In today’s complex healthcare landscape, background screening is more than a regulatory checkbox—it’s essential to patient safety, organizational trust, and operational excellence. This session empowers HR and talent acquisition leaders to move beyond risk aversion and build confident, effective screening strategies tailored to healthcare. We’ll explore key challenges such as regulatory complexity, workforce mobility, misaligned expectations, and the pressure to deliver fast candidate experiences without sacrificing diligence. Attendees will gain practical guidance on balancing thoroughness with turnaround time, avoiding compliance pitfalls, aligning HR and clinical teams, and managing costs. This actionable, executive-level session provides the frameworks and best practices needed to strengthen screening programs and support safer hires.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the knowledge gaps, misconceptions, and misalignment that prevent strategies to harmonize background screening across departments and roles, reduce compliance gaps and support safer, more consistent hiring decisions.
2. Gain actionable insights to improve candidate experience while maintaining regulatory diligence, including how to minimize turnaround times and communicate clearly with stakeholders.
3. Understand the true cost drivers of healthcare background screening and learn how to optimize budgets and educate HR teams for smarter, more effective program management.
Webinar participants are eligible to receive 1 SHRM professional development credit (PDC)
WisHHRA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
