Background Check

If gung-ho prosecutors get a little more screen time around here while some of our usual sources close up shop for a couple weeks, don’t rush past. There are plenty of lessons to be learned.

Nursing home employees who didn’t get fingerprinted as part of a background check can keep their jobs, but they haven’t been allowed to care for residents since a deadline killing a COVID-era exemption...

Medicare Part D payments to skilled nursing facilities will face increased scrutiny over the next year from a federal watchdog agency.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, long-term care facilities must keep the ill and elderly safe even as their resources are stretched and staff turnover increases. With each new hire, there is a chance...

A janitor at a county-owned nursing home in upstate New York threatened to gun down two co-workers, the sheriff said Friday.

If you’ve ever seen the movie “Catch Me If You Can,” you’ve probably wondered how in the world the protagonist could get away with his scheme of working jobs he had no qualifications...

NEW JERSEY – Untold amounts of money have been pilfered from nursing home residents’ funds by those entrusted to protect them, and little government oversight exists to prevent it. This is...

A man used a false identity to gain employment at a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility where he worked for six years, authorities in Tennessee have charged.

Prosecutors say that Jeffrey Lamont Reid, 23, shoved his supervisor into a wall when in her office to sign his termination papers, according to local reports. He then tried to attack another woman in the...

Six states are set to share in $14 million in grants for creating comprehensive, streamlined background check systems for long-term care employees.