Group One background checks in Texas

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I have been put into group one, which is a reporting agency that allows other healthcare facilitys to see why I was terminated. I was not given a chance to resign before termination. My question is, can I request to have it changed? Is this a type of discrimination? all this is making me want to get out of healthcare all together, seems like i will allways have a disadvantage being a guy and all.

try this link:

https://www.diamondvoice.net/groupone/clientlist.asp

It is not a complete list, however, many fort worth facilities use them also and they are not listed.

Hi! id also like to know if i can take a look at this group one report, just like we can have a free copy of a credit report. dont we have a right to obtain it before we go apply ? how can i do that?

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Hi! id also like to know if i can take a look at this group one report, just like we can have a free copy of a credit report. dont we have a right to obtain it before we go apply ? how can i do that?

Yes, they fall under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the same law that requires credit reporting agencies to issue reports on request.

But, unless you've worked for a Group One facility, you won't have a report to see.

This issue is that, because the member hospitals belong to Group One, they are a 'confederacy' of agencies. Sharing such info, by this reckoning, is no more intrusive then a hospital sharing such info internally.

~faith,

Timothy.

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I work in a small hospital just east of Dallas, but I have worked in dallas hospitals before. I just heard of Group one. Can someone explain what this is?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Group One is a consumer reporting agency that maintains a "blacklist" of nurses in the DFW metroplex. Nurses whose names have landed on this supposed "blacklist" have extreme difficulties finding employment in DFW hospitals.

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I am a new RN in TX; I graduated in may and got my licence this oct. I have been hearing about GROUP ONE; what is group one ? what type of record or info. goes into group one. Are graduate nurses and CNAs included in group one too? Is it public record or do you have to subscribe to it? Please reply.:uhoh3:

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

There are numerous long threads on this BB about Group One - please use search.

Group One lists itself as a "credit agency" which permits it to handle records in a different manner than a reference service or a former employer. This allows it to discuss details of employment that are normally "blocked"or not passed on.

While this can be a good thing in some cases, in a "right to work" state where one can be fired or passed over for most any reason, it can also be seriously misused. Take also into account that many of "subscribers" (employers that pay fees for the reference service as well as contributing information on employees) tend to be forprofit chains, such as those associated with Columbia/HCA. People may get blackballed for things such as inadequate notice of intent to leave, after accepting a job, then finding that it was not it was billed, and quiting. In addition, in nursing, one often gets "let go" for one official reason, when the real reason may be related to intangibles such as personality clashes with management, being an activist for better conditions, etc. Then one gets listed as fired - not eligible for rehire....effectively cutting off jobs for the entire network of Group One subscribers.

People use incidents such as the murders perpetrated by C. Cullen (a nurse serial killer that went from facility to facility, w/inadequate info sent to employers) to justify this. But it gets abused by Group One.

All HCWers working in a Group One subscriber facility....can be reviewed by them. I know of some cases of PCTs that have been blackballed, thus I think that GNs and CNAs would also be reviewed by them if working in a subscriber facility.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I am a new RN in TX; I graduated in may and got my licence this oct. I have been hearing about GROUP ONE; what is group one ? what type of record or info. goes into group one. Are graduate nurses and CNAs included in group one too? Is it public record or do you have to subscribe to it? Please reply.:uhoh3:
Unless you intend to live and work as an RN or LVN in the DFW metro area (and surrounding counties), you do not have to worry about GroupOne (yet). GroupOne is not being used in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, or any other areas in Texas yet. Their main sphere of influence is in the DFW area.
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Specializes in ER, PACU, CORRECTIONAL HEALTH, FLIGHT.

what a shame........if they are relying on this as an indicator of hiring nurses, they might be missing out on some good ones. there are good nurses who just happen to end up working in a bad environment or with poor management or unethical practices etc..........and to blackball them based on ONE entry into the database? how horribly sad...

Unless you intend to live and work as an RN or LVN in the DFW metro area (and surrounding counties), you do not have to worry about GroupOne (yet). GroupOne is not being used in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, or any other areas in Texas yet. Their main sphere of influence is in the DFW area.
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Specializes in Critical Care.

I know this is an old thread, but I just had to post.

I haven't ever heard of Group One until today, but if group one operates under the Fair Credit and Reporting Act they can only report information for up to 7 years. If they report any longer than that all you need to do is write a letter demanding that they remove the remark, if they don't then turn them in to the AG's office.

Also, if a nurse quits her job without notice she can actually lose her licence for abandonment so being on someones blacklist may not be such a bad thing.

Texas nurses need to envoke safe harbor before they abandon their position IMNSHO.

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I know this is an old thread, but I just had to post.

I haven't ever heard of Group One until today, but if group one operates under the Fair Credit and Reporting Act they can only report information for up to 7 years. If they report any longer than that all you need to do is write a letter demanding that they remove the remark, if they don't then turn them in to the AG's office.

Also, if a nurse quits her job without notice she can actually lose her licence for abandonment so being on someones blacklist may not be such a bad thing.

Texas nurses need to envoke safe harbor before they abandon their position IMNSHO.

I have to respectfully disagree with you on what constitutes patient abandonment. If a nurse were to leave suddenly in the middle of her/his shift-YES, that would be patient abandonment; but, to resign a position without notice does not. A nurse that has given report does not have any patients; therefore, there is no patient(s) to abandon if she/he were not to come back to work. Texas is a right-to-work state and the law states that neither the employer or the employee are required to give any notice to the other-so, quitting one's job when one does not have a patient assigned to them, cannot be considered anything more than abandoning the job (not abandoning a nonexisting patient) & poses no risk whatsoever to the nurse's license.

Also, I thought the only thing that had to be removed from a credit report after 7 years was a filing for bancruptcy. I was not aware of the change to allow all information to be deleted after 7 years. Providing a link to reference this would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, another thing, safe harbor can only be invoked for a particular patient situation to protect the nurse from a possible sanction on the license if that particular assignment (patient specific) posed a risk to an action being brought against the nurse's license. It cannot be invoked as a generalization to the work environment and must be patient specific. One's position does not qualify as having a specific patient, so safe harbor cannot be invoked for leaving a position. And, invoking safe harbor means that initially the hospital's peer review commitee will take up the issue-I don't think you can be peer reviewed for wanting to adhere to the state law that does not require that prior notice be given of the intent to leave one's job/position.

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I know this is an old thread, but I just had to post.

I haven't ever heard of Group One until today, but if group one operates under the Fair Credit and Reporting Act they can only report information for up to 7 years. If they report any longer than that all you need to do is write a letter demanding that they remove the remark, if they don't then turn them in to the AG's office.

Also, if a nurse quits her job without notice she can actually lose her licence for abandonment so being on someones blacklist may not be such a bad thing.

Texas nurses need to envoke safe harbor before they abandon their position IMNSHO.

This is exactly what happened to the Phillipino nurses on Long Isalnd, in NYS. They were employed in a nursing home, I think that it was part of the Sentara Group, had deplorable working conditions, were not paid what they had been promised, and quit, en masse at the end of their shift.

Now, the DA, after being indebted to Sentara for many political contributions ($$$$$), sided with the nursing home and pressed criminal charges against these nurses. The last I checked, it was not illegale to quit your job.

The nurses are being charged with "patient abanondment", if you can believe that. Anyway, this is still being played out in the courts. I believe that the NYS BON and the ANA, has sided with the nurses. It will be interesting to see what the outcome of this is.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Spokane, Washington

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This is exactly what happened to the Phillipino nurses on Long Isalnd, in NYS. They were employed in a nursing home, I think that it was part of the Sentara Group, had deplorable working conditions, were not paid what they had been promised, and quit, en masse at the end of their shift.

Now, the DA, after being indebted to Sentara for many political contributions ($$$$$), sided with the nursing home and pressed criminal charges against these nurses. The last I checked, it was not illegale to quit your job.

The nurses are being charged with "patient abanondment", if you can believe that. Anyway, this is still being played out in the courts. I believe that the NYS BON and the ANA, has sided with the nurses. It will be interesting to see what the outcome of this is.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Spokane, Washington

I live in Long Island right now and I heard on the local cable station news that only the nurses that walked off their shift at midnight were actually charged with patient abandonment. The rest were being charged with breach of contract and some trumped up charges related to care rendered to patients before the walk out. The company puts adds in Newsday every week for nurses-wonder why they can't get enough help :nono:

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