There has been an ongoing debate about conducted more comprehensive background checks for home care workers.  As studies have revealed significant numbers of abuses, there is a greater incentive to screen home care workers who tend to the needs, usually, of older citizens and children. However, the economic downturn has given some governmental agencies pause. [...]

The  News Tribune in the Seattle area just reported that the most violent job in the metropolitan district is not a police officer or fireman.  No, cops and fireman are relatively safe compared to what is really the most violent job in the city.   A nurse’s aid.  That’s right. A nurse’s aid. According to [...]

The quantity of abuses found in healthcare are legion.   It’s really kind of nuts when you allow for abuses against the elderly and children,  theft, be it stealing for patients or stealing drugs.   There is physical abuse and mental abuse.   In some cases, patients enter healthcare facilities and emerge perhaps in worst shape than [...]

As the controversy on employment credit reports and their discriminating effects as a background check continues around the country, the State of Maryland has  imposed restriction on employment related credit reports.  House Bill 29 has been combined with Senate Bill 132 will restrict an employer’s use of the employment credit background check as a consideration for hiring. Maryland has [...]