CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs nationwide face worsening staffing shortages across all roles. Stanford Health Care’s Jennifer Fralick outlines strategies to retain talent and improve efficiency, such as career ladders and top-of-skills staffing. By aligning tasks with skill levels and using data-driven business cases for new hires, diagnostic labs can sustain operations amid ongoing labor challenges. […]
How Stanford Tackles the Lab Labor Shortage
There are innovative ways to engage employees, streamline workflows, and build talent pipelines
- By Janette Wider
- > From the Volume XXXII, No. 16 - November 17, 2025 Issue
- Tags: clinical laboratory scientists, CLS, COVID-19, Executive War College on Diagnostics Clinical Laboratory and Pathology Management, Jennifer Fralick, lab intelligence, medical laboratory technician, MLT, pandemic, pathologist, pathology assistant, staffing shortage, Stanford Health Care, top-of-skills
