COLA Re-enters CLIA Accreditation for Pathology

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

  CEO SUMMARY: COLA again h…

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September 23, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 13 – September 23, 2019 Issue

Spectra Laboratories, a division of the national dialysis company Fresenius Medical Care, will soon open a new 200,000 square foot laboratory facility in Memphis. The new lab will employ more than 300 people and will be located only 15 minutes from the Memphis Intern…

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December 7, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue

Last week, a joint laboratory accreditation agreement was announced by AABB and the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). The two associations will now collaborate to allow labs to obtain three assessments under one effort, including AABB accredit…

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Achieving CLIA, ISO 15189 at Same Time with A2LA

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 3 – February 17, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An interesting milestone for the clinical lab industry is on the horizon. Physicians Choice Laboratory Services in South Carolina will soon become one of the first lab organizations in the United States to earn joint CLIA and ISO 15189 accreditations with the America…

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Top 10 2014 Biggest News Stories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue

Story no.1 SGR Fix by Congress Spawns PAMA; Lab Industry Wary of Law’s Impact ON APRIL 1, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). As written, it has the potential to be the most impactful federal legislation on the clinical lab industry s…

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October 13, 2014 “Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 14 – October 13, 2014 Issue

Quality management systems (QMS) have made inroads in some of the organizations that accredit clinical laboratories in the United States to the requirements of CLIA. Last month, COLA of Columbia, Maryland, acknowledged that it had recertified to the standards of ISO 9001: 2008. The r…

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CMS Gives Deemed Status to A2LA under CLIA Law

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 5 – April 7, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Quietly published in the March 25 issue of the Federal Register was a notice that CMS had granted deeming authority for CLIA to the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). This action gives laboratories in the United States a new choice to meet the accredita…

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Caris Life Sciences Achieves Accreditation to ISO 15189

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 3 – February 24, 2014 Issue

IN DECIDING TO PURSUE ACCREDITATION TO ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories, Caris Life Sciences considered the international benefits of this designation. It was December when Caris Life Sciences of Irving, Texas, announced that it had earned accreditation to ISO 15189 from the …

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Spectra Lab in Milpitas Accredits to ISO 15189

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Spectra Laboratories, Inc., a renal-specific testing services company with labs in New Jersey and California, announced earlier this month that the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation awarded accreditation to ISO 1589 to its laboratory in Milpitas, California. I…

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TriCore Earns Multi-Site CAP 15189 Accreditation

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 13 – September 26, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To achieve the goals of continuous improvement and standardization across all facilities within its organization, TriCore Reference Laboratories opted to implement the CAP 15189 quality management system (QMS). Last month, the lab announced its accreditation to CAP 1…

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