Advanced Background Check Services for Healthcare

Getting a complete picture of a candidate’s criminal history is often more complex than people think. At Sterling, we make it easy for you to make fast, more accurate, and safer hiring decisions through a combination of robust services, solutions, and technology. Our innovative approach to criminal background checks for healthcare workers allows us to:

• Uncover more criminal activity
• Gain direct access to national criminal records
• Deliver accurate results quickly

Sterling’s Clinical Concierge provides a ‘white-glove’ service specifically for healthcare organization’s unique clinical program requirements. We provide the necessary coordination of required services for candidates, as well as tracking proof of verification and documentation, and following through to the completion of the services, enabling us to reduce processing turnaround time on average from 16 days to 4-7 days.

Maintaining a safe and productive work environment is critical for businesses and employees. Sterling’s Drug and Health Screening services offer robust pre- and post-hire drug screening to help your company stay compliance-focused and meet work policy requirements. Our healthcare experts help clients navigate the array of drug testing methodologies to create a customized, scalable program to address their evolving needs.

Sterling’s medical sanctions and exclusions monitoring solution helps organizations reduce risk and administrative burden. We provide proactive daily searches of enrolled subjects against sanctions and exclusions lists, and employers receive notifications so that you can identify and react to a licensing status change in days, not months.

Make sure you know who you’re hiring with the support of industry-leading pre-employment verifications backed by a powerful fulfillment engine. Sterling’s medical background check for employment verification delivers fast, detailed confirmations of a candidate’s educational background, job history, and other credentials so you can be confident in every new hire.

Sterling offers fingerprinting services as a biometric check for identity purposes, and to screen candidates for employment and promotions. Sterling Identity offers a national network of hundreds of collection sites, certified with the FBI, AHCA, and NMLS to submit electronic fingerprints directly. Sterling’s fingerprinting services uses digital fingerprint capture technology that reduces rejection rates and speeds up processing time, with an average turnaround time of less than 24 hours.

Identity Verification is designed to help you mitigate risk through a simple process where candidates verify that the information they provided about themselves, such as their name and date of birth, is indeed their own. This allows employers to verify that candidates are in fact who they claim to be. In any situation where remote verification is needed, both accuracy and reliable technology play critical roles.

Whether your organization is looking to onboard service providers as quickly and safely as possible or you use a proprietary HR platform, Sterling offers highly configurable API options with dedicated support to help you create a seamless brand experience. We provide our clients with:

• Access to a robust suite of services
• Global availability for sustainable growth
• On-demand approach with progressive workflows