Advanced Topic: Health Care Organization Background Check Policies

Advanced Topic: Health Care Organization Background Check Policies
How to Draft, Implement and Maintain a Compliant Background Check Policy

Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018
1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific

In order to comply with applicable background check laws and best practices, all employers, including health care, should have a sound and legally compliant background check policy. In background check litigation, it is often “Exhibit A” in the health care organization’s defense. Unfortunately, the policies in place may be old, without consistent application and/or without proper language to account for today’s complex background checks. This is an advanced training on drafting a policy — not intended as a general primer for those who do not get into the nuts and bolts of the subject at hand.

Known speaker and consumer reporting law expert N. Alexander Erlam, Esq., general counsel of Certiphi Screening, Inc., will provide general guidance on background check laws and policies, and will clarify “grey areas” such as Accelerated Rehabilitative Dispositions (ARD) and how those “quasi-convictions” should be treated in a sound background check policy. Alex will share up-to-date information on how to properly draft a background check policy and best practices to implement it throughout the organization. In this webinar, attendees will receive a sample background check policy and gain key takeaways from a discussion of litigation cases surrounding background check policy.

This important and timely webinar will be applicable to all health care organizations wrestling with background check policies.

Speaker:

N. Alexander Erlam
General Counsel
Certiphi Screening, Inc.
Warminster, Pa.