{"id":17,"date":"2011-04-08T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tdtffc.com\/ephc\/news\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T22:27:46","slug":"ephcs-clinical-lab-aces-recent-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/ephcs-clinical-lab-aces-recent-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"EPHC&#8217;s Clinical Lab aces recent inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EPHC\u2019s Lab Manager, Bill Carlson, has reason to celebrate. At this week\u2019s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) inspection of the laboratory facility, a process that can last up to three days, the inspector was so impressed with what he saw that he completed his inspection in a single morning. <\/p>\n<p>Carlson explained that every two years, CLIA evaluates the lab, looking at the myriad of quality control data (including daily control studies and monthly evaluations during which Carlson checks for any accuracy problems and corrects them), proficiency testing, instrumentation testing, and more. The state also makes sure that all lab personnel are properly licensed and qualified to perform these tests.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the support of the staff, this successful inspection wouldn\u2019t have been possible,\u201d said Carlson. Appearing with him in the photo is Clinical Lab Scientist (CLS) Supervisor, Alison Shelley. Lab staff includes CLS\u2019s Dean Rinde and Lorie Carlson, and lab assistants, Toni Wing and Jennifer Armstrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPHC\u2019s Lab Manager, Bill Carlson, has reason to celebrate. At this week\u2019s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) inspection of the laboratory facility, a process that can last up to three days, the inspector was so impressed with what he saw that he completed his inspection in a single morning. Carlson explained that every two years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}