Safety, efficacy and efficiency are fundamental to quality laboratory work and ensuring trust in the public health laboratory system. APHL provides expertise, facilitation, coordination and resources to support quality and safety practices, such as quality management systems, continuous quality improvement, regulations and accreditations.
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APHL provides guidance and resources on quality management system (QMS)-related regulations and accreditations, quality system essentials (QSEs), continuous quality improvement (CQI) and workflow design/re-design to help public health laboratories operate with optimal safety, efficacy and efficiency.
Regional Consortia are informal, geographically-based groups of laboratories that allow members to share testing services, expert guidance and resources. Grounded in professional relationships and governed by informal agreements, these consortia offer participants many opportunities for support, training and collaboration.
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APHL is a Healthy People Champion, and we work to ensure vital public health laboratory issues are captured in the goals are included in each decade’s plan. For Healthy People 2030, we helped create two Public Health Infrastructure developmental objectives: an assessment of public health laboratory services and the use of emerging technology.
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The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) statute revised the federal program for certification and oversight of clinical laboratory testing to ensure accurate, reliable and timely diagnostic test results, no matter where testing is performed. We maintain an extensive catalogue of resources to help public health laboratories meet CLIA requirements.
Explore our CLIA resourcesThe ​​Laboratory Systems and Standards Committee promotes the sustainability of public health laboratory systems and improves the accuracy and reliability of laboratory results and services by developing tools and resources to optimize laboratory performance.
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) established quality standards for laboratory testing performed on human clinical specimens, for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention or treatment of disease, or assessment of health. APHL maintains extensive resources to ensure laboratories can maintain their CLIA certifications.
The following provides guidance for hiring qualified staff and helping them achieve the necessary skills to do their jobs.
