CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways to better recognize these workers. Workforce shortages have long been a challenge for clinical laboratories, but the […]
COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages
Key goals include a need to improve clinical laboratory recruitment and retention
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 - March 31, 2025 Issue
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