A Collaboration to Launch Leading Laboratories Recognition Program to Aid in Boosting Quality Patient Care
The Leading Laboratories Recognition Program, which was created by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and The Joint Commission, encourages laboratory leadership and raises awareness of the medical laboratory team’s collaborative efforts within clinical colleagues, hospital leadership, and patients. The distinction serves as a mark of laboratory excellence and gives a laboratory’s significant contributions to bettering patient outcomes visible and public acknowledgment.
Acknowledging Leadership and Commitment
The recognition, which is offered to Joint Commission-accredited labs, also attests to a laboratory’s dependable leadership and dedication to continuous professional growth of its staff, both of which are essential to the sustained provision of efficient, high-quality treatment.
E. Blair Holladay, PhD, MASCP, SCT(ASCP)CM, CEO of ASCP, expressed that ASCP and The Joint Commission are acknowledged as leaders in healthcare and laboratory services, with a primary focus on patient well-being. They are renowned for their commitment to ensuring ongoing enhancement of quality through established measurements, and they both share the goal of improving and enhancing patient outcomes.
Laboratory leaders created and improved Leading Laboratories. The designation is obtained through the fulfillment of a set of requirements intended to measure and demonstrate a given laboratory’s capacity to produce high-quality results, ensure professional growth, exercise trustworthy leadership, and increase laboratory visibility.
Recognizing Collaborative Excellence
According to Heather Hurley, executive director, Laboratory Accreditation, The Joint Commission, the Leading Laboratories designation offers higher visibility to differentiate the collaborative work of medical laboratory teammates in a way that brings value to their establishment and public recognition of their important achievements.
The Leading Laboratories Recognition Program aims to accomplish the following for the two organizations:
- Encourage and emphasize the growth of team members and individuals in order to create stronger, more resilient laboratory teams;
- Gain consideration from the pathology and laboratory medicine community;
- Advance medical laboratories in relation to the greater clinical care team, their corporations, or their health care systems; and
- Raise patients’ and the public’s consciousness of the importance of healthcare laboratories.
Dr. Holladay predicted that as a recognized program coupled with The Joint Commission Laboratory Accreditation Program, Leading Laboratories will rise to the level of the organizational C-suite and coordinate with important stakeholders. These stakeholders involve payers, businesses, authorities, teams of experts, prospective learners, new graduates, and professionals, as well as patients, healthcare providers, and laboratory leaders.
On their path to receiving this accreditation, laboratories can use the model and roadmap provided by the Leading Laboratories Recognition Program. In addition to confirming laboratories’ crucial role in the continuum of care across every aspect of healthcare, the recognition program will assist ASCP and The Joint Commission’s common purpose of patient safety and quality.
Finally on October 27, 2021, submissions for the Leading Laboratories Recognition Program will start to be accepted. Visit leadinglaboratories.org for additional information.
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