Long-term Care: How CMS Can Fund Your Employee Screening
$25 million should put a little muscle back into weak background check systems.Extra funding could be flowing in that will make sure bad apples stay out of long-term care facilities. That is, if states get their applications in by September 20. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Justice are ready to go with a pilot program that will identify "best practices" for long term care providers in determining whether job applicants have any criminal history or other background issues that could make them unfit to work directly...
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