checks. Or if they do conduct background checks on healthcare employees, they are sparse and shoddy and quite often they are not carefully reviewed. Criminal charges and patient abuses, sexual offenses, fall between the cracks, unnoticed.
Slipper Staffing agencies concerned only with getting their people hired and not with the welfare of the patients their staff will service will either fail to conduct background checks or not be overly concerned with any records that might turn up. And in some of the best case scenarios executives in charge of overseeing the new employment recruits just don’t bother reading the background checking reports. This being said, most staffing agencies and public service agencies do their best to conduct background checks and carefully screen their job applicants. But when failures occur, they make the news.
The State of Kentucky will be receiving a federal grant in order to issue more statewide background checks on healthcare employment candidates. According to Bowling Green Today, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services will be able to purchase machines for digital fingerprint background checks. Kentucky is one of eleven states to receive this federal grant.
