A "good enough" background check might actually be good enough for a lot of industries: healthcare is not one of them.
Place a clinician at the bedside, send a caregiver into a patient's home, or staff a critical hospital department, and background screening stops being a procurement line item. It becomes ... Read More
Ashley McManus
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May2026
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Apr2026
AI is everywhere in 2026. Every vendor pitch deck seems to promise "AI-powered" everything; faster decisions, lower costs, fewer errors. Background screening is no exception.
But if you're responsible for hiring in healthcare or healthcare staffing, you can't afford to adopt AI just because it's trendy. You need an approach that ... Read More
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Apr2026
If your hiring volume has dipped and your team has more breathing room than it did a year ago, you are in a better position than you might think. Slower periods tend to surface inefficiencies that rapid growth buried, and nowhere do those inefficiencies hide more quietly than inside a ... Read More
13
Apr2026
A recap of a joint Universal Background Screening & Verisys webinar
The headlines keep coming.
Another healthcare organization fined for employing an excluded provider. A health plan forced to repay millions for claims tied to a sanctioned clinician. A large system struggling to maintain accreditation after auditors uncover serious compliance gaps in ... Read More
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Apr2026
Effective April 18, 2026, a new amendment to New York’s Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) dramatically limits how New York employers can use an applicant’s or employee’s credit history. In general, it will be unlawful for employers to request or use credit reports or any credit-related information in hiring, promotion, compensation, or other employment ... Read More
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Apr2026
Candidate Fraud and Identity in 2026: Getting It Right Without Breaking the Experience
If you lead a healthcare system or a healthcare staffing firm, you've almost certainly felt it by now: candidate fraud is no longer a fringe issue. It comes up in executive conversations every week.
From misrepresented experience and falsified ... Read More
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Mar2026
When a healthcare professional clears a background check, there is a natural sense of relief. The file looks complete. The criminal history is clean. The license checks out. The hire moves forward.
That moment of clearance can also be exactly where the risk begins.
A case recently highlighted by the Professional Background ... Read More
20
Mar2026
How embedded compliance in background screening protects healthcare staffing firms — without slowing down clinical hiring
There's a conversation happening in healthcare staffing organizations across the country, usually between a compliance manager and a recruiter, and it usually goes something like this:
"Did you remember to add the OIG sanctions check for ... Read More
10
Mar2026
Employers rely on criminal background checks to support safe workplaces, protect their organizations, and make informed hiring decisions. Many people assume criminal searches come from a single source. In reality, background screening uses several types of searches that work together to create a more complete view of criminal history information.
Two ... Read More
05
Mar2026
For years, background screening has centered on a single deliverable: the report. A candidate gets ordered, checks get run, data gets gathered, and out comes a bundled document covering everything from criminal records to occupational health results. In plenty of industries, that works fine. In healthcare staffing, it increasingly does ... Read More
