Criminal Background Check Legislation to Protect Michigan's Most Vulnerable Adults

Here’s a stunning stat from this article: one of every 10 Certified Nurse’s Aides had outstanding criminal warrants!

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox today announced that legislation designed to protect Michigan's seniors and vulnerable adults in residential care facilities has been sent to the governor.  The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Patricia Birkholz (R – Saugatuck Twp.), and Sen. Tony Stamas (R – Midland), is intended to enhance laws regarding criminal background checks for prospective residential care facility employees.

After Cox’s Health Care Fraud Division uncovered that 25% of residential care facility employees committing crimes against residents since 2002 had past criminal convictions, he commissioned the statewide studies. Of the more than 5,500 Certified Nurse’s Aides (CNAs) studied, 9% had a total of 836 outstanding criminal warrants and 3%, or 170, had past criminal convictions. These results were confirmed when the backgrounds of entire employee populations  at four nursing homes across Michigan revealed 58 of 618 employees, or more than 9%, had 101 outstanding warrants, and that 68, or 11%, of the staffs had past criminal convictions.

More: AG website

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