DATE: September 8, 2006 - Falls Church, Va.

Association and USIS team to help homes for the aging
Background screening eases hiring decisions and improves security

Some members of the nation's oldest generation, just when they should be feeling their safest, are being subjected to an element intent on harming them in homes for the aging.

What can be done to ensure that these homes are the safe havens that both residents and staff expect them to be? The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AASHA), which serves two million people through not-for-profit care facilities dedicated to providing a continuum of aging services through quality people can trust, is providing answers by offering its members "how to" information for developing a robust resident and employee screening program.

The free suggestions, provided by USIS's Commercial Services business, can help homes for the aging rethink background screening strategies. These strategies that can help ensure high quality care for the aged in our society can be found at http://www.aahsa.org/money_saving/gp_articles_info/default.asp

USIS's Commercial Services business, which is based in Tulsa, Okla., provides criminal records searches, credit reports, motor vehicle reports, employment and education verifications, drug testing, and other products which assist more than 33,000 customers across the U.S. in the healthcare, aviation, trucking, retail, insurance, and gaming industries.

Media Contact: Michael John: office 703.637.1694, mobile 703.343.3325, michael.john@usis.com
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USIS helps businesses, federal agencies, and institutions protect critical assets, evaluate information, and identify and mitigate risk by offering a broad range of services including business intelligence and risk management solutions, background investigations and drug screening solutions, security and related professional services including national security related staffing and training, and critical program support for institutions, commercial businesses, and federal agencies. The company's three divisions include the Investigative Services Division, the largest supplier of background investigations to the U.S. Government; the Commercial Services Division, a leading pre-employment and drug screening company that develops and uses the most comprehensive technology and resources available to commercial clients nationwide; and the Professional Services Division, which provides cleared personnel supporting critical federal programs. Formerly the Office of Federal Investigations (a U.S. government agency privatized in 1996), USIS is headquartered in Falls Church, Va., and has more than 7,000 employees supporting business operations in all 50 states and overseas. For more information, please visit www.usis.com