Daily Debriefing
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will require criminal background checks and drug tests for potential new employees beginning Sept. 1, the Valley News reported Thursday. DHMC adopted these regulations to match the policies of other hospitals nationwide, John Elliot, DHMC's director of employment and recruitment, told the Valley News. According to Elliot, the drug testing will be performed in-house, while the criminal background checks, which will go back seven to 10 years, will be performed by an outside company. DHMC officials will decide whether to offer positions to candidates who have criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis, depending on the nature of the offense.