Recruiting physicians is a costly and time intensive task for all medical facilities. Each time a medical professional is brought to a facility for an interview the recruitment budget is depleted. Bringing in a candidate, offering them a position, and negotiating a salary, sign-on bonus and moving expenses, only to find out that they are not eligible for a license in your state is a waste of valuable resources. A Background Verification study prior to an on-site visit could save valuable time and resources.
We have all heard stories about facilities bringing in providers for an on-site visit and later finding out the physician was not qualified for the position. Given the time and money spent on the site visit, a complete and thorough background check prior to the physician's arrival in your community is ALWAYS worthwhile.
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Judge says that violating the trust of a patient is a severe act
The judge said that by violating the trust of a patient this former nurse's aid deserved to go to prison. He was ordered to repay the $50,000 sign-on bonus he had received. Meanwhile he had treated more than 20 patients a day while the medical facility awaited his medical license information. The facility learned that the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners had no record of his medical license or of an application for medical licensure. He was immediately fired. This unlicensed physician told the court he had never told the facility he was a licensed physician as they negotiated his contract.
This story was widely publicized and the facility received a huge amount of bad publicity as a result. This is one incident where a simple background verification study would have notified the facility that they were dealing with an imposter.
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One such story describes a former nurse's aid who posed as a doctor and treated patients in a small clinic in Iowa. He was convicted of practicing medicine without a license and second-degree theft and given a five-year prison sentence .
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