Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In June 2022, the “Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act” (Senate Bill 4381) was reintroduced in the United States Senate to provide nursing home operators with access to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) that offers a national criminal background check system, according to a press release…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 18, 2022, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed Senate Bill 1242 (SB 1242) into law to strengthen background checks for individuals who want to work at nursing care facilities in the state, according to a news release on the Governor’s website that listed all 19 bills…
Proposed legislation in New York for an “Elder Care Facility Sex Offender Law” would require senior care facilities to conduct criminal background checks for all employees using the state’s sex offender registry to prevent registered sex offenders from gaining employment. More information about the proposed bill from New York State Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I-Glenville) and…
A recent investigation by WKYC-TV NBC Channel 3 News in Cleveland, Ohio found that consumers should closely check the backgrounds of home health caregivers before allowing them into their homes after reporting stories of theft by in home caregivers, including one case where $25,000 in cash was stolen from a home safe. Overall, the state…
In response to a government investigation that revealed more than nine out of ten nursing homes hired criminals, San Francisco, California-area Employment Screening Resources (ESR) – a background screening company accredited by The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) – has released background check toolkit for nursing homes and home health care to help…
Attorney, author, and safe hiring expert Les Rosen, founder and President of San Francisco, CA-area background screening company Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will discuss background checks for home health care workers at a free community forum at the San Rafael Community Center in San Rafael, California on Thursday, March 10, 2011.
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Editor An Indiana provider has been hit with $376,000 in penalties – which Indiana officials call one of the biggest fines of its kind – for employing several individuals at nursing homes who either had been convicted of criminal offenses or stripped of their licenses. According to a news report, the…
by Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Staff Writer A case against a Kentucky nursing home may reveal holes in laws meant to protect nursing home residents since the state only requires criminal background checks for employees caring directly for nursing home residents but not background checks for nursing home support staff like maintenance workers. According to…
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