Although I agree that background checks should be done on employees of Assisted Living Facilities, I think that having to have them notarized and having to wait sometimes over a month for these to be returned is a little much. There are times when we send these into the state police that it takes over thirty days to get them back. We have called before when this has happened, tried to explain the person on the phone that we only have thirty days to get these back or we will receive a citation the reply that we have gotten more often than not is "we have 45 days to process this, so that is not our problem" 

Another issue that we have is that we are waiting for the background checks to be returned we are to pay two people to do one person job because the new hire has to be within site of a coworker at all times. We should be able to submit this background check on line and be able to get the results electronically instead of having to wait for the original to be returned to facility.