According to a 2019 survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, workers in the healthcare industry accounted for 14 percent of the entire U.S. workforce.
These figures have all but grown following the pandemic, making the healthcare industry one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors in the country.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates that there will be around 193,000 job openings for nurses alone every year over the next decade. This industry growth presents unique challenges for healthcare recruiters and staffers. The combination of limited supply and a need for quality providers makes healthcare among the most challenging sectors to properly staff.
Reinforcing Your Onboarding Process
Of course, Peopletrail’s contribution to the healthcare industry is background, drug, and health screening.
A proper approach to the screening process can help remedy the supply and quality needs within the industry. While healthcare screening is a seemingly small piece of the process, we have seen firsthand how proper screening can quickly and dramatically influence the workforce health of an entire organization.
Here are five ways Peopletrail makes an impact that can be felt long after the hiring/onboarding phase of your new hire’s tenure.
1. Safety
In healthcare, there are a number of things to combat in order to remain safe, including:
- Healthcare fraud – Fraud costs the industry nearly 60 billion dollars every year.
- Malpractice – Nearly 85,000 malpractice lawsuits are filed against medical professionals each year.
- Breach of confidentiality – In 2022 alone, more than 52 million records were exposed.
- Workplace drug abuse – Physicians are five times more likely to abuse a drug than the general population.
The past can be a fair indication of the future. Over the years, Peopletrail has identified a number of non-authorized candidates as well as candidates with a history of professional misconduct. Identifying such misconduct requires expertise and due diligence that not all screening providers can offer.
Peopletrail not only provides healthcare organizations with comprehensive pre-hire screening solutions but also provides specialized, ongoing screening to help ensure safety. Such ongoing practices include continuous criminal monitoring, continuous employment monitoring, random drug screening, and reasonable suspicion drug screening. Carried out correctly and intentionally, these practices can drastically reduce incidences of fraud and drug abuse.
We can help to create and implement such programs within your organization.
2. Improved Vetting
As mentioned above, pre-hire screening can help identify professional misconduct.
However, a robust, properly-executed screening solution can also provide valuable insights into a candidate’s character, attitude, and past performance. While healthcare professionals may appear to be a good fit during the interview process, the story can change after their first day. Peopletrail works to combat this.
Leveraging solutions such as social media searches, past employment verifications, and personal/professional reference checks can make a tremendous difference when hiring healthcare professionals.
With Peopletrail, it’s not just the solution offered but how it is provided. As with everything, we do our due diligence to get hiring managers the information they need to make the most informed decisions possible. This can be seen in our verification outreach policies and quality assurance protocols.
3. Reduced Time-to-Hire
When workers are in high demand, quicker hiring is almost always better as long as quality isn’t sacrificed.
An organization with an efficient hiring process has a considerable advantage over others when it comes to onboarding top talent. Healthcare professionals rarely float their resume to just one organization. Since most healthcare networks have a need, the candidate often has the luxury of being selective. Thus, the slower your hiring process, the greater the likelihood of losing your candidates.
Peopletrail understands this.
We are committed to not being a bottleneck in your process. This commitment has allowed us to maintain an average healthcare screening completion time of just 1.7 (business) days nationally. While among the fastest in the industry, Peopletrail data is also quality-assured, detailed, compliant, and actionable.
4. Reduced Turnover
Peopletrail can provide specialized insights aimed at identifying healthcare professionals who are more likely to stay with your organization for a longer period of time.
While these insights are more useful pre-offer, they can also inform your post-offer process as well. Peopletrail provides customized solutions for both pre-offer vetting and post-offer screening needs.
For more information on how Peopletrail truly helps organizations reduce turnover, contact us.
5. A Professional Experience for Professional Candidates
As we always say, your screening vendor is an extension of your organization and owns a piece of the process that can either leave your new hire uneasy and frustrated or happily and quickly onboarded.
The candidate’s background screening experience can considerably impact their morale as they walk in the doors on their first day. A bad experience leaves a bad impression, often leading to a skeptical new hire.
Healthcare professionals are often more attuned to the screening process than your average candidate, making the need for a positive, informed experience all the more pressing.
Peopletrail makes your candidates a priority, providing the same level of support and care to candidates as we do our clients. When a call is made during support hours, we have a 99 percent response rate in four rings or less.
Additionally, Peopletrail offers an applicant portal where candidates can easily log in and see the status of their reports in real-time. This greatly mitigates potential confusion or frustration with regard to timelines.
How we treat your candidates is one of the ways we raise the healthcare screening bar.
Takeaways
The healthcare industry is unique, experiencing a tremendous amount of nuance. At Peopletrail, we understand this and have tailored powerful solutions specifically for healthcare recruiters, staffers, and hiring managers. We aim to improve your quality of hires, help shorten your onboarding timelines, help to reduce turnover, and mitigate risk as much as possible.
Peopletrail has become a national authority in proper healthcare screening practices through intention and dedication to each report. More importantly, Peopletrail has become a trusted provider of results.
