The pathologist is professionally responsible and legally accountable for laboratory results. To prepare for this responsibility the pathologist must complete a lengthy medical residency program. Moreover, Federal certification standards and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards require certain professional, organizational and administrative services be provided in the clinical laboratory to assure quality laboratory services to patients.

In addition to the direct diagnostic services mentioned here, Pathologist directors of hospital laboratories spend a significant amount of time and effort in fulfilling their responsibility to the patient for quality laboratory services.


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Our pathologists provide diagnostic services in the following fields:

Surgical Pathology
Cytopathology
Hematopathology
Flow Cytometry
Molecular Diagnostics
Microbiology
Transfusion Medicine

The pathologist-director of a hospital clinical laboratory provides professional services in:
 
Assuring that tests, examinations, and procedures are properly performed, recorded and reported;
 
Interacting with members of the medical staff regarding issues of laboratory operations, quality, and test availability;
 
Designing protocols and establishing parameters for performance of clinical testing;
 
Supervising laboratory technicians and advising technicians regarding aberrant results;
  Selecting, evaluating, and validating test methodologies;
 
Directing, performing, and evaluating quality assurance and control procedures;
 
Evaluating clinical laboratory data and establishing a process for review of test results prior to issuance of patient reports;
 

Assuring the hospital laboratory's compliance with state licensure laws, Medicare conditions, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards, the College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program and federal certification standards.