For several years, the job market rewarded staying put. Layoff headlines, hiring freezes and economic uncertainty made even dissatisfied employees reluctant to move. That caution is fading, and the people most likely to leave now are often the ones a ... Read More
Category: Risk Management
Multi-state license tracking looks simple from a distance. Up close, it is one of the quietest sources of risk in legal hiring.
When a lateral partner joins a firm with active admissions in four states, the assumption is usually that someone, ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
The Exposure Is Different Here
Every industry has reasons to screen candidates carefully. Healthcare has more of them, and the consequences of getting it wrong are more severe. Hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, and behavioral health providers employ people ... Read More
Ask most HR leaders whether their screening program includes a criminal background check, and the answer is almost always yes. Ask whether it covers a candidate who lived in three states over the past decade, worked remotely before joining, or ... Read More
The Assumption Built Into Most Screening Programs
For a long time, background screening programs have been built around a fairly reasonable-sounding idea: if you have a candidate's Social Security number, you have what you need to find their history. One identifier. ... Read More
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